Albuquerque, New Mexico, police are asking the public with help locating a dark colored sedan suspected of being connected to the murders of several Muslim men who were ambushed and shot in separate incidents.
At a press conference on Sunday, Albuquerque police asked anyone with information regarding a dark colored, four door Volkswagen, possibly a Jetta or a Passat, with tinted windows with possible damage to contact police “as soon as possible.”
Major Tim Keller said police believe the vehicle was used in the Friday night murder of an unidentified Muslim man in Albuquerque.
“We’ve learned some about what’s happened, we’ve had some leads,” Keller told reporters on Sunday. “We have a strong lead, a vehicle of interest. We don’t know what it’s associated with or who owns it.”
Albuquerque Police Department are asking for help identifying a vehicle suspected of being used in the homicide of four Muslim men
Albuquerque Police Department
Friday’s killing is believed to be linked to three previous ambush-style shooting murders of Muslim men, Albuquerque police chief Harold Medina said at a news briefing Saturday afternoon.
“As with the previous three murders we mentioned on Thursday, there is reason to believe this death is related to those shootings,” Medina said.
According to the Albuquerque Journal, 27-year-old Muhammed Afzaal Hussain was shot and killed on Aug. 1, while 41-year-old Aftab Hussein was killed on July 26. Both were from Pakistan and members of the same mosque.
Their deaths followed the Nov. 2021 killing of Mohammad Ahmadi, 62, a Muslim man of South Asian descent. Ahmadi was killed behind a market and cafe he owned with his brother.
Albuquerque police had previously said there was a “strong possibility” that all three of the prior homicides were related, according to the Journal.
On Saturday, the Albuquerque Police Department created a public portal where anyone can upload any videos or pictures that can lead to answers regarding the string of murders of Muslim men in the area over the last nine months. Police did not confirm if the lead on the vehicle stemmed from the portal.
I am angered and saddened by the horrific killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque. While we await a full investigation, my prayers are with the victims’ families, and my Administration stands strongly with the Muslim community.
The string of murders have shaken up the Muslim community in Albuquerque. Police on Sunday said it was too soon to know if the murders would be classified as hate crimes.
President Joe Biden tweeted on Sunday morning that he was upset by the killings and offered his condolences to the affected families.
“I am angered and saddened by the horrific killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque,” Mr. Biden tweeted. “While we await a full investigation, my prayers are with the victims’ families, and my Administration stands strongly with the Muslim community. These hateful attacks have no place in America.”
Vice President Kamala Harris also tweeted that she was “deeply disturbed” by the killings and said the White House stands with the Muslim community as police continue their investigation.
“I am deeply disturbed by the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque,” Harris tweeted. “As law enforcement continues to investigate these heinous attacks, we remain clear that we stand with the Muslim community in New Mexico and around our country. Hate has no place in America.”
On Saturday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
“This tragedy is impacting not only the Muslim community – but all Americans,” CAIR national executive director Nihad Awad said in a statement Saturday. “We must be united against hate and violence regardless of the race, faith or background of the victims or the perpetrators. We urge anyone with information about these crimes to come forward by contacting law enforcement.”
A transparent protective coating material that can be self-healed in 30 minutes when exposed to sunlight has been developed.
Excellent durability of automotive coatings is the most important issue in protecting a vehicle surface. In addition, protective coating materials should be colorless and transparent so that the original color of the product can be seen. However, it is difficult to provide a self-healing function while satisfying all of these conditions. Materials with free molecular movement have high self-healing efficiency, but have low durability, whereas materials with high hardness and excellent durability have remarkably poor self-healing performance.
The research team of Dr. Jin Chul Kim, Dr. Young il Park, and Dr. Ji-Eun Jeong of the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) has developed a transparent coating material that satisfies all of the above conditions and has similar performance to that of commercial protective coating materials and can be self-healed with only sunlight (Particularly near infrared light in sunlight, in the wavelength range of 1,000 to 1,100 nm).
Using the developed self-healing protective material, surface scratches can be healed in 30 minutes when exposed to sunlight. To demonstrate the self-healing performance of the developed coating material, the research team coated a laboratory-scale model car using a spray-coating machine. When the model car was exposed to midday sunlight for about 30 minutes, the scratch completely disappeared and the surface of the coating material was restored.
