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West Australian
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Seven unveils 7AFL Kids Call commentators, live and exclusive on 7plus Sport
The Seven Network will unveil a new commentary team on Sunday with the inaugural edition of 7AFL Kids Call, live and exclusively streamed on 7plus Sport in Victoria and West Australia. This year marks the first time Australians can stream AFL footy for free on 7plus Sport and access an impressive array of new shows, offering footy fans incredible AFL content seven nights of the week. Following the 7AFL Kids Call, minis from the match will be available on the 7AFL Kids Call Hub on 7plus nationally. In a first for Australian sporting codes, the 7AFL Kids Call will be led by three young footy fans who will present their own pregame and post-match coverage, as well as full match commentary for the Round 15 Western Bulldogs and Richmond clash from 3.00pm AEST Sunday, 22 June. Supported by Nintendo, the 7AFL Kids Call is designed to attract a younger demographic to 7plus Sport, while unearthing some of Australia's youngest and brightest Australian football commentary stars. The three talented participants who will be calling the shots are Alex Kouts (11), Ned Bolton (13) and Indie Axup (16), and they will be guided by seasoned caller Jack Heverin. Alex, the 2024 AFL Auskicker of the Year, currently calls senior football in South Australia each Saturday, and will be based in the commentary box alongside Jack and Ned. The son of current St Kilda assistant coach, Brendan Bolton, Ned has already shown a flair with his interviewing style through his popular 'Roaming Bolts' series inspired by 7AFL's Roaming Brian and produced by the Collingwood Football Club. Sixteen-year-old Indie will be on deck to deliver all the latest news and interviews from the boundary with coaches and players before joining Alex and Ned in the winning clubrooms post-match. 'Having this amazing opportunity to work with the 7AFL Kids Call and call the footy in our own way is a dream come true. Footy has always been a massive part of my life, and there is no feeling that compares to the roar of the crowd or the chants circling the stadium. Working alongside Ned and Alex will help to take away the nervous edge. I'm so excited,' Indie said. In a coup for footy fans, current stars of the game Cody Weightman (Western Bulldogs) and Darcy Moore (Collingwood) will also be on deck alongside the 7AFL Kids Call team, as expert commentators to give valuable insight and guide the young stars on gameday.
Perth Now
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Seven unveils special commentary team in Australian sporting first
The Seven Network will unveil a new commentary team on Sunday with the inaugural edition of 7AFL Kids Call, live and exclusively streamed on 7plus Sport in Victoria and West Australia. This year marks the first time Australians can stream AFL footy for free on 7plus Sport and access an impressive array of new shows, offering footy fans incredible AFL content seven nights of the week. Following the 7AFL Kids Call, minis from the match will be available on the 7AFL Kids Call Hub on 7plus nationally. In a first for Australian sporting codes, the 7AFL Kids Call will be led by three young footy fans who will present their own pregame and post-match coverage, as well as full match commentary for the Round 15 Western Bulldogs and Richmond clash from 3.00pm AEST Sunday, 22 June. Supported by Nintendo, the 7AFL Kids Call is designed to attract a younger demographic to 7plus Sport, while unearthing some of Australia's youngest and brightest Australian football commentary stars. The three talented participants who will be calling the shots are Alex Kouts (11), Ned Bolton (13) and Indie Axup (16), and they will be guided by seasoned caller Jack Heverin. 7AFL Kids Call will be live and free on 7plus Sport. Credit: Seven Alex, the 2024 AFL Auskicker of the Year, currently calls senior football in South Australia each Saturday, and will be based in the commentary box alongside Jack and Ned. The son of current St Kilda assistant coach, Brendan Bolton, Ned has already shown a flair with his interviewing style through his popular 'Roaming Bolts' series inspired by 7AFL's Roaming Brian and produced by the Collingwood Football Club. Sixteen-year-old Indie will be on deck to deliver all the latest news and interviews from the boundary with coaches and players before joining Alex and Ned in the winning clubrooms post-match. 'Having this amazing opportunity to work with the 7AFL Kids Call and call the footy in our own way is a dream come true. Footy has always been a massive part of my life, and there is no feeling that compares to the roar of the crowd or the chants circling the stadium. Working alongside Ned and Alex will help to take away the nervous edge. I'm so excited,' Indie said. In a coup for footy fans, current stars of the game Cody Weightman (Western Bulldogs) and Darcy Moore (Collingwood) will also be on deck alongside the 7AFL Kids Call team, as expert commentators to give valuable insight and guide the young stars on gameday. Credit: Supplied Credit: Supplied Credit: Supplied Credit: Supplied
7NEWS
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- 7NEWS
Seven unveils 7AFL Kids Call commentators, live and exclusive on 7plus Sport
