https m fb777 com News Don't miss out on the headlines from News. Followed categories will be added to My News. Appropriately decked out in his distinctive mango Hawaiian shirt, Townsville’s legendary media personality Steve ‘Pricey’ Price had a difficult decision to make – just what flavour of the new Frosty Mango soft-serve ice cream he liked most. The retired radio star was mulling the conundrum on Thursday inside the new Getta Betta Coffee + Burger The Lakes store, which had been flat out welcoming customers through its doors and drive thru since opening last week in the former Taco Bell building. The new store will exclusively stock three soft serve ice cream flavours from the iconic NQ business Frosty Mango – Classic Mango, Vanilla-licious, and The Twist – a combination of them both. Shovelling the tasty desserts into his mouth, mango-loving Pricey was torn deciding which he liked better, before eventually naming Classic Mango as his winner. “I’ve loved (Frost Mango) since day dot when Alf Poefinger created it. I just love them both,” Pricey said. “The soft serve reminds me of when I was a kid, when you used to get the whipped ice cream from the bloke who drove around with the van and the bells ringing. Decisions decisions, as Pricey weighs up Fosty Mango’s soft serve flavours The Twist and Vanilla-licious at the Getta Betta store at The Lakes. Picture: Evan Morgan “The new twist is magnificent. I love it, and you’ve got to try it, but I’m a bit of a classic (fan) too ... because you’ve got that little swirl of mango in it. “I’ve been promised a lifetime supply. They better come through and they better start picking the mangoes now.” Getta Betta Lakes has just opened. Picture: Evan Morgan Getta Betta was created by Otto’s Fresh Food Market co-owners Rob Aumend and Don Peel, who combined Getta Burger and their Good Morning Coffee Trader brand to create a hybrid model capable of attracting customers with premium burgers and drinks from breakfast to dinner. Just weeks after Mr Peel and Frosty Mango Wholesale chief executive Tom Freeland announced they would sell 16 flavours of Frosty Mango’s ice cream at Frosty’s Fruit Market and the Frosty Mango Hut kiosk in Castletown Shopping Centre, the next exciting partnership was revealed across the lake. Frosty Mango Wholesale chief executive Tom Freeland and Getta Betta co-owner Rob Aumend at Getta Betta's new Currajong store, which has just launched Frosty Mango's new soft serve varieties. Picture: Leighton Smith. Pricey has been a Frosty Mango fan since it was launched in 1989. Picture: Evan Morgan Mr Aumend said Getta Betta’s new store had been bustling since opening, helped by its central location next to busy roads, their premium ingredients, and now the soft serve offering. “(Customers) love it, and I didn’t even realise how many people would want mango,” Mr Aumend said. “Sometimes it’s a bit divisive, some people like mango, some people don’t. But almost everybody that we’ve offered a trial to has just gone, ‘yes please, we love that’.” He said the Twist was probably the most popular flavour, where customers could experience the best of both worlds. Inside Getta Betta Lakes. Picture: Evan Morgan Inside Getta Betta Lakes. Picture: Evan Morgan Mr Freeland praised the team who helped develop the new soft serve varieties within three months and adapt the soft-serve machine technology to allow for the coarser mango mix. Provided the soft-serve trial was successful, the potential was there to expand it to Getta Betta’s other stores. There were also future plans to supplement the ice-creams with add-ins sourced from Frosty Mango’s orchard, like crushed macadamias and pieces of mango, dragon fruit, and lychees. For more information, visit: www.gettabetta.com.au. leighton.smith@news.com.au More Coverage Frosty Mango brings iconic flavours to city with new location Leighton Smith Former Taco Bell site to offer quality coffees and burgers Leighton Smith Originally published as Getta Betta The Lakes to exclusively sell three Frosty Mango soft serve flavours Join the conversation Add your comment to this story To join the conversation, please log in. Don't have an account? Register Join the conversation, you are commenting as Logout More related stories News ‘Show some respect’: MP and veteran’s blast against anti-nuclear health fear A North Queensland politician veteran has snapped at a political anti-nuclear post, which he said contradicts nuclear-powered submarine policy. Read more Townsville Deck the cars: NQ Kool Cars and Kustoms’ Christmas makeover Christmas is right around the corner, and one Townsville business has gone all out on decorating. See the NQ Kool Cars and Kustoms showroom. Read moreMALAGA, Spain (AP) — The last man to face — and beat — Rafael Nadal in professional tennis, 80th-ranked Botic van de Zandschulp , converted his 10th match point Friday to finally close out a 6-4, 6-7 (12), 6-3 victory over Daniel Altmaier and help the Netherlands reach its first Davis Cup final by sweeping Germany. Tallon Griekspoor, who is ranked 40th, sealed the 2-0 win for the Dutch in the best-of-three-match semifinal by hitting 25 aces and coming back to defeat Jan-Lennard Struff 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-4. When it ended, appropriately, on an ace, Griekspoor shut his eyes, dropped to his knees and spread his arms wide. “We have been talking about this for two, three years,” Griekspoor said. “We believed in ourselves so much. We always felt like this was possible. To do it now feels unbelievable.” The other semifinal is Saturday, with No. 1-ranked Jannik Sinner and defending champion Italy taking on Australia . The