Principle of the self-healing phenomenon: When sunlight is absorbed by the developed material, the surface temperature rises as light energy is converted into thermal energy. Subsequently, the increased surface temperature makes it possible to self-heal a surface scratch by repeating the dissociation and recombination of chemical bonds in the polymer structure.
To the existing commercial coating resin, the research team add a dynamic chemical bond(Hindered urea structure) that can repeat the decomposition and recombination of the polymer structure, and mixed it with a transparent photothermal dye so that dynamic chemical bonding can occur actively upon exposure to sunlight.
Although self-healing functions using photothermal dyes have been studied, previous studies were mainly based on inorganic materials that are difficult to apply industrially as the coating material should be transparent. In addition, inorganic materials require a large amount of light energy to produce a photothermal effect.
The research team used transparent organic photothermal dyes that can absorb near-infrared light. Near-infrared light is a long-wavelength energy source that accounts for less than 10% of midday sunlight, and thus it can circumvent excessive increase of the vehicle surface temperature. In addition, organic photothermal dyes have several advantages for commercialization: they do not affect the product color due to colorless inherent color, easily blend with various paints, and are inexpensive.
The developed self-healing material is expected to be used as a coating material for transportation applications, electronic devices such as smartphones and computers, and building materials in the future. In addition, it is expected to contribute to the realization of carbon neutrality by reducing the use of harmful organic solvents, which are generated in large amounts when repainting vehicles.
This research was published as the supplementary cover of the May 2022 issue of ACS Applied Polymer Materials, an international scientific and technological journal.
Dr. Jin Chul Kim of KRICT, the research director said, “The developed technology is a platform technology that synthesizes self-healing coating materials using both inexpensive commercial polymer materials and photothermal dyes. It is expected to be widely used not only in automotive clearcoats but also in various applications.”
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Richmond led by just two points at quarter-time against the Northern Bullants on Sunday afternoon at Preston City Oval, but was electric with an eight-goal final term to run out winners.
The Tigers were unshackled with ball in hand, the final scoreboard reading, 21.10 (136) to 7.12 (54).
Samson Ryan was imperious in the air, finishing with career-high five goals in the 82-point win.
Richmond was challenged by the unorthodox nature in which the Bullants wanted to move the ball, but worked through it and took the game on.
The defining act of Richmond’s ballistic last quarter was Thomson Dow’s near “Leigh Matthews” moment, wrapping himself around the right goalpost and soccering through a goal that was unflinchingly courageous.
Ryan was supported by a tall fellow, Jacob Bauer, who was indefatigable and rewarded with four majors.
Steve Morris implored his young brood to play with flair, and a man who epitomizes that, Sydney Stack, nailed Richmond’s opening goal of the game.
Stack displayed ferocity at the ball and man from the first bounce, helping light the fire after a sedation start by the Tigers.
The Northern Bullants captured an early lead, but Richmond found its groove in transition as Hugo Ralphsmith gathered the ball at center half-forward and chipped the ball to Stack, who coasted, steadied and goaled.
The Tigers slammed on two more goals in quick succession, skipping to a nine-point lead.
Sam Banks has shown a proclivity for being penetrating by foot from beyond the arc, and the rangy wingman displayed that once again with a set-shot goal from the paint of 50.
Samson Ryan was a welcome return after his stint on the sidelines with concussion. The budding ruckman flicked a handball over his head at half-forward which set Thomson Dow on a path to goal, the agile midfielder driving the ball deep to the advantage of Jacob Bauer.
Bauer popped through his first goal from close range and Richmond had a handy buffer.
The Bullants hit back in the first time, cutting the margin to three points before Ryan was involved in another Richmond score, this time kicking his first goal.
Ryan was set-up superbly by Riley Collier-Dawkins, who showcased all the traits that make him a damaging and commanding prospect.
The Tigers upped the ante in the second term, starting with a Ralphsmith goal-saving play that translated into his side’s opening goal of the quarter.
Lachlan Street produced another fine captain’s goal, bursting clear of congesting in the forward 50, swinging onto his left and snapping truly.
Ralphsmith had a direct hand in another, staying strong in the contest which led to Jake Aarts picking out Bauer inside 50, who truly kicked.
