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Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73

After surviving cancer in 1992 and again in 2013, it returned in 2017 and on August 9, 2022, the Grammy-award winning singer lost her battle with spinal cancer.

In a statement released by her husband John Easterling, she was described as a symbol of “triumph and hope”.

Olivia Newton-John has died aged 73. (AP)

“Her healing inspiration and pioneering experience with plant medicine continues with the Olivia Newton-John Foundation Fund, dedicated to researching plant medicine and cancer,” the statement read.

She died peacefully on her California ranch, surrounded by family and friends, the statement said.

With a career spanning more than five decades, 100 million albums sold, four Grammy Awards, ten #1 hits and over 15 top 10 singles, Newton-John has well and truly earned her place as one of the world’s most successful stars.

Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta star in Grease.
Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta star in Grease in 1978. (Paramount Pictures)

Born in Cambridge, England in 1948, Newton-John was the youngest of three children born to her father, Professor Brian Newton-John and mother, Irene, daughter of Nobel Prize winning physicist, Max Born.

Newton John spent just five years in the UK, before moving to Australia in 1953.

It was winning a television talent contest, called sing sing sing, hosted by Australian rock ‘n’ roll icon Johnny O’Keefe in the 1960’s, that saw the singer’s career really take off. By the age of just 15, Newton-John had formed an all-girl group called Sol 4 and the teenager began appearing on local music programs in Australia and the UK.

She recorded her first single, Till You Say You’ll Be Mine, in 1966 and not long after she released her debut album, Let Me Be There. The record earned her a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocalist and a Country Music Awards for Most Promising Female Vocalist.

Newton-John was an actor, singer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. (Getty)

And that was just the beginning. 1974 was a big year for Newton-John. She came fourth in the Eurovision Song Contest, losing out to global pop supergroup, ABBA. Later that year she released a new album, featuring her single by her; I Honestly Love You. It became a worldwide hit and her first number one single in the United States and Canada.

Newton-John’s portrayal of sweet-as-pie Sandy Olsson in the movie grease, alongside Hollywood’s John Travolta, catapulted her into stardom. The movie’s soundtrack spent 12 weeks at #1 and yielded three top five singles for her including; You’re The One That I Want (with John Travolta), Hopelessly Devoted To You, and Summer Nights.

Synonymous with the film is the spandex pants and off-the-shoulder top Newton John wears in the movie’s final scenes, still inspiring fashionistas four generations later. It was also a role that very nearly didn’t happen.

Already 29 years of age at the time, the actress thought she may have been “too old” to play the part of a high school student.

Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu (1980). (Universal Pictures)

“I was very nervous about pulling it off. When I look at it now I think I was nuts. But when you’re really young you’re just more fussy about that stuff. When you’re older you’re just grateful, “She told The Washington Post in 2019.

Since then Newton-John went on to star in many other films and TV shows such as Xanadu, A Few Best Men, and more recently in 2010, she appeared as herself in two episodes of the hit series Glee.

It was in 1981 she released her hit song Physical. The song caused quite the controversy at the time of its release as a result of its sexually suggestive content, and despite being the #1 best-selling single of the ’80s, it was banned by some radio in America over the lyrics.

“For me it’s about the music. If it’s a great song then it’s going to sell itself anyway,” Newton-John told Fox News in 2016.

“But it’s a very competitive world. I’m so grateful I started when I did because these girls I think are probably pushed to get wilder and wilder to get noticed.”

In 1984, the songstress married her boyfriend of four years Matt Lattanzi, who she met on the set of Xanadu. The pair divorced after 10 years of marriage in 1995. They share one child together, daughter Chloe Lattanzi, 36.

Olivia Newton-John and John Easterling in 2010.
Olivia Newton-John and John Easterling in 2010. (Getty)

Not long after her divorce, the mother of one moved on with cameraman Patrick McDermott. After nine years together, he mysteriously disappeared from a fishing trip in 2005. While an investigation concluded McDermott most likely drowned, in 2016 he was reported to have been found living in Mexico.

