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Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Sadie Robertson from Duck Dynasty reveals she was robbed and her car vandalized when with her kids
Duck Dynasty star Sadie Robertson Huff revealed on Thursday that she and her husband Christian Huff were robbed. The crime happened during a recent family trip. 'It's so sad too because we had our car seats and strollers and diaper bag in [a car that was robbed],' Sadie, 28, told WHOA That's Good Podcast. 'Of course, they didn't steal any of that, which I'm thankful for, but I'm like, that's so low. You know you're stealing from a family with kids.' The pregnant Duck Dynasty star was scheduled to speak at the Forward religious conference in Atlanta. Once in Atlanta, they stopped to get something to eat and that is when the robbery occurred. 'We go in [to the restaurant] and we're just like, "OK, let's just take a breath. This has been, like, a stressful couple of hours,"' she recalled after they almost missed their flight and their daughter suffered a nosebleed. But then things got worse: 'Obviously, that didn't really go as planned.' When they left the restaurant they noticed their car windows were 'completely busted in' and their backpacks were stolen. '[Our backpacks] had a lot of important things in there, including all of our family's passports … they stole [Christian's] actual [driver's] license, all of Christian's credit cards, they stole his Bible that he's had forever … I mean, it was sad,' she admitted. It was unsettling to her that the robbers noticed car seats in the car and still went ahead and stole from the young family. 'I just hate to think about them seeing [daughters] Honey and Haven's little faces on that passport,' she shared. 'It just makes me so mad!' Christian added, 'We also prayed that the fear of God would fall upon them.' Roberts hoped that the robbers 'would be vomiting' over the guilt they must feel. 'I prayed [this] would lead them to repentance and they would open Christian's Bible and start reading it and feel the fear of the Lord,' she stated. 'I don't know if any of that happened.' Having shattered windows also meant they had to drive that way all the way to Atlanta. 'The girls were scared,' Sadie said. 'Honey was very scared because she was like, "Bad guys broke our windows and took Daddy's stuff?" She was so worried about Daddy's stuff. … It was so sad. We just had to talk to her a lot about why someone would do that.' That led to Robertson having to explain to her daughter that some people are not kind. '[It was] also an opportunity to show her our faith and what we believe about God and for us to be steady,' she noted. 'I think, if it wouldn't have been for the kids, I would have been a lot more scared.' Robertson is expecting her third baby with Christian. They already have daughter Honey, born in May 2021, and Haven, born in May 2023. 'Our hearts are so full,' Robertson wrote via Instagram at the time. 'Another little love joining the Huff family.' Her grandfather Phil died in May at age 79. Sadie rose to fame on her family's reality show Duck Dynasty, which aired from 2012 to 2017. The show centered on patriarch Phil Robertson, his wife, Marsha 'Miss Kay,' and their family as they oversaw Phil's multi-million dollar duck call empire. Sadie is the daughter of show stars, Willie and Korie Robertson. The show will now be returning to small screens, with A&E recently announcing Duck Dynasty: The Revival, a two-season, 20-episode order set to premiere this summer. The new chapters will spotlight Willie and Korie Robertson, now surrounded by their growing family of adult children and grandchildren, as the next generation focuses on the family's Duck Commander business. Fans of the beloved series, which once ruled cable TV as its biggest unscripted hit, can look forward to the return of Uncle Si and Miss Kay Robertson, alongside Willie and Korie's kids—John Luke, Sadie, Will Jr., Bella, and Rebecca.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Pistons forward Ron Holland explains where his game has grown over the summer
Pistons second-year forward Ron Holland speaks about his summer improvement July 13, 2025 in Las Vegas at NBA Summer League.