The home side pegged one back before Collier-Dawkins burnt a path clear of the center bounce, pumped the ball inside 50 where Stack was rewarded with a free-kick and converted.
Richmond extended its half-time lead to a more comfortable 20 points before it turned up the heat in the second half.
The Tigers’ transition from their back-half and off turnover between the arcs was the main driver behind their opportunities up forward, as Ryan, Bauer, Ivan Soldo and Mate Colina provided significant headaches for the Bullants’ undersized defenders.
The Richmond keys kicked 11 goals between them and were given plenty of one-on-one opportunities as the Tigers went long and direct by foot.
A five-goal-to-one third quarter set the platform for the Tigers’ final term assault, as they continually won or halved critical contests in the air or on the ground.
NTH’B 3.4 4.7 5.10 7.12 (54)
RICH 4.0 8.3 13.7 21.10 (136)
Goal Kickers:
Richmond: Ryan (5), Bauer (4), Stack (3), Soldo (2), Aarts, Banks, Dow, Henderson, Hicks, Ralphsmith, Street
Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan were found guilty in February of interference with rights — a federal hate crime — and attempted kidnapping in connection with the 25-year-old Black man’s 2020 killing, with the jury accepting prosecutors’ argument the defendants acted out of racial animus toward Arbery.
Travis McMichael, who fatally shot Arbery, was also found guilty of using and carrying a Remington shotgun while his father, Gregory was found guilty of using and carrying a .357 Magnum revolver.
The McMichaels and Bryan already are serving life sentences after being convicted in state court on a series of charges related to Arbery’s killing, including felony murder. The crimes, months before the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, were in some ways harbingers of the nationwide protests that erupted that summer as demonstrators decried how people of color are sometimes treated by law enforcement.
For their federal convictions, the McMichaels and Bryan could face additional life sentences and steep ends. To make their case, federal prosecutors focused on how each defendant had spoken about Black people in public and in private, using inflammatory, derogatory and racist language.
Prosecutors and Arbery’s family had said he was out for a jog — a common pastime for the former high school football player — on February 23, 2020, when the defendants chased and killed him in their neighborhood outside Brunswick, Georgia.
Defense attorneys argued the McMichaels pursued Arbery in a pickup truck through neighborhood streets to stop him for police, believing he matched the description of someone captured in footage recorded at a home under construction. Prosecutors acknowledged Arbery had entered the home in the past, but he never took anything.
The defense also argued Travis McMichael shot Arbery in self-defense as they wrestled over McMichael’s shotgun. Bryan joined the pursuit in his own truck after seeing the McMichaels follow Arbery in their pickup as her ran; Bryan recorded video of the shooting.
Two prosecutors initially instructed Glynn County police not to make arrests, and the defendants weren’t arrested for more than two months — and only after Bryan’s video of the killing surfaced, sparking the nationwide outcry.
CNN’s Jason Hanna and Travis Caldwell contributed to this report.
The memory manufacturer Micron, who had developed GDDR6X technology in collaboration with NVIDIA for RTX 30, is now preparing for the next-gen GPU series by offering even faster speeds.
Company website has now been updated with new information on the new GDDR6X modules. It appears that 16Gb (2GB) modules featuring 24 Gbps speed are now in production, just 2 months ahead of the rumored launch of NVIDIA RTX 40 series.
NVIDIA is said to use both 21 and 24 Gbps speeds for its high-end series. Should rumors be correct, NVIDIA will be using 21 Gbps GDDR6X modules for three of the high-end SKUs: RTX 4090, 4080 and 4070. At the same time, rumors on supposed flagship model, either a professional workstation GPU or a true TITAN successor , might be getting 24 Gbps modules.
Micron GDDR6X memory catalog, Source: Micron
Micron probably wouldn’t be producing such chips for no reason, but just because such memory exists, it does not guarantee that full speed will be used by next-gen GPUs. For RTX 30 series, NVIDIA only used 21 Gbps speed for its RTX 3090 Ti model released in March this year, while the original 2020 launch only went as high as 19.5 Gbps.
The six-time WorldSBK Champion – who scored his second Suzuka 8 Hours victory and first in Kawasaki colors during the last running of the event in 2019 – came into the event as favorite alongside regular KRT counterpart Alex Lowes and former team-mate Leon Haslam, the trio having amassed eight wins at the iconic event over the years.