The singer-songwriter went on to marry American businessman John Easterling in 2008. The pair had been friends for almost two decades before they fell in love.

“I’m very lucky I have a wonderful, beautiful husband who is just so loving and fantastic. I always tell my friends you’re never too old to find love,” Newton-John told People magazine in 2016.

The songmaker was sadly diagnosed with cancer three times throughout her life.

The first time was breast cancer in 1992, the same weekend her father had passed away from cancer himself. In 2013, Newton-John revealed the disease was back, this time in her shoulder, and in 2017 it returned in the base of her spine.

Olivia Newton-John
Chloe Lattanzi, Easterling and Newton-John attend the Olivia Newton-John Wellness Walk and Research Run in 2019. (WireImage)

“A lot of people see it as a fight, and that’s … however you choose to see it, that’s your prerogative. I see it as part of my mission,” she told the BBC in 2018.

Newton-John’s passion for health and wellness saw her open the world renowned and award-winning Gaia Retreat and Spa in Byron Bay in 2005. She opened the retreat as an ideal place to renew, refresh and restore and spent a lot of her time there .

Since her diagnosis over 20 years ago, Newton-John has been a strong breast cancer advocate and in 2008 opened the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Center in Melbourne. The Center provides world-leading treatment and care and gives patients access to clinical trials and breakthrough therapies.

This wasn’t the only cause close to her heart. The entrepreneur was named the first Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations Environment Program and in 1991, and served as the national spokesperson for the Children’s Health Environmental Coalition.

Newton-John has shared the stage with a slew of icons, including John Farnham. (Getty)

There aren’t many accolades Newton-John hasn’t received. On top of selling an estimated 100 million records worldwide, she’s taken home a swag of music awards including; 10 American Music Awards, 9 Billboard Music Awards and four Grammy Awards.

She was also bestowed an Order Of The British Empire by Queen Elizabeth in 1979, and an Order of Australia in 2006 and again in 2019. In 2018 she also received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from La Trobe University in Melbourne, in recognition of her significant and ongoing support of cancer research and holistic health.

It was in December 2019 that Her Majesty the Queen named Newton-John a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to music, cancer research and charity.

Up until her passing, Newton-John was living on a ranch just outside of Santa Barbara with her husband, Easterling. Newton-John once said; “I simply have a marvelous life, a very lucky life.”

I think we’re the lucky ones that she shared it with us.

The Seekers lead singer Judith Durham dead.

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Four Muslim men were killed in Albuquerque. Here’s what we know about them

The recent killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque have shaken the city. Here's what we know



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After ambush-style shootings of three Muslim men and the recent killing of a fourth in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Muslim community in the city is on edge and fearful.

A well-liked city worker who had aspirations of a future in politics and a proud new US citizen are among the victims of a spree of police shootings say they may be related.

The killings of Mohammad Ahmadi, Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, Aftab Hussein and Naeem Hussain have one obvious commonality though: They were all South Asian Muslims, according to Albuquerque police.

The three most recent killings happened within the span of two weeks, with local and national Muslim groups warning residents to remain vigilant. They’ve also put a spotlight on an unsolved homicide from November 2021.

Here’s what we know about the lives lost. CNN will continue to update this story with more details as we learn them:

Mohammed Ahmadi.

Mohammad Ahmadi was shot and killed outside of a business he and his brother ran together in November 2021, according to CNN affiliate KOAT.

Ahmadi was from Afghanistan, police said.

Muhammad Afzaal Hussain.

Muhammad Imtiaz Hussain had been living with his brother, Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, in the same apartment complex for almost five years and had never had any problems.

The brothers came to the US on student visas, studying at the University of New Mexico, and they would often take early morning or late night walks to the university library without any fear for their safety – until now.

Afzaal Hussain was shot, killed and found on a sidewalk on August 1, his face distorted from gunshot wounds, Imtiaz Hussain said.

“This is not a random killing,” said Imtiaz Hussain, who had to witness his brother’s wounds himself. “This is extremely motivated and extreme hatred.”