championship will be decided Sunday. “We don’t have that top 5 player. We don’t that top 10 player. We don’t have that top 15 player,” Dutch captain Paul Harhuuis said. “But it’s a team effort. ... So proud of these guys.” In Friday's opener, van de Zandschulp was up a set and just a point away from leading 5-2 in the second when Altmaier began playing more aggressively and interacting more with the German fans, yelling and throwing uppercuts or raising his arms after key points. In the tiebreaker, Altmaier managed to save five match points before converting his own fourth set point to extend the contest. But van de Zandschulp — who upset four-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz at the U.S. Open — quickly moved out front in the final set, even if he eventually needed five more match points in the last game before serving it out. “At some point, I didn’t know what to do any more on the match points,” van de Zandschulp said. “I had the toughest match of my life on Tuesday (against Nadal), so everything that comes next is maybe a little bit easier.” In the quarterfinals, van de Zandschulp outplayed Nadal for a 6-4, 6-4 result that marked the end of the 22-time Grand Slam champion’s career because the Netherlands went on to eliminate Spain 2-1. The 38-year-old Nadal announced last month that the Davis Cup would be his final event before retiring. Presumably because people purchased tickets ahead of time with plans to watch Nadal compete in the semifinals, there were hundreds of unoccupied blue or gray seats surrounding the indoor hard court at the Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martina Carpena in southern Spain on Friday. Now truly a neutral site, the place was not nearly as loud and rowdy as on Tuesday, although there were shouts of “Vamos, Rafa!” that drew laughter while van de Zandschulp played the 88th-ranked Altmaier. It took Griekspoor more than 75 minutes and nearly two full sets to figure out how to break No. 43 Struff and then did it twice in a row — to lead 6-5 in the second set, and then go up 1-0 in the third. That was plenty, because Griekspoor saved the only two break points he faced. The Netherlands hadn’t been to the semifinals since 2001. The Germans — whose best current player, two-time major finalist Alexander Zverev, is not on the team in Malaga — have won three Davis Cups, but not since 1993, when 1991 Wimbledon champion Michael Stich led them to the title. AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennisPrime Minister Christopher Luxon has again defended his Government’s handling of the Interislander ferries, saying they’ve found a “great solution” to replace KiwiRail’s ageing ships. It’s been a year since Finance Minister Nicola Willis cancelled the previous Labour Government’s plan for two new mega ferries. The announcement yesterday that the Government will set up a new company to procure two new ferries to begin operating in 2029 has been criticised for lacking detail . The Government has defended itself by saying it needed to wait for advice from its ministerial advisory group and also get indicative costs from shipbuilders. Speaking to reporters during a visit to Levin today, Luxon again defended the plan. 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Livestream: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to speak to media after ferry decision criticisedJaland Lowe flirted with a triple-double as Pitt improved to 6-0 with a 74-63 win over LSU on Friday afternoon at the Greenbrier Tip-Off in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Lowe finished with a game-high 22 points to go along with eight rebounds and six assists for the Panthers, who have won their first six games of a season for the first time since the 2018-19 campaign. It would have been the second straight triple-double for Lowe, who had 11 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists against VMI Monday. Ishmael Leggett chipped in 21 points and Cameron Corhen supplied 14, helping Pitt outshoot the Tigers (4-1) 44.4 percent to 37.3 percent overall. Vyctorius Miller and Jalen Reed recorded 14 points apiece for LSU, with Reed also snatching seven boards. Cam Carter contributed 11 points. Pitt took control in the first four-plus minutes of the second half, opening the period on a 13-0 run to build a 40-28 lead. The Tigers were held scoreless following the break until Carter converted a layup with 13:13 to go. It was still a 12-point game after Zack Austin hit a pair of free throws with 12:50 remaining, but LSU then rallied. Corey Chest, Reed and Jordan Sears each had a bucket down low for the Tigers during an 8-1 spurt that made it 43-38. However, Lowe stemmed the tide, answering with back-to-back 3-pointers to put the Panthers up 49-38 with 9:31 left. Miller did everything he could to keep LSU in contention, scoring eight points in a span of 1 minute, 23 seconds, with his four-point play getting the Tigers within 56-52 with 6:03 to play. But Pitt never let LSU get the upper hand, and it led by at least six for the final 5:05 of the contest. The Tigers had a 28-27 edge at intermission after ending the first half on an 8-2 run. LSU overcame a quick start by the Panthers, who raced out to a 12-6 advantage and led by as many as eight in the first 20 minutes of action. --Field Level MediaThe world according to Jim: • As we approach the latest edition of USC vs. UCLA – in other words, a 5-5 team against a 4-6 team, their game Saturday at the Rose Bowl shunted to a 7:30 Pacific time slot so people in the Eastern half of the country who don’t have a bet on the game need not bother – the question must be asked: Are there people in