However, it was soundly out-performed by HRC Honda, which showed an unpenetrable level of competitiveness with its CBR1000RR-R Fireblade throughout the weekend in the hands of Takumi Takahashi, rookie Tetsuta Nagashima and WorldSBK regular Iker Lecuona.
With race starter Haslam losing ten seconds to Takahashi during the opening stint, Rea took on Nagashima for the second stint, but while the ex-Moto2 rider was making his debut at both the event and on a Superbike, he couldn’t make in- roads, which coupled to a longer stop swelled the margin to 21secs.
However, KRT’s race suffered its first major blow during the third stint when Lowes was caught out by the format of using two different Safety Cars during caution periods, with Lecuona being picked up by one and the Kawasaki man bottled up behind the other. With the Safety Cars touring at different speeds so as to quickly ensure all bikes could catch up to the pack quickly, this stretched Lecuona’s advantage by almost 50secs to well over a minute.
With Kawasaki switching up the running order to put Rea on the bike next, versus Takumi Takahashi, the Ulsterman did indeed begin making in-roads into the lead.
However, his momentum would make him somewhat ragged while negotiating traffic with Rea’s awkward lunge up the inside of a backmarker at the Turn 12 flip-flop chicane resulting in a front-end fold that sent him and the bike skating down the escape road into the foam barriers.
Getting both himself and the bike up again, Rea resumed unscathed without even entering the pits but it was another 30secs lost to the front. Worse still, with Kawasaki needing a longer pit-stop next time around to check for damage, Haslam returned to the track in third and with Nagashima bearing down on him.
The Japanese subsequently overtook Haslam to put HRC a lap clear of KRT, a critical moment that neither Rea, Haslam nor Lowes could reverse.
Instead, KRT settled into a battle with the YART Yamaha team for second place, a position the two teams would swap repeatedly as they pitted out of sequence with one another. However, when YART ran into myriad issues during the final hour, the KRT protected the ZX-10RR to bring it home a strong, if distant, second
“It has been a really enjoyable week here in Suzuka with my team,” said Rea. “All the team staff, plus my team-mates Leon and Alex, meant that the atmosphere has been incredible. We have worked really well together, everyone from back room staff, strategy people, caterers, nutritionists, doctors – every single person in the team worked so hard with a busy schedule to get here.
“It is not easy to have two goals in a single season – the WorldSBK championship and also the Suzuka 8 Hours. We had huge competition here, and did our best. I feel we just came up short but we can be proud, and really proud of my team-mates and everyone else for their hard work.It is a little bit bitter sweet coming second best but I think we can fly home knowing we gave it our best shot.
“There were a few mistakes in the race, a few issues, but that is Endurance racing and we can stand on that podium and be proud of our efforts. Thanks to Kawasaki and all of our sponsors for making this happen and no doubt we will be back again to try and go one better.”
A Southern California dermatologist was arrested last week for allegedly poisoning her husband, police said.
Yue Yu, who has an office in Mission Viejo, was busted Thursday after Irvine police served a search warrant at the couple’s home.
Investigators said Yu’s husband turned over “video evidence” backing up his belief that she’s the reason he’s been sick for a month, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The unidentified husband “sustained significant internal injuries,” but is expected to recover, police said.
Yu, 45, is affiliated with Providence Mission Hospital, which issued a statement noting her arrest while saying staffers were cooperating with authorities.
Dermatologist Yue Yu was busted after Irvine police served a search warrant at the couple’s home, the LA Times reported.Irvine Police Department
“The incident is a domestic matter which occurred in Irvine and we want to reassure our community that there has been no impact on our patients,” hospital officials said.
Yu’s biography was apparently removed from the hospital’s website as of Sunday.
Yu, whose bail was set at $30,000, was released from custody late Friday after posting bond, online records show. No additional details of the allegations were available Sunday, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Yu’s husband told police he suspected she had been poisoning him and set up surveillance video to confirm his hunch, Irvine police Lt. Bill Bingham told the Orange County Register.
Yu, who attended medical school at Washington University in St. Louis, is due to appear in court on Monday. It’s unclear if she’s hired an attorney who could comment on her behalf of her.
Yu and her husband have been married for 10 years. It’s unclear how she allegedly poisoned him, CBS Los Angeles reported.