Afzaal Hussain was loved by everyone and a student leader excited for a future in politics once he gained US citizenship.

“We are in extreme fear,” Imtiaz Hussain said. “Living in this place is very painful.”

Hussain worked on the planning team for the city of Española. He had studied law and human resource management at the University of Punjab in Pakistan before receiving both master’s and bachelor’s degrees in community and regional planning from the University of New Mexico, according to a news release from Española Mayor John Ramon Vigil.

“Muhammad was soft-spoken and kind, and quick to laugh,” Vigil said in a news release last Wednesday. “He was well-respected and well-liked by his coworkers and members of the community.”

Naem Hussain.

Naeem Hussain, 25, had been a US citizen for less than a month when he became the latest shooting victim found by Albuquerque police officers just before midnight Friday.

His brother-in-law Ehsan Shahalami identified Hussian to CNN Sunday and said he had migrated as a refugee from Pakistan in 2016 – fleeing persecution as a Shia Muslim.

“He had a lot of dreams and he accomplished some of them,” Shahalami said. “His others of him were cut short by this heinous act.”

Hours before his own death, Hussain attended a funeral for two of the recent victims and expressed concern about the shootings, said Tahir Gauba, spokesperson for the Islamic Center of New Mexico.

Hussain worked as a truck driver for several years from Albuquerque, a job he took immense pride in, according to Shahalami.

“He was not even a citizen at the time but he would say, ‘This is our country, these people need us more than any other time,’ so he drove extra shifts to keep things rolling,” Shahalami said.

After becoming a US citizen, Hussain opened his own trucking business, had plans to bring over his wife from Pakistan and was interested in buying property in Virginia, according to Shahalami.

“He was the most generous, kind, giving, patient, and down-to-earth person that I could ever meet,” he said. “He was very hard working.”

Hussain wasn’t just working to support himself – he would share his earnings with family back home, Shahalami said.

After the funerals Friday, Gauba said, Hussain attended a lunch at the mosque and approached him asking if he had more information on the shootings.

“We (The Islamic Center of New Mexico) thought after burial of these two young men (on Friday), we would have closure and move on and let law enforcement investigate,” Gauba said. “Waking up Saturday morning to his (Naeem Hussain) death, the whole community just feels helpless. There’s a lot of fear.”

About 700 to 800 Muslims on Fridays attend the Islamic Center of New Mexico, the largest mosque in Albuquerque founded in the mid-1970s, according to Gauba.

Aftab Hussein.

Aftab Hussein was a Muslim man from Pakistan, police said.

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Australian petrol stations begin move to electric cars, with first Sydney site

Australian petrol stations begin move to electric cars, with first Sydney site

Service stations are beginning to embrace electric cars, with the official opening of the first of 120 fast-charge sites promised for Ampol locations across Australia within 18 months.

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Petrol stations are beginning to expand their reach to electric cars, with inner Sydney the start of a 120-site roll-out of fast-charging points at service stations across Australia.

Ampol is making the move with an initial group of five stations — Alexandria and Northmead in Sydney, Altona North in Victoria, Carseldine in Queensland and Belmont in Western Australia — as the company introduces plans to sell electric-car chargers for business and home installations.

The company has not revealed the cost of its AmpCharge program, but it is partly funded by $7.5 million from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, with backing from the Federal Government.

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The roll-out is relatively low-key, with only a single charger and two plugs at each site, but they are fast chargers capable of delivering up to 150kW.

That is more than many new electric cars under $100,000 can accept – but is down on the 250kW to 350kW maximum charge ratings of the latest Teslas, Porsches and Hyundais.

Ampol says its five pilot sites are fitted with solar panels and solar battery storage, which are being trialed for a potential roll-out across its network.

“As the energy needs of our customers evolve and more of us are choosing electric vehicles, Ampol is also transitioning to provide a range of fast and reliable electric vehicle charging solutions,” said Ampol’s managing director and CEO, Matt Halliday.