Scoop
19-07-2025
- Business
- Scoop
'Thriving' Māori Economies Revealed In New Report
16 July 2025 , Henare te Ua Māori Journalism Intern The Māori economy is "thriving", recent statistics have revealed, but a new report shows Māori businesses do not always measure their success monetarily. According to the prior Te Ōhanga Māori 2023 report, Māori entities grew from contributing $17 billion to New Zealand's GDP in 2018 to $32 billion in 2023, turning a 6.5 percent contribution to GDP into 8.9 percent. The Māori economy asset base has grown from $69 billion in 2018 to $126 billion in 2023 - an increase of 83 percent. Released on Wednesday by the Wellbeing Economy Alliance Aoteaora, the Amplifying Māori approaches: The transformative potential of Māori economies report from lead author Matthew Scobie (Kāi Tahu) and co-author Tayla Forward (Ngāpuhi), suggests Māori economies revolved around "taonga with labour organised through mahi and reciprocal exchanges based on utu", or repayment. Forward, a researcher in economics and political economy based in Tāmaki Makaurau, said the Māori economy was "big, thriving and active". "But what that captures is sort of different. Are we thinking about Māori businesses that are operating in the usual dominant economic system, or are we talking about something that takes place according to Māori logic? "Considering there's parts of the economy that are taking place on a different logic in the dominant system, that's the Māori economy that we're most interested in unleashing, that's the part that is an expression of mana motuhake Māori." There was not much that separated the Māori economy from the contemporary setting; it was just an umbrella-term used for authorities, businesses, and employers who self-identified as Māori. But it was more than that. While an economy revolved around the production and consumption of goods and services and the supply of money, Māori businesses often built off tikanga, or Māori lore, to help their communities - such as iwi and hapū, and beyond. "We talk a lot in this report about the ways that those pursuing pakihi Māori (Māori business) have to take on these hybrid strategies to strategically navigate the dominant system," Forward said. "Instead of just aiming to increase our share in the dominant system, we take up a demand to change the shape of the dominant system, and those things that currently sit beneath the surface of the dominant system can be unleashed." There were four case studies prominent in the report - each an example of "Māori logic" combined with old and new ways of business, providing perspectives on housing, food sovereignty, trading and iwi authority, respectively. "They strike up against the system, they strike up against pūtea, and the need to sort of go between worlds all the time." Does Māori logic work? A case study by Danielle Webb focused on Kelly Francis' Whenua Warrior charitable trust. In 2017, Francis left her corporate job to grow an edible garden accessible to every New Zealander and feed the community. The not-for-profit organisation used hua parakore (kaupapa Māori framework) and matauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) for mahinga kai, community engagement, environmental conservation and preservation. Within two days of Francis' first project under Whenua Warrior, 132 gardens cropped up across South Auckland. "The world is our oyster anyway, so we can do what we should be able to do," Forward said. The report stated Francis viewed waged labour as something that can potentially rob people of time that could be spent nurturing te taiao (the natural world), fundamental to food sovereignty. "We should be able to have particularly Māori responses to decisions about what we're creating together and how we resource each other and the things that we create together, and if that keeps having to be mediated by pūtea, that's not in our control," Forward said. "We have to make all these strategic allowances to navigate towards whatever ends we're trying to pursue with our economic activity. If we want to have this very whenua-oriented and whakapapa-oriented economic ends being served by our economic practices, then we need to engage with the system that generates the constraints." An economy of mana - what is it? The report broke the Māori economy into subsections - economies of mana, tribal economies, and diverse and community economies. "These have created necessary interventions to assert Māori perspectives as valid to national and international audiences," the report said. In simple terms, economic decisions were influenced by "mana-enhancing" interactions between people and the environment. Furthermore, there were two sides to this conversation. How did Māori organise their economies, and what framings of the economy did not align with Māori values? It stemmed from the perspective of measuring wealth by how much passes through one person's hands, rather than how much accumulated, and it allocated resources and undertook activities to generate adequate profits, Forward said. "It doesn't have to be profit-maximising, but you know, you need profits in order to survive otherwise you'll fall apart." Tribal economies: an example of iwi success History was deeply rooted in this topic and specific to iwi and hapū organisations. "Tribal economies move from how things were organised to the institutions that enable or constrain these ways of organising today," the report said. "This includes not just direct breaches of Te Tiriti, or the failure to honour purchase deeds, but the systematic exclusion of Māori from decision-making around how the economy is designed." An example of a tribal economy was Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, which was established under the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 and the Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu Act 1996. "Collective settlement assets are managed by Ngāi Tahu Holdings, separately from the bodies that