CNN host Fareed Zakaria on Sunday slammed Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for what he called a “disgusting” and “scandalous” speech last week criticizing foreign leaders who disagreed with his ruling on Roe V. Wade.
Zakaria told Jim Acosta on CNN that Supreme Court justices are supposed to, at the very least, conduct themselves in a way that is above politics, given they are unelected members with life tenure who can decide crucial decisions shaping the lives of millions of Americans.
“The reason they have that legitimacy is, to put it very simply, that they behave themselves, that they behave in accordance with the kind of dignity and majesty of the court,” said Zakaria, who hosts CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”
“What Alito did, behaving like a cheap commentator, and not a particularly good one at that, was frankly disgusting. I mean I thought it was the most undignified performance by a Supreme Court justice that I have seen in my lifetime,” he said. “I don’t think any of his predecessors would have done it. I think it’s scandalous.”
Zakaria added that he did not expect formal punishment, but added: “If John Roberts wants to fulfill his role as chief justice, I think he should call Justice Alito in and try to explain to him why it damages not just Alito — who looks like an idiot — but it damages the court.”
During a speech at Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Summit in Rome, Alito mocked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prince Harry. He also mentioned Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron.
All four leaders had sharply criticized the Supreme Court for overturning the nearly 50-year constitutional right to abortion, which Alito seemed to find amusing.
“I’ve had a few second thoughts over the last few weeks since I had the honor this term of writing I think the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders who felt perfectly fine commenting on American law,” Alito said during his speech.
The Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe V. Wade has paved the way for many GOP-led states to ban or severely restrict abortion access across the country, despite around two-thirds of Americans supporting the right to an abortion in some cases.
Trust in the Supreme Court has never been lower, according to polling earlier this month, which found just a quarter of Americans hold confidence in the high court.
“Why are you sending me somebody else’s account statement and betting activity and who received mine??” asked one pointer on Twitter.
”Just got sent link to someone else’s statement too,” replied another.
“Same thing happened to me, extremely worrying,” quipped a third.
And what of Sportsbet’s response (the company was tagged in tweets from early July)? “Still radio silence from them,” lamented one account.
Sportsbet notified the NT Racing Commission of the snafu in earlier in July.
We hear Sportsbet isn’t terribly worried, given the statements are identifiable only by a personal betting number (without names and addresses). Which is handy, as draft legislation will increase penalties available to the privacy regulator to a maximum of $10 million.
That’d be a much steeper penalty than the ones Sportsbet received from Liquor & Gaming NSW last year for spamming customers with enticements when customers had opted out of such material (a paltry $135,000 fine) or the separate $22,000 penalty earlier that year for other advertising breaches. (The Australian Communications and Media Authority separately scored a $3.7 million penalty against Sportsbet this year for spamming customers).
But this is Australia, where you can launder money for international criminals, lie to gaming authorities, short-change the tax man, provide VIP service to underworld criminals, and gerrymander development restrictions, and the casino regulators will let you get away with it until the media reports it.
Sportsbet is currently advertising for a new head of compliance, after some recent turbulence in its legal and external affairs team.
This includes the loss of their head of corporate affairs, head of policy, head of legal, senior counsel, head of compliance, and head of NT government relations (where the company’s license is domiciled).
The good news is the growth team is getting a new compliance boss who will report to the chief growth officer, expanding the risk employees in that team. Just in time.
Perhaps that’s a good thing, given Sportsbet’s current chief legal officer Julie Ryan has had a mixed history with delivering growth.
Prior to her current gig, Ryan was Endeavour’s head of external affairs, where she was involved “late in the process” to secure the planned Dan Murphy’s in Darwin, according to the independent review of the proposal by Danny Gilbert.
That review found the company failed to engage sufficiently with Aboriginal groups concerned the mooted piss-up factory would supercharge already high rates of alcohol-fueled misery in the area, and thus the proposal was dumped in 2021.
Nevertheless, as Sportsbet’s new head of compliance, you’ll require the passion to deliver on the company’s “purpose… to build an iconic Aussie brand that brings excitement to life for generations to come”. Nothing more exciting than receiving a list of someone else’s failed bets.
Chinese domestic chip manufacturer, Zhaoxin, enters the world of APUs with its first product, CPU KX-6000 Goffering up to 1.5 TFLOPs of GPU horsepower.
Domestic Chinese Chip Maker, Zhaoxin, Equips the KX-6000G CPU with 1.5 TFLOPs Integrated GPU and Speed of NVIDIA’s Decade-Old GT 630
To make matters clear, Zhaoxin is a Chinese chip maker that offers both CPU and GPU IPs based on their own architectures. The manufacturer’s next-generation KX-6000 CPU lineup will replace the KX-5000 and ZX-200 CPUs that were on the market from 2017-2018. The latest chipset is expected to include 4 cores, 8 threads, speeds up to 3.0GHz, support for DDR4 DRAM, PCIe 3.0 I/O, and a native 16nm architecture.