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“Consumers will see AmpCharge in Ampol service stations, depots and terminals right across the country. For the first time, we’ll also be entering homes, workplaces and shopping centers.”

Ampol is already promoting the AmpCharge program through its television advertising, and claims it wants to have Australia’s leading electric vehicle (EV) charging network by 2030.

“Our vision for the Ampol EV network is to develop a best-in-class EV charging ecosystem,” said Brent Merrick, Ampol’s executive general manager for international and new business.

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Paul Gover has been a motoring journalist for more than 40 years, working on newspapers, magazines, websites, radio and television. A qualified general news journalist and sports reporter, his passion for motoring led him to Wheels, Motor, Car Australia, Which Car and Auto Action magazines. He is a champion racing driver as well as a World Car of the Year judge.

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Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2022 Design And Display Specs Announced

Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2022 Design And Display Specs Announced

Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2022 Design and Display Specifications

In addition to Lenovo Legion Y70’s formal flagship phone, Lenovo is also planning to release Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2022 tablet PC, both expected to be pre-installed with ZUI 14.

Earlier, Lenovo Xiaoxin officially released 2022 models of the appearance of the new Pad Pro through a promotional video. Tablet has six colorways, corresponding to the two materials, increasing the face value.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-7gFx0tz6E

Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2022 Promotional Video

The six colorways of the Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2022 model are Moon Pura, Amber, Frost and Snow, Green Plum, Smoky Haze, and Companion Autumn, with a body thickness of about 6.8mm and optional PMMA and vegan leather dual materials.

Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2022 Design and Display Specifications

In terms of configuration, this Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2022 has two processor versions, Snapdragon and MediaTek Kompanio, which are expected to be Snapdragon 870 and Kompanio 1300T, with 8200mAh battery, and up to 68W fast charging support.

Lenovo Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2022 Display Specifications

Lenovo official also announced the screen parameters of the Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2022, which is equipped with an 11.2-inch 2.5K OLED screen that supports 600nits excitation brightness, 120Hz refresh rate, 360Hz touch sampling rate, 1920Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, and TÜV Global Eye Protection Certification 2.0. Support Dolby Atmos, SmartPA.

In addition, the Xiaoxin Pad Pro 2022 Snapdragon Edition supports 10bit color depth and 1.07 billion colors while Kompanio Edition supports 8bit color depth and 16 million colors, as well as HDR and Dolby Vision.

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WWE news 2022: Legend Virgil claims he’s had sex with one million women

WWE news 2022: Legend Virgil claims he's had sex with one million women

WWE legend Virgil has made the starting claim that he has slept with one million women.

The 60-year-old, real name Michael Jones, was a star of the squared circle back in the 1980s and 90s.

But during an appearance of The Breadstick Diaries podcast, host Vinny Vegas read out questions from viewers – one of which received an astonishing response.

The former professional wrestler was asked: “What’s your number Virgil, how many girls?”

To which he incredibly replied: “I don’t know, maybe like… worldwide? Probably a million.”

Host Vinny immediately questions Virgil’s claim, saying: “Virgil, come on, a million?”

But the former WWE star doubles down on the number, adding: “Yep, you’ve got like how many people in the world?”

A gobsmacked Vinny then says: “So you’re claiming right now, you’re telling me, your estimated number of women you had sex with is a million?”

And Virgil concludes by insisting he may well have done.

However, social media was not convinced by the ludicrously high number.

And one person replied to the clip by breaking it down mathematically.

They said: “Okay, I did the math: Virgil was born April 7, 1951.

“For him to have been with 1,000,000 women, that’s an average of one women every 37.5 minutes of his entire life since birth.”

While another added: “I did the math as well over 40 years of wrestling. About 60 or so a day lol.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission

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More human remains are found in receding reservoir near Las Vegas

More human remains are found in receding reservoir near Las Vegas

A formerly sunken boat is currently stuck nearly upright in a now-dry section of lakebed at the drought-stricken Lake Mead on June 23, 2022 in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada. The US

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Lake Mead, a federal park as well as the country’s largest reservoir, has unveiled yet more secrets as human remains were discovered at Swim Beach on Saturday, officials said.