those athletic departments who have buyers’ remorse over the move to the Big Ten? And will that remorse only increase as the travel horror stories involving non-football programs’ conference travel pile up? ... • Here’s a reminder of the reason for this displacement, as well as the only thing that seemingly makes it make sense: The L.A. schools are getting full shares of the Big Ten media pie, somewhere in the neighborhood of $60 million a year, as the first programs to jump the Pac-12 ship on the final day of June, 2022. Given the way former Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff subsequently botched the conference’s media rights negotiations, which began the mass exodus, the L.A. schools’ move in retrospect was understandable if regrettable. ... • Hey, it is more expensive to live in L.A., right? ... • Oregon and Washington, among the last to defect, get half shares for the balance of the Big Ten contract, which runs through the spring of 2030 (although Phil Knight’s largesse almost certainly helps offset the difference at Oregon). The teams that scattered to the Big XII and Atlantic Coast Conference similarly received reduced shares from their new conferences. Oregon State and Washington State have been living off the Pac-12’s surplus and a stopgap TV deal and teamed with Octagon this week in search of a new media rights agreement for the rebuilding conference. ... • On the football field, at least, it has been an unqualified triumph for Oregon, undefeated and currently at the top of the College Football Playoff pecking order. Washington is 6-5 overall and 4-4 in the Big Ten. The L.A. schools are reduced to playing for bowl scraps. And the idea that Washington, USC and UCLA are respectively eighth, 12th and 13th in their conference is its own special kind of culture shock. ... • We’ve had more than a year to get used to it, but I still miss the old Pac-12 and its regional rivalries. That’s not going to change for a good, long while. ... • Meanwhile, Ole Miss’ Lane Kiffin said the quiet part out loud the other day, as he is prone to do. His team’s on a heater – 8-2 overall, 4-2 in the SEC, No. 9 in the last College Football Playoff rankings and winner of three in a row, including a 28-10 thumping of then-No. 3 Georgia. Yet in an expanded SEC that – like the Big Ten – no longer has divisions and sends its first- and second-place teams to the conference championship game, Kiffin said he wanted no part of that 13th game and a potential third loss that would knock his team out of playoff contention. He indicated other SEC coaches had similar feelings. ... • In other words: The bloated nature of the current Power Four conferences – and, as former colleague Mark Whicker noted in his Substack column, the realization that contenders don’t all play each other because of that bloat – has already made the 12-team playoff unwieldy and borderline obsolete. Nice work, guys. ... • And let the empha$i$ on the bottom line, both among athletic programs and among those players getting NIL money, be one more reminder that the NCAA’s insistent reference to “student athletes,” parroted by its member schools, is as big a fallacy as ever and maybe more so. Reverse the order of that phrase and it’s closer to the truth. ... • The other aspect of what at first glance seems to be a diminished crosstown rivalry – at least until the game starts and the emotions on the field take over – is that one coach, UCLA’s DeShaun Foster, is digging out from the Chip Kelly era, and his team has already displayed progress this season. The other, USC’s Lincoln Riley, is drawing comparisons to predecessor Clay Helton among some alumni – and that’s not good. ... • The Rams will be honoring their 1999 team, which won the franchise’s first Super Bowl for St. Louis, at Sunday evening’s game against Philadelphia at SoFi Stadium. And if you are an L.A. Rams fan, all in on the team once again, do you really care about the ’99 champs, never mind willing to celebrate them? Or is there still a void between the team’s departure for St. Louis in 1995 and its return to Los Angeles in 2016? ( The Reddit conversation from this past May, “What Is Your Opinion of Georgia Frontiere,” indicates where longtime L.A. Rams fans stand on this.) ... • From the “things I wish I’d written” file, Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins’ wonderful description of the monstrosity that was the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson “fight” a week ago: “Was Jake Paul’s not the most punchable face in the history of punched faces? It was a face with all the character and lived experience of a canned ham. It was the consummate face of an influencer, with all the smirky grifting in search of the lux life that term suggests. There wasn’t a hint of true toughness — much less truth — in it. Just blandness cloaked in a poseur-pharaoh’s beard and topped by some box-color bleached curls, and God did you ever want Mike Tyson to put his very real fist in it.” Priceless. ... • The ball from Freddie Freeman’s World Series Game 1 walkoff grand slam, grabbed by 10-year-old Zachary Ruderman of Venice – who was told he was leaving school early that Friday to go to a orthodontist’s appointment only to have his dad take him to Dodger Stadium instead – is going to be auctioned off by SCP Auctions from Dec. 4-14. It should fetch seven figures, easy, maybe even more than the $4.392 million top bid last month for Shohei Ohtani’s 50th home run (which is currently held up by a dispute over who actually had the right to auction it). ... • If I could afford to make the winning bid on Freeman’s ball – and if I actually could, you wouldn’t be reading this column – I’d lend it to the Dodgers to prominently display among their MVP and Cy Young and Silver Slugger trophies, with the stipulation that it would eventually go to the Hall of Fame. That’s where it belongs. Now if someone could just find the Kirk Gibson ball from 1988. ... jalexander@scng.com

