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Los Angeles Times
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Walter Scott of R&B group the Whispers dies at 81
Walter Scott, who with his twin brother Wallace founded the Los Angeles-based R&B group the Whispers — a hit-making force in the 1970s and '80s with songs like 'And the Beat Goes On,' 'Rock Steady,' 'Lady' and 'Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong' — died Thursday, according to multiple media outlets, including Billboard and the Los Angeles Sentinel. He was 81. The Sentinel reported that Scott's family said he died in Northridge after a six-month bout with cancer. With a smooth, danceable sound built on sturdy post-disco rhythms and carefully arranged group vocals, the Whispers put 15 songs inside the Top 10 of Billboard's R&B chart; 'And the Beat Goes On' reached No. 1 in 1980, followed by 'Rock Steady,' which topped the tally in 1987. The band's music was widely sampled in later years, including by 50 Cent, Mobb Deep, J. Cole and Will Smith, the last of whom used 'And the Beat Goes On' as the basis for his late-'90s hit 'Miami.' In a post on Instagram, the musician and filmmaker Questlove described Scott as 'one of the most trusted voices in '70s soul music' and compared him to 'the talented uncle in the family….who btw could DUST you inna min w his dizzying blink & you lost him squiggle gee doo dweedy scatlibs.' Scott was born in 1944 in Fort Worth, Texas, and later moved to L.A. with his family; he and his brother started singing as students at Jordan High School, according to the Sentinel, and formed the Whispers in the mid-'60s with Nicholas Caldwell, Marcus Hutson and Gordy Harmon. The group spent time in San Francisco before Scott was drafted to serve in the Vietnam War. The group recorded for a series of record companies but found its biggest success on Dick Griffey's Solar label. The Whispers were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame. Billboard said Scott is survived by his wife, Jan; two sons; three grandchildren and his brother.
Daily Mirror
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Phasmophobia Twitch Drops explained – how to link your account and get rewards
The Phasmophobia Twitch Drops campaign is live now, and you can earn a new ID badge just by watching eligible streams over the next few weeks. Here's how it works The latest Phasmophobia Twitch Drops campaign is offering two versions of the new Stream Sentinel ID badge, with just one week to unlock the foil edition. Today marks a significant day for Phasmophobia enthusiasts as the Chronicle update announced last month is released, bringing a substantial revamp to the game. While the ghosts continue their usual hauntings, the method of collecting and recording evidence has been overhauled with the introduction of the new Sound Recorder equipment and a comprehensive Journal overhaul. The van has also received an upgrade, which will be music to the ears of van princesses everywhere, as it now offers more ways to contribute from your mobile safe haven. However, that's not the only fresh feature Kinetic Games has unveiled; the developer has launched Phasmophobia Twitch Drops, starting with the Stream Sentinal ID badge and a limited time foil variant for those who clock up the necessary watch time during the campaign's first week. Here's all you need to know about the Phasmophobia Twitch Drops, including the duration of the campaign, which streamers to tune into and when, and the rewards on offer. Phasmophobia Twitch Drops Firstly, you need to link your Twitch account to Phasmophobia. Start the game and you'll notice a new Twitch Drops icon on the main menu board. Click that and press connect, followed by the eye icon to obtain your code. Once that's done, visit input your code, approve the connection, and you're all set! Now let's move onto the actual Twitch Drops. The Phasmophobia Twitch Drops campaign is divided into two segments; the first is for the foil/animated ID card and badge, available in the week following the Chronicle update. The second part begins after that, giving players two weeks to accumulate watch time to unlock it. There's another stipulation as well, which pertains to the streams you're tuning into to earn the Phasmophobia Twitch Drops. Part one of the campaign for the foil badge is focused on official Kinetic Games partners, whereas for the second part, you can watch any Twitch streamer playing Phasmophobia. Here's a breakdown:. Phasmophobia Twitch Drops – Part one The initial part of the Phasmophobia Twitch Drops campaign runs from Tuesday, 24 June to Tuesday, 1 July. You need to watch two hours of streams from official Kinetic Games partners which are listed on the official site. My top picks are DontFightDucks, who's just been promoted to partner status and isn't on the list yet – but he's a partner now. Another solid choice is FlashForce, but feel free to select any streamer you fancy! Just ensure they're an official partner. The Phasmophobia Twitch Drops incentive for part one includes the foil/animated Stream Sentinel ID card and badge. Phasmophobia Twitch Drops – Part two The subsequent phase of the Phasmophobia Twitch Drops initiative commences right as the initial one concludes, spanning a full fortnight from Tuesday, July 1 to Tuesday, July 15. The blog post doesn't specify a required watch time for this segment, but it's likely to be around two hours as well. Regarding whom to watch, it's anyone's game – any streamer diving into Phasmophobia is fair game. The bounty for this portion of the campaign is the regular edition of the Stream Sentinel ID card and badge. This might be the inaugural Phasmophobia Twitch Drops event, but it certainly won't be the last. Kinetic Games has hinted at "plenty planned" for upcoming campaigns, including a partnership with the American Heart Association (hinted by the heart / fire badge showcased in the new main menu in-game). We're also anticipating player cosmetic rewards following the Player Character update, so there's much to look forward to in forthcoming Phasmophobia Twitch Drops.