The find was reported in the late morning at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, the National Park Service said in a statement. Park rangers cordoned off the area while Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department divers helped with recovery, it said.

It was the fourth time since May possibly decades-old remains have been reported at the lake located in Arizona and Nevada 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas. The discoveries include the following:

  • May 1: Remains were found in a barrel. A victim had suffered a gunshot wound and his or her demise might be dated to the 1970s or early ’80s based on clothing, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said.
  • May 7: Remains were found in another barrel discovered along a shoreline, officials said.
  • July 25: Remains were reported at Swim Beach.

The Clark County Medical Examiner is responsible for determining identities, where possible, and cause of death.

A July 6 discovery of remains near the reservoir’s Bolder Islands turned out to be the body of a woman who had gone missing after she fell off a jet ski June 30, authorities said.

Authorities and experts say the four discoveries of possibly much older remains could be the result of the lake’s receding waterline, which has dropped its telltale white “bathtub ring,” made of drying minerals, more than 170 feet since 1983. The reservoir is at about one-quarter of its capacity.

In May, the Southern Nevada Water Authority announced that one of its water supply intakes was exposed to the lake’s descending surface and could no longer be used to draw liquid. The authority said it had long planned for the event, and had a deeper intake ready to take over.

Nearly continuous drought in major regions of the West and Southwest has plagued the Colorado River since at least the dawn of the millennium. Other symptoms have included the mighty Colorado’s longtime failure to reach the Gulf of California until last year, when a binational agreement put water back in Mexico’s delta.

The growing Southwest’s dependence on the Colorado River — which feeds taps and helps grow food for an estimated 33 million people — has also played a role in the lake’s shrinking presence. Last year the federal government announced mandatory water cuts for the seven states that use the Colorado.

In June, Lake Mead’s surface elevation was measured at 1,044.03 feet, its lowest since the lake was filled in the 1930s. In July, that number was bested by a new low: 1040.92 feet.

Some observers have speculated that the lake could reveal some long-held secrets buried by mobsters who killed for power and money in Las Vegas in the decades following World War II.

Historian and Mob Museum Vice President Geoff Schumacher told NBC News affiliate KNSV of Las Vegas that it was unlikely the mob would dump bodies so close to town because it was averse the kind of publicity and law enforcement attention that might have created.

“The mob doesn’t want murder victims to be found in the city because it creates bad publicity in a tourist town,” he told the station in July.

However, Schumacher said in May a body in barrel is a different story.

“A barrel has a signature of a mob hit,” he said. “Stuffing a body in a barrel. Sometimes they would dump it in the water.”

Lake Mead was created by Hoover Dam, completed in 1935 and officially opened the next year. It held up the Colorado River’s flow through Black Canyon and pushed water into four basins that can help it hold two years’ worth of the river’s flow.

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‘Fill up now’: Aussie drivers urged to head to the petrol pump before prices skyrocket

'Fill up now': Aussie drivers urged to head to the petrol pump before prices skyrocket

Australian motorists are being urged to take advantage of falling petrol prices and fill up now to make the most of the “lowest levels we have seen for some time” before it is too late.

Prices across the nation last week were down almost 20 per cent from their July peak and experts say more price relief is on the horizon.

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The national average pump price fell by 8.1c to $1.73 per liter last week, down from a recent peak of $2.12 in the first week of July.

National Roads and Motorists’ Association’s Peter Khoury said Australia was nearing the bottom of the price cycle, but warned it could soon jump back up.

“They’ve been falling now for several weeks in accordance with the price cycle, but they have definitely fallen to levels we haven’t seen for some time,” he told 7NEWS.

Khoury said Sydney had hit its cheapest average price since April, reaching $1.62 on Monday.

“We are almost at the bottom of the cycle,” I explained.

“But also, we know oil prices have been falling steadily since hitting those high points that we saw in June.

“The average in the middle of June for regularly unleaded in Sydney was $2.19. It’s now at $1.62. That gives you an idea of ​​how much oil prices have failed.”