spend and distribute the income earned from those assets, The Office," the lead author wrote. The Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement of $170 million had grown into net assets valued at NZ$1.66 billion. Assets included businesses like Queenstown's Shotover Jet and Fiordland's Hollyford Wilderness Experience. "Typically, any surplus generated by activities from settlement resources is appropriated by the Ngāi Tahu Charitable Trust and distributed to the wider iwi. But these resources only exist because of the intergenerational struggle for the Ngāi Tahu claim and are intended for future generations." In 2024, each of the 18 papatipu rūnanga (authoritative tribal council of a specific tribal area) in Te Wai Pounamu received $574,334 with a total direct distribution since settlement of $17.2 million. Today, the wealthiest iwi contributed to improving the wellbeing of 80,000 tribal members. 'Thriving and diversifying' Diverse and community economies used economic activities, both paid and unpaid, beyond formal market transactions. They included gifting, sharing, volunteering, and caring as legitimate economic actions. Although some challenges had been identified - such as resourcing rangatiratanga, financialisation, no time for kaitiakitanga (guardianship), and balancing obligations. The report also stated it also required pushing beyond limited Crown recognition, and exploring diverse forms of labour, enterprise, transactions, property and finance to achieve diverse and community economies. Forward explained it in terms of the "Matike Mai sphere" - the sphere of influence. "Of course [Māori] are a firm, at large, and empower the rangatiratanga sphere, but I think we see in our in our case studies what the kāwanatanga is doing does strike us, though we resist and though we're in defiance of their idea that they have a sole claim to authority sometimes. "We have to navigate strategically and that's what we take up - a new strategic navigation in which the kāwanatanga diverts us and say no more. That there are things that we can do in the relational sphere between those two spheres to demand a different shape rather than just a greater share."
South Wales Argus
19-07-2025
- General
- South Wales Argus
Craig Smith on Homewards Coalition Trust and Forward Trust's work
Since those early days as a tenancy support worker, I have had the pleasure of having worked in and led services supporting some of the most vulnerable and excluded people across Wales. Although the housing landscape has changed and brought new and increasing pressures and challenges, the single most powerful learning over the past 21+ years has been that when likeminded passionate and values-based people come together to look at a problem and involve and include people with lived experience great things can happen. I joined Forward Trust in late 2022 and was attracted by the Forward vision as it really resonated with me and everything I have strived to offer in my services – 'Our vision is that anyone – whatever their history or circumstances – gets the opportunity and support to live a positive life that fulfils their potential, and to inspire others to follow the same path.' This vision has underpinned everything we do and through developing positive effective working partnerships with HMPPS prison and probation colleagues, local authority homelessness teams, social housing and private rental sector landlords and a wide range of support services we have been able to have a real impact on the lives of people engaging with our service reducing the risk of homelessness and improve housing options available to men on probation and men returning to their communities after a prison sentence. A few months ago our Camau team (Camau accommodation probation service - Forward Trust) came together to develop a local vision for our service which we hope will inspire others to create new and creative housing pathways for 'Our Vision - Everybody deserves a place to call home.' We work with men on probation who are homeless or are at risk of homelessness to progress through their housing journey and take steps towards stable accommodation. In doing this we will connect them to skills, options and services that will empower them to have ownership of their housing journey. Our service supports, informs and empowers our neighbours in custody and the community, on every step of their journey to regain or retain housing and reach their full potential. I recently had the great pleasure of representing Forward Trust at the recent Homewards: Delivering Change Together event in Sheffield to celebrate the second anniversary of the Homewards programme, and met some truly inspirational colleagues from across the UK and a clear message hit home throughout the day 'Together we can end homelessness'. The work of the Homewards delivery partners across the six locations is having an immediate and lasting impact on the communities in which they are being delivered. It's a privilege to be involved in creating a supportive, collaborative partnership of delivery partners with a shared vision of making homelessness rare, brief and unrepeated and I look forward working with colleagues to create new solutions together. Craig Smith is the senior operations manager (Wales) - Commissioned Rehabilitative Services at The Forwards Trust, a Homewards Newport Coalition member.
Washington Post
18-07-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Marta hopes to lead Brazil to a Copa América Femenina title after coming out of retirement
It was just a year ago when Marta left the Olympic final with tears in her eyes, emotionally marking the end of a storied career with the Brazilian national soccer team. Turns out, the six-time world player of the year wasn't quite finished. The 39-year-old forward has un-retired and is playing for Brazil at the Copa América Femenina in Ecuador. The Brazilians have won eight titles in the premier women's tournament for South America.