Russia Today
5 days ago
- Business
- Russia Today
Canadian company suspends operations after African mine death
Canadian firm First Quantum Minerals has temporarily suspended operations at one of its Trident mines in Zambia following the death of an employee in a dump truck accident. The incident occurred at a pit at the Sentinel copper mine, located 150km west of Solwezi in the northwestern province of the southern African country, the mining company said in a statement on Monday. The 'operations in the area of the accident have been temporarily suspended and will resume once it is determined that it can be done in a safe manner,' it stated. The company said it had notified local authorities about the 'tragic loss' and that an internal investigation is currently underway. First Quantum is a major player in Zambia's copper-rich northwestern province, where it operates two major mines – the Kansanshi mine and the Sentinel mine, as part of its larger Trident project. Its operations, have, however, been marred by several fatal accidents in recent years, including a 2023 dump truck collision at Sentinel and multiple contractor deaths at Kansanshi. Last September, the Toronto-based miner reported that a collision between a tracked dozer and a light vehicle had killed one of its employees. In November the previous year, two contractors at its Zambian operations died in separate incidents. The latest incident comes at a time when countries in Africa have revoked the licenses of major Western mining firms over a series of grievances, including alleged unpaid taxes. Last Thursday, Niger's military government announced plans to nationalize Somair uranium, a local venture operated by the French state-owned nuclear company Orano since 1971, amid an escalating dispute between the miners and the West African nation. Governments in neighboring Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Mali have also moved to review mining contracts in recent months, seeking to boost revenue from their extractive industries. Earlier last Monday, Mali temporarily stripped Canadian firm Barrick of control over the country's largest gold mining operations, citing alleged unpaid taxes and royalties. In 2023, First Quantum lost control of its flagship Panama copper mine after the country's Supreme Court nullified its contract and the maritime authority blocked export permits.
Yahoo
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Midlothian man quit school after making £10k a month managing Fortnite players from bedroom
A young Midlothian man quit school after earning £10,000 a month managing some of the world's biggest online gamers from his bedroom. Ross McLaren, 22, was born with a rare form of muscular dystrophy which left him wheelchair bound. He dreamed of becoming a professional Fortnite player but instead built a six-figure business at the age of 17 while living at home with his parents, Lesley and Craig. Now Ross manages a team of ten and oversees the daily operations of some of the biggest names in online gaming including megastar Fortnite players Clix and Sentinel, reports The Daily Record. READ MORE: Eager Edinburgh customers in huge queue stretching up road as new cafe opens READ MORE: Australian 'fiasco' ferry leaves Edinburgh after months docked in the capital He told the Record: "I really wanted to be a pro-Fortnite player but I realised I wasn't good enough. "I got into video editing for professional Fornite players and started working with small gaming streamers for free when I was in school. "By summer 2021 I was making £10,000 per month and I told my parents I didn't want to sit my Advanced Highers. "They had their doubts and asked me to go back to school - but I quit after one day." Ross explained how his disability enabled him to get into the gaming world and hone his craft. He said: "Having muscular dystrophy was somewhat of an advantage for me as it meant I spent a lot more time on a computer when I was younger as I couldn't go out and play sports like other kids." The then-schoolboy began offering his video editing services to small streamers for fun. Just as he was about to give up, Ross struck gold. "I was working with a streamer called Bugha who only had about 20,000 subscribers," he said. "Bugha played in the Fortnite World Cup in 2018 and won $3million. Overnight, his subscriber count hit one million.' Bugha– now with 4.7million YouTube subscribers – stuck with Ross, and business 'spiralled from there'. Ross then caught the eye of another famous Fornite player called Clix who had 3.5 million YouTube subscribers. Following pressure from his parents, Ross went back to George Heriot's School for one day before quitting - and landed one of the biggest opportunities of his career. He was asked to run a gaming channel fronted by UK YouTube icon KSI who boasts more than 22 million subscribers. He now works as a freelancer, and manages content for professionals like Clix and top E-Sports organisation Sentinels, based in Los Angeles. Top Fortnite streamers like Clix earn around £100,000 per month and Ross collects a lucrative commission for producing content. The young entrepreneur now has his sights on relocating to the US to be closer to his star clients. He added: "It's crazy how things have turned out. "My job didn't exist a few years ago - now business is thriving. "I hope to move to Dallas. With Fortnite, the servers are based there and many of the players are. "I'm planning on taking the leap to move to be closer to my clients." Join Edinburgh Live's Whatsapp Community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Maxwell: 7 things to know about recently arrested Sheriff Marcos Lopez