While motorists will welcome the relief at the pump, Khoury says it is not clear how long it will last.

“The falls are highly volatile,” he said, adding “we have no idea whether they’re going to be sustained long term.

“What we do know is that over the last two or three weeks it’s been pretty consistent, driven largely by concerns about the global economy.”

While it has taken about 50 days for prices to fall this low, Khoury says, it will only take a few days for them to jump back to the top.

“That’s just the unfortunate reality of price cycles nationally is that when they go down, they go down very slowly, and when they jump, they absolutely skyrocket,” he said.

“So at some point in the coming days, possibly later this week we will see that price cycle turn. And that’s why it’s really important for (motorists) to fill up today or tomorrow.

“Keep a very close eye because you’re going to see lots of service stations are below a $1.60.”

As for when motorists will see cheap prices again, Kheary says it depends on how long the next cycle is.

Man stunned after friend charges him $2.47 for fuel money.

Man stunned after friend charges him $2.47 for fuel money.

Here’s where to find the cheapest petrol in your postcode, as of Monday afternoon.

sydney

Real time fuel price tracker PetrolSpy says Sydney’s inner west boasts the cheapest petrol, with Payless Fuel in Sydenham offering $154.8.

Franks Automotive in Marrickville offers the second cheapest at $156.9.

melbourne

Metro stations in Carlton and Collingwood are offering the lowest prices, with $157.9 and $159.9 up for grabs respectively.

Brisbane

A tank of unleaded will be cheapest at Puma Wilston, Grange Auto Care or Puma Grange, which are all offering deals of $159.5.

Adelaide

Motorists can find the petrol on offer in Adelaide at X Convenience Prospect and Woolworths Ampol Nailsworth for $153.5.

Perth

Motorists will get the most bang for their buck at United Petroleum service stations in Northbridge, Mount Lawley and East Victoria Park, where prices are tied at $156.5.

The second cheapest suburb is Yokine, where Puma is offering $156.7.

Canberra

Prices in Canberra are yet to plunge quite as low as the rest of the country, with the cheapest $179.9 at Metro Petroleum Fyshwick, followed by $182.9 at BP Fyshwick.

Darwin

Drivers in Darwin face the most expensive prices, with FuelXpress Winnellie offering the cheapest deal of $189.5.

United stations at Darwin (Smith Street), Parap, Ludmilla, Winnellie Roadhouse and BP Winnellie are all offering prices of $195.5.

Hobart

BP Moonah, Coles Express Moonah, Ampol Moonah and Ampol Central Moonah are all offering petroleum for $176.9.

Man with 2 boomerangs smashes window in road rage incident.

Man with 2 boomerangs smashes window in road rage incident.

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ASRock Drops Custom Arc A380 Challenger Review on Weibo

ASRock Drops Custom Arc A380 Challenger Review on Weibo

ASRock is no longer an exclusive partner for AMD after the company announced its own custom Arc GPU. The ASRock Arc A380 Challenger is an entry-level card with a custom PCB design featuring a dual-slot and single-fan design.

ASRock posted a review of their new custom Arc A380 Challenger ITX graphics card on Weibo.

The custom GPU is a factory-overclocked model with a GPU clock of 2250 MHz. However, when tested, the clock measures higher than specified, reaching up to 2,300 MHz in Furmark and even 2,450 MHz in games.

ASRock Reviewed Their Custom Arc A380 Challenger ITX GPU on Weibo

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This is the same speed as GUNNIR’s custom A380 Photon OC model. The A380 Challenger comes with a single 8-pin power connector; the TDP for the SKU has not been confirmed yet.

Under heavy usage, the CPU fan speed can go up to 1683 RPM, with the temperature touching 85°C. The board power in Furmark is 54.9W which is less than the reference specification for the A380(75W).

The card was also reviewed in synthetic tests. The 3DMark software does not list Intel’s Advanced Performance Optimizations as enabled. The core appears invalid as the test ended early.