The Seven Network will unveil a new commentary team on Sunday with the inaugural edition of 7AFL Kids Call, live and exclusively streamed on 7plus Sport in Victoria and West Australia. This year marks the first time Australians can stream AFL footy for free on 7plus Sport and access an impressive array of new shows, offering footy fans incredible AFL content seven nights of the week. Following the 7AFL Kids Call, minis from the match will be available on the 7AFL Kids Call Hub on 7plus nationally. In a first for Australian sporting codes, the 7AFL Kids Call will be led by three young footy fans who will present their own pregame and post-match coverage, as well as full match commentary for the Round 15 Western Bulldogs and Richmond clash from 3.00pm AEST Sunday, 22 June. Supported by Nintendo, the 7AFL Kids Call is designed to attract a younger demographic to 7plus Sport, while unearthing some of Australia's youngest and brightest Australian football commentary stars. The three talented participants who will be calling the shots are Alex Kouts (11), Ned Bolton (13) and Indie Axup (16), and they will be guided by seasoned caller Jack Heverin. Alex, the 2024 AFL Auskicker of the Year, currently calls senior football in South Australia each Saturday, and will be based in the commentary box alongside Jack and Ned. The son of current St Kilda assistant coach, Brendan Bolton, Ned has already shown a flair with his interviewing style through his popular 'Roaming Bolts' series inspired by 7AFL's Roaming Brian and produced by the Collingwood Football Club. Sixteen-year-old Indie will be on deck to deliver all the latest news and interviews from the boundary with coaches and players before joining Alex and Ned in the winning clubrooms post-match. 'Having this amazing opportunity to work with the 7AFL Kids Call and call the footy in our own way is a dream come true. Footy has always been a massive part of my life, and there is no feeling that compares to the roar of the crowd or the chants circling the stadium. Working alongside Ned and Alex will help to take away the nervous edge. I'm so excited,' Indie said. In a coup for footy fans, current stars of the game Cody Weightman (Western Bulldogs) and Darcy Moore (Collingwood) will also be on deck alongside the 7AFL Kids Call team, as expert commentators to give valuable insight and guide the young stars on gameday. Watch: Changkuoth Jiath shares details of impossible life choice Watch: Neale Daniher shares details of next amazing project
Irish Independent
12-06-2025
- Irish Independent
‘I don't think you'd ever see anything like it again' – Kevin McCloud has grand designs on Iceland
Kevin McCloud tells how he discovered endless joy in the country's extreme north – off the beaten track, where dining out is an expedition in itself. What's your favourite destination and why? Akureyri. It's Iceland's second city, which means it's the size of a small town in England, and it's in the extreme north. It sits at the end of a fjord and it's a long way from anywhere. As a result, it feels like you're entering the 1940s. It's a sort of time warp as well as a place warp. You can drive there, or you can get a flight, though in winter you'd be lucky to get there in a car because the roads are often shut or they're ice. You need a 4x4. When was the last time you were there, and who were you with? It must have been five years ago now with my wife and a great friend, Ned, who speaks Icelandic (everybody speaks English). It was winter, when you need to be with people in search of a particular kind of atmosphere or calm. They need to accept that driving for three hours to go to lunch might mean the restaurant is shut, and then driving home in the dark at three o'clock in the afternoon can constitute a really satisfying day. There's so much to see on the journeys – they're an adventure, which is very special. Covid put paid to a lot of travel plans, but I still remember it so fondly and I know it won't be long before we go back. Where do you like to stay? Some little modern plywood cabins, named Sunnuhlid. They're super contemporary cubes sitting in the snow and they rock slightly in the wind. ADVERTISEMENT Learn more They're just big enough for a week's stay. I found them on and I was struck by the fact it's not the usual offering. If you go along the south of Iceland, there's all these expensive hotels with thermal spas where you can just hang out in a white dressing gown with people who've got more money than you. But these three little wooden huts are the closest thing to camping you can do in Iceland without freezing to death. What were your favourite meals? On a drive to Husavik, which is about two-and-a-half hours from Akureyri (which was probably the shortest journey we did between where we were staying and going to a restaurant), we sat at the harbour and had fresh seafood. It was magnificent. On a trip to Stykkisholmur, we went into this little guesthouse and were offered lunch after a coffee. We sat down with six other people. We had lamb that was reared on their grass; we ate bread baked by them, made from flour grown by their friends; and geothermally grown vegetables. Everything in Iceland is so sustainably grown and makes for amazing quality food. I can't find it on Google Earth, but ChatGPT tells me it's called Narfeyrarstofa and says I've got great taste! What would you do if you had only 24 hours there? I would make an adventure out of a six-hour car journey, just to go back and find the restaurant in Stykkisholmur. And also because it's got the most amazing church, which is beautiful. It was designed by a man named Jon Haraldsson and it looks like it's from the 1960s – it's a sort of futurist shape. But it was only consecrated in the 1990s and it's got this great big sweeping bell tower that's shaped like a whale's vertebra, and inside it's a beautiful space. It just proves you can go to the most outlying place, and it happens to have a near-Michelin star restaurant that's open in the middle of winter. What's the one unmissable thing you recommend doing? Seeing the waterfalls. I don't think you'd ever see anything like it again, particularly when they're in full speed in late winter. The one called Godafoss is an entire ring of waterfalls flowing into