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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Robert Lewandowski converted a first-half penalty kick to become the third player to score 100 goals or more in the Champions League, behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Lewandowski calmly sent a low shot into the net from the spot in the 10th minute to give Barcelona a 1-0 lead against Brest. He scored his 101st goal from inside the area in second-half stoppage time to seal the Catalan's club 3-0 victory. Lewandowski trails the 129 goals of Messi and the 140 of Ronaldo, according to UEFA. Lewandowski needed 125 games to reach his milestone — two more games than Messi and 12 fewer than Ronaldo, who also scored once in the qualifying round. “I'm delighted, it's a nice number,” Lewandowski said. “In the past I didn’t think I could score more than 100 goals in the Champions League." It was Lewandowski's sixth and seventh Champions League goals this season. It's the ninth season in which the Poland striker has scored six or more goals. The 36-year-old Lewandowski is having a standout campaign, having scored 22 goals for Barcelona in 19 appearances. He is the Spanish league’s scoring leader with 15 goals from 14 matches. AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer'Raygun: The Musical' pulled after viral breakdancer calls in lawyersIn recent years, the rising trend of sustainable living and responsible consumerism has energized the global shift toward renewable energy. What was once a conversation held exclusively by environmentalists has now become a central topic in the world of business. As the planet confronts the increasingly severe repercussions of climate change, there has never been a more crucial time for business leaders to focus on renewable energy. Doing so could aid not just the environment, but also set a business apart in a competitive marketplace. Simply put, renewable energy knowledge has quickly become the next must-have skill for business leaders. One surprising resource that has been gaining increased popularity among business leaders is the renewable energy podcast . This format offers in-depth discussion and insights from experts in the field, easily accessible at any place, any time. It is a reflection of the burgeoning need for business leaders to stay informed about the latest trends, innovations, and policies surrounding renewable energy. Being in tune with this information can give businesses a competitive edge. One illuminating podcast episode may reveal an innovative technology that could make the production processes of a company less energy-intensive. Another insightful discussion might shed light on upcoming policy changes that have significant implications for the energy sector. By keeping their finger on the pulse, leaders can make strategic decisions that not only reduce the company’s carbon footprint but also increase overall efficiency and profitability. The surge in corporate social responsibility (CSR) further validates the necessity for leaders to have a deep understanding of renewable energy. CSR is a business strategy that ensures companies conduct their business in a way that is ethical. This means a business should have a positive impact on society, including taking responsibility for their environmental footprint. By leveraging renewable energy within their operations, businesses can not only decrease their environmental impact but also improve their reputation among consumers. More than ever, customers prioritize sustainability, and demonstrating a commitment to renewable energy can significantly enhance a company’s brand image. Renewable energy is not just about being ethically oriented; it also represents an area of significant opportunity for businesses. Solar and wind power costs are falling dramatically, often making them the cheaper option compared to fossil fuels. A leader with solid knowledge of renewable energy will be in a better position to identify these opportunities and convert them into cost-effective solutions for their company. Such proactive decisions can revolutionize the operations of a business, dramatically cut costs and make the company more competitive in the market. The critical role of renewable energy in today’s business landscape fundamentally transforms the skills landscape needed for future leaders. Universities and colleges should incorporate renewable energy courses into their business programs. Existing executives should consider participating in courses, workshops, or training sessions that focus on renewable energy. In the wake of the global shift toward sustainability, the business adage ‘adapt, or die’ has taken on a new, green hue. Business leaders who understand and embrace renewable energy not only affirm their commitment to the environment but also open a gateway to increased efficiency, cost savings, and a stronger brand image. In conclusion, renewable energy knowledge is not just a ‘nice to have’ but indeed a ‘must-have’ for business leaders. Its increasing importance and myriad benefits make it an integral part of the modern business landscape . Renewable energy is not just the future; it is the present. And the businesses that acknowledge this truth will be the ones leading the charge into a sustainable future.

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