ASRock Reviewed Their Custom Arc A380 Challenger ITX GPU on Weibo

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ASRock Reviewed Their Custom Arc A380 Challenger ITX GPU on Weibo

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ASRock Reviewed Their Custom Arc A380 Challenger ITX GPU on Weibo

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Here’s the gaming performance for the A380 Challenger, tested at 1080p:

  • League of Legends (High Quality): 166.9 FPS
  • CS:GO (High Quality): 160.1 FPS
  • DOTA2 (High Quality): 146.2 FPS
  • apex legends (Medium Quality): 91.5 FPS
  • PUBG (Low Quality): 83.1 FPS
  • Gears of War 5 (High Quality): 63.1 FPS
  • Eternal Calamity (Medium Quality): 62.3 FPS
  • Shadow of the Tomb Raider (High Quality): 56 FPS
  • The Division 2 (High Quality): 53 FPS
  • Watch Dogs: Legion (High Quality): 49 FPS
  • Cyberpunk 2077 (Medium Quality): 47.51 FPS
ASRock Reviewed Their Custom Arc A380 Challenger ITX GPU on Weibo

ASROCK ARC A380 Gaming Performance in 1080

ASRock Reviewed Their Custom Arc A380 Challenger ITX GPU on Weibo

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The games tested included some popular AAA titles with support for DirectX12 API, modified for Arc graphics architecture.

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Storm boost forward pack | Storm

Storm boost forward pack | Storm

Melbourne Storm has bolstered its forward ranks by extending the contracts of two current top 30 squad members and adding a new face.

Back-rower Eliesa Katoa will join Storm from the Warriors on a two-year contract, while Tui Kamikamica and Tepai Moeroa will continue with deals that will expire at the end of next season.

Katoa, 22, has played 42 NRL games for the Warriors after making his debut in round one of the 2020 competition.

He was one of the standout rookies of that season, lining up in 13 games and scoring six tries as a hard-running edge forward.

Katoa played 18 games last season and another 11 so far in 2022.

He will link up with his new cub at the start of pre-season.

Kamikamica (Storm player #181) has become one of the mainstays of Storm’s forward pack, logging a career tally of 65 NRL games, half of those coming in the last two seasons.

The 28-year-old, who first came to Storm via feeder club Sunshine Coast Falcons, has also played 13 times for Fiji.

Moeroa (Storm player #215) joined Storm from the NSW Waratahs midway through the 2021 season and has now played 12 matches in the purple jersey to take his NRL total to 124 games.

He made a strong start to 2022, playing in the opening eight rounds before being sidelined by a fractured scapula.

It’s hoped that Moeroa, who has resumed contact training, will be back on the field before the end of August.

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What to watch in Wis., 3 other states in Tuesday’s primaries

What to watch in Wis., 3 other states in Tuesday's primaries

The Republican matchup in the Wisconsin governor’s race on Tuesday features competing candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump and his estranged vice president, Mike Pence. Democrats are picking a candidate to face two-term GOP Sen. Ron Johnson for control of the closely divided chamber.

Meanwhile, voters in Vermont are choosing a replacement for US Sen. patrick leahy as the chamber’s longest-serving member retires. In Minnesota, US Rep. Ilhan Omar faces a Democratic primary challenger who helped defeat a voter referendum to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new Department of Public Safety.

What to watch in Tuesday’s primary elections in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont and Connecticut:

WISCONSIN

Construction company co-owner Tim Michels has Trump’s endorsement in the governor’s race and has been spending millions of his own money, touting both the former president’s backing and his years working to build his family’s business into Wisconsin’s largest construction company. Michels casts himself as an outsider, although he previously lost a campaign to oust then-US Sen. Russ Feingold in 2004 and has long been a prominent GOP donor.

Establishment Republicans including Pence and former Gov. Scott Walker have endorsed former Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefischwho along with Walker, survived a 2012 recall effort. She argues she has the experience and knowledge to pursue conservative priorities, including dismantling the bipartisan commission that runs elections.