a huge circular pool, and then you realise it's not a pool, it's a lake, and the falls are 90 metres high and the whole thing is beyond your comprehension – and so is the noise. Where do you like to chill out? It gets dark very early, so we stayed in looking out the window, discussing what went on in the day, maybe watching a movie, but usually I would sit there and edit my shots of the waterfalls, which were wobbly because the wind was so strong. You pass the time. The one thing you would bring home as a souvenir? One day we got excited and went down to the harbour and booked three places on the whale-watching in the morning and saw a whale, which was very exciting. As a result, in the shop we bought pairs of Icelandic hand-knitted mittens. Since then, Ned has given me a hand-knitted pullover he ordered directly from the knitting ladies of Iceland. Your favourite beauty spot? Wherever you look, there's some extraordinary thing happening in the sky. It's not anything to do with the static stuff on the ground, but everything to do with atmospherics. Of course there are the northern lights, but in winter the sky moves with such ferocity and the clouds so dynamically that it looks as though it's a dragon. Any building you would like to live in? I have no desire to own any more buildings, thanks. The funny thing about Iceland is its remote location and the fact that it remains this kind of world in which the last thing you'd think on holiday is: 'I'd love to live here.' Grand Designs is sort of partly predicated on that romantic notion of wanting what we haven't got and to express ourselves in places. But the thing about Iceland is the welcome is so great, but it's also so different in character to any of the usual points of reference that I don't have any ambition to live there. Do you have a top wellness tip for the area? There are thermal springs everywhere in the whole country, so take your pick. Get out of town, head for the mountains. In the wildernesses of Iceland, you don't need a spa. What you need when you've been traipsing through metre-deep snow is a hot shower. If you want to, in Akureyri there's a tunnel through the mountain – it's a major fishing port two hours along the coast, and this tunnel is around 5km. In the middle it's boiling hot because of the geothermal capacity of the island. People do yoga in the lay-bys, and then go to the edge of the tunnel and throw themselves in the snow. Then they stand underneath the hot shower, which is sourced from a hot spring that runs out and pours into the fjord. Plan your trip
Yahoo
04-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Ned Introduces Spotlight, a Lightweight Solution for Instant Cash Flow Insight
Spotlight delivers real-time cash flow visibility so lenders can reduce risk, cut complexity, and respond faster in a volatile market NEW YORK, June 04, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ned, a leading infrastructure platform for modern small business lending, today announced the launch of Spotlight, its first modular solution designed to give lenders instant visibility into a borrower's real-time cash flow performance. Spotlight enables lenders to quickly assess borrower health in moments where speed and simplicity are critical. The product addresses a growing market need, as many lenders remain reliant on legacy systems that lack real-time visibility and which slow down credit decisions. "Lenders needed something lighter, faster, and easier," said Dave Silverstein, CEO of Ned. "Spotlight is built for those critical moments when getting to the truth matters most." Addressing a Growing Need in a Volatile Economy As inflation and tighter margins squeeze borrowers, delayed insight creates real risk. Spotlight gives lenders instant access to live cash flow data, enabling faster, smarter decisions at key moments like pre-qualification, mid-loan check-ins, and risk reviews. "Spotlight gives you instant access to real-time cash flow data—no manual work, no delays," said Mayur Motgi, Ned's Chief Product Officer. By enabling lenders to pull and assess real-time bank data from multiple accounts in seconds, Spotlight is built to help teams: Pre-qualify borrowers quickly: Screen borrowers before a full app, saving time and focusing on the right leads Check balances before repayments: Avoid failed ACHs by verifying liquidity in real time Spot risk early: Monitor borrower health and act before issues escalate Spotlight's Key Features No-Code Setup with Borrower-Friendly UX: Fast to deploy and simple to use for both lenders and borrowers Custom Eligibility Score: Set unique cash flow criteria in minutes, fully aligned with your credit policy Instant cash flow verification: Pull real-time bank data in seconds, no PDFs or manual uploads required Multi-account access: Analyze multiple bank accounts per borrower for a complete financial snapshot Lightweight and Flexible: Deploy for pre-qual, underwriting, renewals, or post-close reviews, wherever visibility matters "Spotlight lets lenders apply their own credit criteria to quickly qualify borrowers or flag signs of distress," Silverstein added. "In a challenging economy, targeted visibility helps strengthen both pipeline and portfolio oversight, while reducing cost and complexity. We're proud to bring this to market and grateful to the lenders who helped shape it." About Ned Ned is a modern infrastructure platform that brings cash flow visibility and automation to every stage of the lending lifecycle. Designed for lenders seeking clarity beyond credit scores and collateral, Ned's white-label platform integrates directly into a lender's workflow, enabling custom cash flow scoring, tailored loan sizing, and real-time portfolio oversight. To learn more or schedule a demo, visit View source version on Contacts Josh Harris: Josh@
