The New England Patriots invested some premium capital in their defensive tackle position during Mike Vrabel's first offseason as head coach. Not only did they sign free agents Milton Williams and Khyiris Tonga, they also selected Joshua Farmer in the fourth round of the draft.
Williams and Tonga are pretty clear projections for 2026; the former is a starter, the second in Kansas City now. Farmer's outlook, on the other hand, is somewhat uncertain.
Name: Joshua Farmer
Position: Defensive tackle/Interior defensive line
Jersey number: 92

#Patriots

Meghan Markle brought a piece of royal history to a glamorous night out with Prince Harry by wearing jewelry once owned by Princess Diana. The appearance added another chapter to Meghan's long-running habit of incorporating Diana's personal pieces into her own milestone moments.
Among her most memorable tributes was the late princess' aquamarine ******* tail ring, which Meghan debuted on her 2018 wedding day and wore again months later in Tonga.
Meghan Markle paid a stylish tribute to Princess Diana while enjoying a rare red carpet date night with Prince Harry.
The Duke and ******* ss of Sussex attended the David Foster Foundation's 40th anniversary celebration in British Columbia on August 7, per Vogue. The couple posed on the red carpet with Foster and Katharine McPhee, who has known Meghan since childhood.
For the evening, Meghan wore diamond and sapphire earrings that once belonged to her late mother-in-law. The 45-year-old paired the sentimental jewelry with a black one-shoulder dress by Canadian label Greta Constantine. Harry coordinated with his wife in a black tux and bow tie.

#meghan #markle

Wales have finished in a disappointing 10th place at the Commonwealth Games after losing 63-53 to Tonga in their ranking play-off, two places lower than four years ago.
The Welsh Feathers ended their 2022 Birmingham campaign eighth and will leave Glasgow after another frustrating result in a campaign that produced one win and five defeats, having only beaten Trinidad and Tobago in the group stage.
The Welsh Feathers started brightly against Tonga, with captain Bethan **** feeding goal shooter Georgia Rowe well in attack to lead 10-14 at the quarter-time break.
Tonga rallied in the second, forcing Wales into errors from which they capitalised to bring the scores back level at 29–29 after 30 minutes.
The pressure on Wales continued as Tonga took control, netting 19 goals for the second quarter in a row and stretching their lead to 10 at three-quarter time.

#wales #quarter #campaign #time

Gary Kelly came from behind in dramatic style to beat 17 year-old Liam Hill from Tonga and make it three wins to start his campaign for a third Commonwealth Games medal.
Hill's aggressive style saw him cruise to 9-6 win in the opening set against an out of sorts Kelly but the Ballymoney man found his form to open up a 5-0 lead in the second set.
However, Hill would mount a comeback closing to within a shot heading to the final end.
Holding shot, that would have given him the game, Hill made a tactical error with his final bowl as he committed a 30 second shot clock violation.
It opened the door for Kelly but he still had a difficult shot to walk through it but he produced a superb bowl to trail the jack into the ditch, to take the set 7-4 and set up a one-end decider.

#kelly #hill #liam

It's another busy day at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow for Team Northern Ireland athletes.
It's an early start for bowler Gary Kelly, who faces Liam Hill from Tonga in the men's single sectional play at the SEC Centre at 08:30 BST as he aims to make it three wins from three.
Shauna O'Neill and Chloe Wilson will get under way at 17:50 when they take part in the women's pairs selection play against Isle of Man as they also aim for their third victory.
Kelly's final session of the day is at 19:15 as he takes on Singapore in the men's singles.
At the Tollcross Swimming Centre, it is a second morning full of heats from 10:30.

#commonwealth #glasgow

No team. No coach. No training facilities.
No problem.
When Salote Sisifa became CEO of Tonga Netball in 2014, she had a blank canvas. Some would call it an empty cupboard.
Twelve years and much upheaval later, the Pacific Islanders are ranked eighth in the world. For context, that's just behind Wales and ahead of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Tonga launch their first Commonwealth Games netball campaign on Saturday in Glasgow when they face Australia, the world's preeminent team.

#islanders

When the season is on, his job as a safety is to stymie any opposing success in his secondary, and when given the chance, to hit people hard enough to separate the ball from their body. It's football and he's good at it, but it's a far cry from what Raider Damuni did this summer to prepare for his last blast at BYU.
"We just got back," the senior told the "Y's Guys" livestream show this week about a trip to Tonga with a few of his teammates and head coach Kalani Sitake. While there, in addition to staging a football camp and a fireside, they advanced the mission of BYU-Pathway Worldwide throughout the island nation.
"When we play, we represent not just the people in Provo and Utah, but we represent the church and our faith and our faith is worldwide," Damuni said. "So being able to have that impact on people with the platform that we have as football players at BYU, that is why we want to go out and reach out to people, not just in the United States, but worldwide."
In partnership with the We Are One Foundation, headed by former Cougars Isaiah Kaufusi and Connor Pay with BYU head coach Kalani Sitake as chair of the board, Tonga has a new employment center to ****** ist BYU-Pathway Worldwide graduates find work.
"I've seen it firsthand with my own family," Damuni said. "I've had family members who went through the BYU-Pathway program who didn't go to college out of high school, but they were able to do that and now they are thriving in their lives. They have jobs. I think that is the vision."

#tonga #kalani

Gary Kelly is off to a winning start in the men’s singles. The silver medallist from four years ago dominated the game against Fred Tafatu from Niue Island winning by 2 sets to 0 (13-1, 8-3).
While the 36 year-old from Ballymoney ran away with the first set, the second was nip and tuck before Kelly sealed the win with a full house of four shots in the seventh and final end.
With only the group winner reaching the semi-finals, Kelly’s next game against New Zealander Shannon McIlroy on Friday morning will be crucial.
McIlroy recorded a big win over Tonga’s Liam Hill.

#four #gary

When an underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific in January 2022, it sent a plume of ash, steam and gas nearly 40 miles above the Earth’s surface. It was one of the most violent volcanic eruptions of modern times. It may also have also revealed a new weapon in the fight against a potent planet-heating gas, according to new research.
The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted with a power hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima nuclear explosion, setting off a tsunami and a sonic boom that went around the planet twice. It then did something “unexpected,” according to the authors of the new study published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications. It started cleaning up some of its own pollution.
The scientists’ discovery came from looking at advanced satellite data of the eruption. “We found a huge cloud of formaldehyde that should normally not be there,” said Maarten van Herpen, a study author, and a physicist and executive director at Acacia Impact Innovation, a Dutch consultancy. Formaldehyde often forms when methane, a potent planet-heating gas, is destroyed in the atmosphere.
The researchers believed they were observing a chemical process that had previously been identified over the Atlantic Ocean.
Scientists had found that when Saharan dust is blown over the Atlantic, it mixes with salt spray and forms small iron-based particles. As the sunlight hits them, it produces chlorine atoms, which react with methane in the atmosphere and help break it down.