Last month, we talked about how to use Zhaoxin’s KH-4000 series CPUs It managed to deliver single-core performance close to that of AMD’s first-generation Ryzen CPUs based on Zen architecture. Compared to the KX series that mainly targets the domestic consumer segment, the KH series mainly targets the server segment and offers up to 16 cores and 16 threads. It is also based on a 16nm process node although the architecture is not as updated as the KX-6000G CPUs.
So, going back to the Zhaoxin KX-6000G CPUs which we may also refer to as APUs since they use the same Zhaoxin-made Zhaoxin C1080 GPU found in Glenfly Arise-GT-10C0 dGPU which was launched in the Chinese domestic market just a few days ago Now the same discrete chip is packaged inside the Zhaoxin KX-6000G CPUs. The naming scheme and chip design look a lot like AMD’s Ryzen Desktop APUs which also use a separate GPU architecture and have a “G” attached to them.
According to Zhaoxin, a CPU has 8 cores and 16 threads made possible by merging two blocks on the same package. The standard version of the KX-6000 CPUs only comes with the integrated C-960 GPU that provides support for VGA, HDMI, and DP at resolutions up to 4K. The new integrated GPU not only provides increased performance, but also better graphics capabilities.
Zhaoxin’s KX-6000G CPU tested with integrated GT10C0 GPU in 3DMark 11. (Image credits: MyDrivers)
For starters, in 3DMark 11, the Zhaoxin integrated GPU scores around 1,000 points which is over 3x more than the older GPU. It comes with an all-new graphics and image processing engine that is compatible with Galaxy Kirin KOS, Tongxin Software UOS, Windows, and many other mainstream Chinese operating systems. The chip also provides full compliance with DirectX 11, Open GL 4.5 and OpenGL 1.2 APIs while outputting a native 4K screen. While it’s a huge improvement over its predecessor, the integrated chip is still only on par with the NVIDIA GT 630 graphics card in the 3DMark 11 (Performance) benchmark that scores similarly. (Result from the GT 630 review from Vmodtech):
The Zhaoxin KX-6000G CPU was also tested in GLMark 2 where it scored 3116 points, and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 scored 10516 points in the same benchmark. For the CPU, the Zhaxoin chip registers over 15,000 MIPS in multi-threaded decompression which makes it faster than the AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and close to the Intel Core i5-7500. We used the following degrees of TechSpot Review To make a comparative graph:
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Meghan Markle has made headlines recently for her alleged acts of “bullying”, and in the process has copped a substantial amount of vitriol.
But now the tables have been turned in a Channel 9 60 minutes segment that dug deep into the latest royal scandal involving the claims that the Duchess of Sussex intimidated and belittled her staffers.
When the allegations first emerged, Buckingham Palace announced it was conducting an inquiry, but it has since said it won’t release the findings. It’s a curious move that’s left many puzzled. What did they discover, that they don’t want us to know about?
And could it be that the facts actually reveal instead of being the bully, Meghan is the one who’s been bullied?
In the segment, 60 minutess reporter Tom Steinfort asked British television host Trisha Goddard, a rare and staunch supporter of the Duchess of Sussex: “Who do you think is the victim of bullying?”
“Meghan Markle,” replied Trisha Goddard, who was also a former Australian TV star featuring on such shows as Play School.
“They can’t go too all out on Prince Harry, so let’s go for the evil scheming woman, that whole thing about women taking men away and driving them somewhere and destroying them. I mean how misogynistic is that?
“I think what’s she done wrong is not to be of the correct stock. I think what she’s done wrong is to be an American, to be an outsider… also she she’s a strong woman.
“I’m not saying she’s perfect, but I’m sorry but Prince Andrew doesn’t get as much consistent vitriol.”
Steinfort then asked: “So what do you think is at play here – is it sexism, racism, or a heady combo of both?”
To which Goddard replied: “It’s all those and above. We know through the polling that the Sussex’s poll highest among youngsters, under 25s.
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“It’s the dinosaurs screaming when it comes to an outsider, and a female, and a female of color, then that is something that you are going to come down on because it shouldn’t be allowed,” she said on 60 minutes.
When asked if she noticed a pattern in the kind of people that attack Meghan, Goddard said: “Yeah. White, male, pale and stale”.
“Can we just stop messing around and call this for what it is – it’s bullying.”
She said it’s quite baffling why Prince Harry and Meghan are loved in America, but there’s so much controversy around them from the Brits.