Zipp’s wheel range has been completely overhauled over the last couple of years, with the brand making a wholesale switch to hookless and tubeless. This now includes the 808 Firecrest and 858 NSW wheelsets.
The final piece in the puzzle was the brand’s deepest rims, and the 808 (80mm-deep) and 858 NSW (82/85mm-deep) have been revamped to reduce weight and improve performance, according to Zipp.
With the new 8-series wheels comes a wider 23mm internal rim shape that’s optimized for 28mm tires, as well as a new construction method that Zipp says makes these new hoops the brand’s ‘most rideable’ specialist speed wheels yet.
They’re claimed to be faster, too. Combining aero and efficiency gains, Zipp says the 858 wheelset is nine watts faster, while the 808 is six watts faster.
And, in what’s been a trend for Zipp wheels recently, the new wheels are also cheaper.
The 858 NSW now comes in at £1,585 / $2,000 / €1,775 for the front wheel and £1,985 / $2,400 / €2,225 for the rear, while the 808 is £1,095 / $1,125 / €1,225 for the front and £1,140 / $1,175 / €1,275 for the rear.
Both are available in XDR or Shimano/SRAM freehub options (a Campagnolo N3W driver is available separately).
Zipp 858 NSW | What you need to know
243g lighter than the previous model
1,530g claimed weight (existing 858 NSW, 1,773g)
Optimized tire bed for easy tire installation
Sawtooth rim and HexFin ABLC dimple pattern
82/85mm-deep rim profile
Minimum 25mm tire width
Optimized for 28mm tires
23mm internal width with tubeless and hookless rim profile
Lifetime guarantee
Cognition V2 hubs with Axial Clutch V2 from the 454 NSW
£622 / €642 / $642 cheaper than the outgoing model
Updating a winner
Zipp has redesigned the 80mm-deep 808 wheelset.zipp
The 808 has an impressively broad set of victories in its long history, from multiple Kona Ironman wins, to World Championship and Olympic time trial victories, Tour de France stage wins – both road and TT – and Milan-San Remo.
For the new wheels, Zipp wanted to take the 8-series platform and move it forward in terms of rideability and weight, as well as the usual aero updates.
The idea, according to Zipp, was to make the 808 and 858 more usable for any road discipline (where conditions would favor it) without compromising the rider, rather than the wheels being aimed primarily at time trials and triathlon.
23mm internal width with tubeless and hookless rim profile
£565 / €714 / $713 cheaper than the outgoing model
The 858, with a rim depth that varies between 82mm and 85mm, has also been revamped.Russell Burton / Our Media
“We’ve historically looked to improve aerodynamics as the main goal of wheel design, especially when it comes to a rim as deep as the 808/858,” says Ruan Trouw, Zipp’s advanced development engineer.
“What we learned from the 303 and 404 development, is that many other elements are in play, and they require plenty of our attention too.”
This has led to Zipp’s mantra of ‘Total System Efficiency’; a way of weighing the various priorities in the design of a wheel to find the best balance.
This shows the evolution of the Zipp 808 rim profile.zipp
Total System Efficiency explained
Zipp’s Total System Efficiency design philosophy covers wind resistance, gravity, rolling resistance and vibration losses.zipp
Total System Efficiency (TSE) focuses on four areas, with varying importance depending on the type of rider and riding conditions: wind resistance, gravity, rolling resistance and vibration losses. Let’s take a look at each in turn.
wind resistance
Zipp says the hookless design has a small aerodynamic advantage.zipp
For Zipp, overcoming wind resistance is a combination of aerodynamic efficiency and crosswind stability.
The development of the original Firecrest shape, and the radical Sawtooth NSW shape (of the 858 and 454), combined Zipp’s research and testing in both areas.
With the dominance of road disc brakes, the latest generation of Zipp wheels don’t have to account for a rim-brake surface, so they’re wider and, according to Zipp, better shaped for a smooth interface between the rim and tire.
According to Zipp, the move to a hookless rim also helps provide a smoother rim and tire combination, reducing an area of high turbulence and, therefore, drag.
The 808 is part of the Firecrest range.zipp
Gravity
While the revised shape of the rim, and the introduction of hookless technology, improves aerodynamics, Zipp says there’s also a benefit in saving weight.