Any time a sheriff gets arrested, it's obviously a big deal. And with Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez, it was a wild deal to boot, with authorities saying he ran a 'massive' gambling operation that included a full-fledged casino — in Kissimmee, of all places. Still, anyone who paid even passing attention to Lopez's tenure probably wasn't shocked to learn he may have done something wrong. This is a man, after all, who was deemed untrustworthy by the region's last two prosecutors. Lopez may have been a red flag in a green uniform, but he found an ally in Gov. Ron DeSantis in their joint crusade against State Attorney Monique Worrell. And the sheriff had a generally high-profile career that got even higher with his recent arrest and suspension from office. If you haven't been following along before, here are seven things to know about Lopez: 1. Two different state attorneys declared Lopez untrustworthy. Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell, a Democrat, and Andrew Bain, the man our Republican governor chose to temporarily replace Worrell, may not have agreed on much. But both agreed Lopez couldn't be trusted. Bain was the first to place Lopez on the office's official 'Brady List' of law enforcement witnesses the office considered unreliable after an incident where the sheriff's office improperly and indecently posted a photo of a dead 13-year-old girl on social media. Bain concluded that Lopez's office had conducted an inadequate, if not laughable, probe into the sheriff's role in the incident and that Lopez's conflicting statements made him untrustworthy. After Bain left office, Lopez appealed his decision. But Worrell's office rejected his plea, deciding to keep Lopez on the scarlet-letter list of cops with veracity concerns. It doesn't get much more damning than that. Osceola Sheriff Lopez placed on Brady list of law officers deemed untrustworthy 2. The Orlando Sentinel editorial board also urged voters to remove Lopez from office. This might not normally be noteworthy — except that the Sentinel endorsed Lopez in 2020 back when Lopez promised to usher in a new era of transparency and accountability. Voters liked what they heard. So did the ed board. But it turned out to be a crock. So last year, instead of defending its prior last decision, the ed board acknowledged reality and reversed course, urging voters to get the Democratic incumbent out of office, saying he had clearly lost the public trust. 3. Lopez was a key ally to Ron DeSantis in the governor's crusade against Worrell. The DeSantis team said it also consulted with Orange County Sheriff John Mina but relied heavily upon accusations made by Lopez that purported to prove Worrell was soft on crime. Well, many of those accusations turned out to be bunk. A Sentinel investigation would later reveal that nearly half of the 74 drug-trafficking cases that Lopez claimed Worrell had dropped were still working their way through the system and that other cases weren't prosecuted because of evidentiary problems. Interestingly, DeSantis teamed up with Lopez to go after Worrell in 2023 — the same year the state said it started investigating Lopez's crimes. 4. Attorney General James Uthmeier called the arrest 'solemn.' Anyone who has watched Florida's newly appointed attorney general knows he gets downright giddy when he talks about Worrell's removal from office. (As evidence, watch the press conference Uthmeier did last month in Orlando where he taunted Worrell with Sheriff Mina at his side.) But Uthmeier took a very different tone when Lopez was arrested, calling it 'a solemn day for Florida and our law enforcement community.' Lopez's arrest was definitely darkly serious. But it was probably especially solemn for members of the DeSantis administration who'd essentially made Lopez their lead character witness in the case against Worrell. 5. Lopez didn't put body cameras on all his officers. Three years ago, Osceola deputies shot and killed a 20-year-old man accused of shoplifting pizza and trading cards. Lopez said it was a fair shooting — but never had any body-camera footage to prove it. After that case raised questions and prompted a lawsuit, Lopez vowed to get to work on cameras. But that was the same thing he'd told the Sentinel more than two years earlier when he was first trying to get in office. Cameras are so commonplace nowadays that any sheriff or chief who chooses not to make body cams standard equipment is making an intentional decision not to give prosecutors and the public the full story. No body-cams rolled as Florida cops shot 20-year-old. That was a choice | Commentary 6. Lopez is innocent until proven guilty. Lopez hasn't been convicted of a thing so far. Maybe he never will be. He deserves his day in court. But the sheriff's office at large has a lot of questions to answer. Chief among them: How was this casino allowed to operate as long as it did? The Sentinel reported Wednesday that, prior to the sheriff's arrest, the sheriff's office had been dispatched to 'at least 50 incidents at The Eclipse casino.' Well, casinos aren't legal in Central Florida. So how many times should a law-enforcement agency have to show up at one before shutting it down? Osceola deputies made multiple responses to casino allegedly controlled by sheriff 7. He still shouldn't be in office. That is one of the main takeaways from all this: Even if you don't account for this recent arrest, Lopez has provided ample evidence that Osceola voters deserve better. Take it from the two different prosecutors who agreed on little else. smaxwell@