“In the US people really like them they – they can’t understand what’s going on in Britain other than snobbishness, and I’m sure there’s a lot of that going on.
“You can’t blame them if they want to stay in the States can you?”
However, the bullying claims continue to swirl around Markle.
Also featured on the 60 minutes segment was Valentine Low, the royal correspondent for UK newspaper The Times. He said it was Meghan’s explosive Oprah interview that was the tipping point for several palace staffers who decided to reveal their claims of bullying to the world.
“What I was told was that in late 2018, Jason Knauf, who was Harry and Meghan’s communications secretary – so one of their very closest advisers – sent an email to his boss saying that Meghan had been bullying staff,” Mr Low said.
“He said that a couple of members of staff had been driven out by Meghan’s behaviour. and
he was also concerned for how much pressure was being put on their private secretary, their
very closest adviser, an Australian woman called Samantha Cohen.
“Now this was an explosive allegation, but the point is, nothing happened,” he said.
He said the palace simply didn’t know what to do.
“They didn’t know how to cope with such an unusual situation, and they didn’t know how to cope with Meghan.”
David King has questioned Brett Ratten’s post-game comments following St Kilda’s 12-point win over Hawthorn on Saturday, telling the Saints coach: “You can’t have it both ways”.
After coming too close for comfort in almost blowing a 44-point lead in the third quarter, scenes at the final siren were somewhat subdued for St Kilda fans.
The narrative after the game was a strange one given the last quarter drop-off where the Hawks kicked five goals to one, but Ratten questioned that during his press conference.
“Probably everyone that speaks about us speaks about half-empty,” the Saints coach said post-match.
“Every time we speak to somebody we’re not going so well, we don’t do this, we don’t do that.
“We won the game of footy.
“We didn’t play the game for four quarters how we wanted to, but we took four points.
“Everyone can keep looking at how negative the Saints are and what the Saints are doing, we won a game of footy. It would be nice if people say well done for a change.”
The win over Hawthorn came just two weeks after St Kilda released inner-sanctum footage of Ratten imploring his players to challenge each other and drive standards on the field following a disappointing loss to the Western Bulldogs.
“We’ve got to push, not concede. We’ve got to ask more of each other, not allow it to happen.”
That footage came among questions of on-field leadership, and the drop-off against Hawthorn failed to dispel that theory.
However, the win importantly moved St Kilda into the top eight, and the victory could have been bigger had they not kicked 10.15.
“They should have smashed Hawthorn on the weekend,” King said on SEN’s Whateley.
“I’m a little bit with Ratts on this game, they kicked 10.15 and 5.8 from set shots, you’ve just got to have a better return than that.
“You’ve just got to be able to put these games well out of reach and break the hearts of the opposition.”
However, King questioned the comments in relation to what Ratten said a fortnight ago.
“I agree with Ratts a little bit, but hey Ratts, it was only seven days ago you were sitting in front of the group saying we’ve got to raise the bar,” the dual-premiership Kangaroos added.
“So which is it? Can we be positive about what you’re doing as a group, or are we still challenging internally for guys to get better and raise the bar?
“You can’t have it both ways.
“I like what they can do, I don’t always like what they actually do.”
Despite finishing Round 20 in the top eight, the Saints face an uphill battle to hold that spot, playing Geelong, Brisbane and Sydney in their last three games.
When Alfred Boyadgis hit an oil slick a few years ago and smashed his motorcycle, the mounting on his helmet camera acted like a lance. He punched into the side of his helmet and he was lucky to escape serious injury.
Boyadgis wondered why the camera couldn’t be built into the helmet. Indeed, in such a smart world, why was his helmet so dumb? Why couldn’t it have warned him of that hazard and helped keep him out of an accident, rather than just protect him once he was in one?
The Forcite helmet: the name means being able to predict what is about to happen on the road.
Boyadgis teamed up with fellow industrial designer Julian Chow in Sydney and, after nearly 100 prototypes, they launched the Forcite helmet, which is now attracting interest around the world. It has a built-in camera, along with recording equipment, speakers, microphone and an innovative information system using colored lights and audio that is claimed to be far less distracting than projecting information onto the viewer.
“The company is called Forcite,” says Boyadgis, “because it’s all about having that future vision about what’s going to happen next along the road.”
Force is working in tandem with motorcycle brands to enhance the helmet’s safety features.
The latest version of the helmet can record trip details and incidents, warn of hazards ahead (though not oil slicks, yet), and indicate when to turn left or right without the rider looking down at a screen.
Thanks to the over-the-air updates, it is hoped to incorporate vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and car-like features such as blind spot and collision warning systems. Force is working with motorcycle manufacturers to link these upcoming systems.