The weight savings here are impressive, with 282g saved on the 808 and 243g on the 858 NSW.
Where these were wheelsets used primarily in time trials, triathlons or fast road races, the new claimed wheelset weights of 1,635g (808 – 752g front, 883g rear) and 1,530g (858 NSW – 719g front, 811g rear) put these in the realm of general road racing in favorable wind conditions (they’re still super-deep rims, after all).
rolling resistance
The new design leans on the trend for wider road tyres.zipp
This is where things can get interesting. For years, road riders thought that a narrower tyre, pumped up to a high tire pressure on a road bike, was the fastest option.
The latest research, however, has shown that it’s better to go wide – within reason – to reduce rolling resistance. It’s a trend we’ve seen everywhere from size availability on the best road bike tires, to the latest Tour de France machines.
A tire contact patch relates to its rolling resistance, and the contact patch is defined by rider weight and tire pressure. For instance, if you take two bikes with the same rider and two different tire widths but the same pressure in those tires, the contact patch would be the same because they’re both supporting the same load with the same amount of pressure.
The big difference is in the shape of the contact patch. A wider tire will produce a wider but much shorter contact patch compared to a narrow tyre. That means less ‘sag’ in the tyre, less deforming the tyre, and less energy lost when rolling.
The upscale 858 NSW gets Zipp’s Sawtooth rim and HexFin ABLC dimple pattern.Russell Burton / Our Media
vibration losses
The final piece in the TSE puzzle, and one Zipp identified as being able to bring big efficiency gains, covers vibration losses.
For example, while the new 858 rim shape is only one watt more aerodynamically efficient, according to Zipp, the brand’s real-world testing has shown gains of eight watts for the 858 and five watts for the 808 when it comes to vibration and rolling resistance improvements.
While running a wider tire at a lower pressure helps, Zipp says there’s also a contribution from the new rim construction, called CiR (Carbon internal Reinforcement). It’s an idea borne out of Zipp’s ‘Nest’ development lab, which allows the quick development and testing of fully functioning, prototype rims.
Most carbon wheel designs (including Zipp’s previous ranges) used a rim with a uniform thickness throughout. However, Zipp’s testing and analysis has shown that forces acting on a rim are not uniform. As a result, the CiR design places material where it’s needed and removes any excess material. The finalization of this design apparently took more than two years.
The final design is best described as having an internal skeleton that’s wrapped with a fine carbon skin, much like the wings of an aircraft. The result is not only a rim that’s 10 per cent lighter than the previous model, even though it’s wider, but one that’s also significantly more flexible in its sidewall.
That means better absorption of vibrations from the road, and a less fatiguing ride as a result. Zipp also says it’s more efficient because the tire stays in contact with the road surface rather than skipping and bouncing across it. This all adds up to a faster wheel, despite losing the focus on aerodynamics.
Prices and availability
Both the 808 and 858 NSW are available from today, with pricing information below.
Zipp 858 NSW
The Zipp 858 NSW wheelset has a claimed weight of 1,530g – that’s 243g lighter than the previous model (1,773g). zipp
The 858 NSW is priced at £1,585 / $2,000 / €1,775 for the front wheel and £1,985 / $2,400 / €2,225 for the rear. zipp
Zipp 858 NSW front wheel: £1,585 / $2,000 / €1,775
Whether Carlton can get Patrick Cripps’ Match Review charge reduced or thrown out could well define the club’s season.
The Blues skipper was cited by the MRO for a collision on Sunday with Brisbane’s Callum Ah Chee, who was subbed out with concussion shortly after.
Cripps is set to miss two weeks with the incident graded as careless conduct, high impact and high contact. However, Carlton is widely tipped to challenge the result at the court and has until 11am AEST on Tuesday morning to confirm whether they will do so.
But Essendon great Matthew Lloyd can’t foresee a successful challenge.
“I thought two (weeks) was right,” he told sports day shortly after the news broke.
“I thought that when you jump off the ground, I felt like he turned and didn’t really reach and make a good enough attempt at football.
“To me, Cripps has just turned, braced, and knocked a guy out.
“I thought you’re in trouble, two weeks straight away. I don’t see how they get off this one.”
The potential challenge will be of greater significance given its timing. Carlton may need to win one of their final two games to lock themselves into September, and Cripps, the club’s go-to midfielder, would likely need to be there.