With Senate control at stake, Democrats will also make their pick to take on Johnson. Democratic support coalesced around Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes beats in the race, when his three top rivals dropped out and threw their support to him. He would become the state’s first Black senator if elected.

Several lesser-known candidates remain in the primary, but Johnson and Republicans have treated Barnes as the nominee, casting him as too liberal for Wisconsin, a state Trump won in 2016 but lost in 2020.

Four Democrats are also running in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District, a seat that opened up with the retirement of veteran Democratic US Rep. Ron Kind. The district has been trending Republican, and Derrick Van Orden — who narrowly lost to Kind in 2020 and has Trump’s endorsement — is running unopposed.

MINNESOTA

Democratic Gov. Tim Walz faces a little-known opponent as he seeks a second term. His likely challenger is Republican Scott Jensena physician and former state lawmaker who has made vaccine skepticism a centerpiece of his campaign and faces token opposition.

Both men have been waging a virtual campaign for months, with Jensen attacking Walz for his management of the pandemic and hammering the governor for rising crime around Minneapolis. Walz has highlighted his own support of abortion rights and suggested that Jensen would be a threat to chip away at the procedure’s legality in Minnesota.

Crime has emerged as the biggest issue in Rep. Omar’s Democratic primary. She faces a challenge from former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels, who opposes the movement to defund the police and last year helped defeat efforts to replace the city’s police department. Omar, who supported the referendum, has a substantial money advantage and is expected to benefit from a strong grassroots operation.

The most confusing part of Tuesday’s ballot was for the 1st Congressional District seat that was held by US Rep. Jim Hagedorn, who died earlier this year from cancer. Republican former state Rep. Brad Finstad and Democrat Jeff Ettinger, a former Hormel CEO, are simultaneously competing in primaries to determine the November matchup for the next two-year term representing the southern Minnesota district, as well as a special election to finish the last few months of Hagedorn’s term.

CONNECTICUT

It’s been roughly three decades since Connecticut had a Republican in the US Senate, but the party isn’t giving up.

In the GOP primary to take on Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthalthe party has endorsed former state House Minority Leader Themis Klarides. She’s a social moderate who supports abortion rights and certain gun control measures and says she did not vote for Trump in 2020. Klarides contends her experience and positions can persuade voters to oppose Blumenthal, a two-term senator who in May registered a 45% job approval rating, his lowest in a Quinnipiac poll since taking office.

Klarides is being challenged by conservative attorney Peter Lumaj and Republican National Committee member Leora Levy, whom Trump endorsed last week. Both candidates oppose abortion rights and further gun restrictions, and they back Trump’s policies from him.

VERMONT

Leahy’s upcoming retirement has opened up two seats in Vermont’s tiny three-person congressional delegation — and the opportunity for the state to send a woman to represent it in Washington for the first time.

Democratic US Rep. Peter Welch, the state’s at-large congressman, quickly launched his Senate bid after Leahy revealed he was stepping down. Leahy, who is president pro tempore of the Senate, has been hospitalized a couple of times over the last two years, including after breaking his hip this summer.

Welch has been endorsed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and is the odds-on favorite to win the seat in November. He faces two other Democrats in the primary: Isaac Evans-Frantz, an activist, and Dr. Niki Thran, an emergency physician.

On the Republican side, former US Attorney Christina Nolan, retired US Army officer Gerald Malloy and investment banker Myers Mermel are competing for the nomination.

The race to replace Welch has yielded Vermont’s first wide-open US House campaign since 2006.

Two women, including Lt. Gov. Molly Gray and state Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint, are the top Democratic candidates in the race. Gray, elected in 2020 in her first political bid, is a lawyer and a former assistant state attorney general.

The winner of the Democratic primary will be the heavy favorite to win the general election in the liberal state. In 2018, Vermont became the last state without female representation in Congress when Mississippi Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith was appointed to the Senate.

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Associated Press writers Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin; Doug Glass in Minneapolis; Susan Haigh in Hartford, Conn.; and Wilson Ring in Montpelier, Vermont, contributed to this report.

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Meg Kinnard can be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP

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