But in a glimmer of hope for Blues fans, 1988 Brownlow Medalist Gerard Healy suggested he could potentially see the ban being changed.
He compared the case to that of Lachie Plowman’s last year, with the defender’s court case and subsequent appeal both unsuccessful and a two-week ban remained.
Carlton’s Lachie Plowman has learned his fate following a marathon court hearing.
“I think it’s more line-ball for me (than the Plowman bump),” Healy said.
“That’s why we’re going to send it to the court… I think he’s in trouble, but I still think it’s not a closed case this one, whereas Plowman’s, I think that was a bit of a joke that they took that to appeal .
“(If the two-week ban remains it) really makes it difficult for them to retain their spot in the eight. I thought with Cripps in, maybe George Hewett back, they’re a chance in the last game.”
The Blues play Sydney and Collingwood in the remaining two games of the season and will go into both as underdogs.
In her maiden speech, she pointed out that Indigenous Australians are not a unity ticket when it comes to supporting the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
It would be easy to dismiss Price as just a darling of right-wing commentators.
Senator Jacinta Price taking part in a traditional ceremony with her grandmother, Tess Napaljarri Ross, before delivering her first speech in the Senate.Credit:James Brickwood
It would also be foolish.
When Price says there are more pressing issues than the Voice facing Indigenous communities, she speaks from personal experience.
Price fell pregnant with her first child at 17, completing year 12 assessments while in hospital with early contractions.
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As a victim of domestic violence in a subsequent relationship, Price was forced to flee her partner after he attacked her with a lamp. Soaked in blood, she ran to a neighboring property, believing if she did not get away she was going to die.
Price’s aunt and nephew were both murdered, the latter the result of a family feud.
While we talk about the hardships facing Indigenous communities, she has lived them.
In a 2016 speech to the National Press Club, Price spoke of how, in many cases of brutality, she was related to both the victim and perpetrator. She said she had been encouraged to ignore the fact they had committed acts of physical and sexual violence against someone she loved.
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Price came to political prominence after having the courage to expose family violence and sexual abuse in her own community and challenging the “cultural excuses” that protect perpetrators.
On her decision to speak out, she said: “I got to a point in my life where we had that many deaths in our family. We had that many women traumatized by family violence and children traumatized by family violence. And this ‘growing up yapa [Aboriginal] way’ is always like, you don’t talk about the really tough things. You pretend like they don’t exist … You’re supposed to turn a blind eye to that. And I think I got to a point where I went, ‘I’ve had enough of this’. And I became quite vocal.”
In her maiden speech, Price said the government had failed to show how a Voice would deliver practical outcomes for Indigenous people and noted in that very week that there were two clear examples of governments’ “failure to listen” to them.
The first was the recent decision in the Northern Territory to lift alcohol bans that Price says will allow “the scourge of alcoholism and the violence that accompanies it free rein, despite warnings from elders of those communities about the coming damage”.
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The second was the removal of the cashless debit card that, according to Price, has allowed families to “feed their children rather than seeing their money claimed by kinship demand from alcoholics, substance abusers and gamblers in their family group”.
Having run an election scare campaign on the cashless debit card nationwide, the government had little choice but to make good on its promise to abolish it.
But it was difficult listening to Price as she rose in the Senate to talk about the consequences that will flow from that decision.
Price has been speaking to income management recipients since the first trials in 2001 and her voice choked with emotion as she shared stories of how it has improved the lives of Indigenous women and children.
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She called on her parliamentary colleagues to “get out to some of these remote communities, where people – who are out of sight, out of mind to you – can’t clearly articulate to you because English is not their first language”.
She says she will bring to parliament their messages “over and over again” because “we’re trying to save lives here not toe the line of ideology”.
Whether it is the Voice, the movement to change the date of Australia Day or acknowledgments of country, Price says she has had more than her fill of being symbolically recognised.
She laments that “we spend days and weeks each year recognizing Aboriginal Australia in many ways, in symbolic gestures that fail to push the needle one micro-millimetre toward improving the lives of the most marginalized in any genuine way”.
Price’s arrival in Canberra makes us question which Indigenous voices the government is prepared to listen to and how it will respond to those it finds inconvenient.
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