The McKinney Fire along California’s border with Oregon exploded in size Saturday to 80 square miles and forced the evacuations of more than 2,000 people in the Siskiyou County community of Yreka.
Officials said early Sunday morning that the 51,468-acre fire — the largest so far in California’s still-early wildfire season — was 0% contained. State Highway 96 was closed along the Klamath River and several other small, rural communities remained evacuated. The fire remained at 0% containment Sunday evening, but no new evacuations were ordered, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said just before 7 pm An updated amount total wasn’t provided.
The fire, however, remained at least 5½ miles from Yreka, according to an online map of the fire perimeter the Yreka Police Department shared Sunday morning on Facebook.
“Little progression was observed on the fire’s edge closest to Yreka City,” the fire’s incident commanders wrote in their 8 am update. A fire-mapping plane that flew over the perimeter Sunday afternoon continued to show minimal spread toward Yreka, Siskiyou County’s seat and home to 7,807 people.
Larry Castle and his wife, Nancy, were among the 2,000 people in Yreka who were told they had to leave their home Saturday night. Officials were going through neighborhoods tying red flags on the mailboxes of every house that they’d checked to ensure the occupants had left.
Larry Castle said he loaded up a trailer with some of his prized possessions, including his motorcycle and his rifles, and he, Nancy and three dogs headed to Mount Shasta to spend the night at their daughter’s house.
He was hopeful that recent brush and tree thinning projects foresters had conducted on the ridge-top above Yreka would save the town, but he wasn’t taking any chances.
“You look back at the Paradise fire and the Santa Rosa fire and you realize this stuff is very, very serious,” he said, referring to wildfires in 2017 and 2018 that burned thousands of homes and killed dozens of people.
A scorched pickup truck remains on California Highway 96 in Klamath National Forest as the McKinney Fire burns nearby on Saturday. Noah Berger AP
Fire creates lightning and winds
The massive smoke plume from the fire was creating its own weather, including lightning storms. Lightning strikes sparked other small fires, including one west of Fort Jones, according to Klamath National Forest officials.
“The area remains in a Red Flag Warning today for a threat of dry lightning and strong outflow winds associated with thunder cells,” officials wrote in their 8 am briefing. “These conditions can be extremely dangerous for firefighters, as winds can be erratic and extremely strong, causing fire to spread in any direction.”
The fire erupted at 2:38 pm Friday at Highway 96 and McKinney Creek Road southwest of the Klamath River, and the cause remains under investigation.
Officials haven’t provided a tally of buildings destroyed, but maps show the fire has burned through small, isolated communities, including the unincorporated town of Klamath River, home to about 190 people, 20 miles west of Yreka.
The fire burned down at least a dozen residences and wildlife was seen fleeing to avoid the flames.
Photos from the Grants Pass Daily Courier showed homes and the community center destroyed in Klamath River as well as burned vehicles on Highway 96.
Officials said they spent the nighttime hours keeping homes and buildings in the Klamath River area from burning. Other small communities under evacuation include those in Seiad Valley, Scott Bar and Horse Creek.
Stephanie Bossen of Klamath River and her dog, Biggie, were in Weed on Sunday trying to find a place to stay. Because she was staying Yreka when the fire hit, she did not know if her home de ella survived. She said she’d been growing increasingly nervous as the temperatures climbed into the 100s over the past few days.
”I knew that was gonna be bad, because all the dry heat and it’s been such a drought around here recently,” she said. “It was gonna be bad somewhere. I just hoped it wasn’t so close to my house.”
A horse grazes in a pasture as the McKinney Fire burns in Klamath National Forest on Saturday. Noah Berger AP
Hikers and pets evacuated
On Saturday afternoon, Yreka police evacuated a mobile home park called Oakridge Mobile Estates “due to its proximity to the fire and the need for additional time for this group of residents to safely evacuate,” the police department said in a Facebook post.
Authorities were providing buses to residents who needed transportation out of the area and set up an evacuation center at the Weed Community Center, 161 E. Lincoln Ave. Twenty-two people stayed at the shelter Saturday night, said Stephen Walsh, a spokesman for the area branch of the American Red Cross, which is operating the site.
On Saturday, Fairchild Medical Center, the main hospital in Siskiyou County, moved patients, out of “an abundance of caution,” to out-of-area hospitals as far away as Sacramento, a hospital spokesman said.
But the hospital, located in a part of Yreka that is currently under an evacuation warning, remained open Sunday.
Officials also began compiling lists of animals lost or found because of the fire; Updated information on animal sheltering and how to find animals lost in the evacuation zones is available on the Siskiyou County website.
In the past 48 hours, the Rescue Ranch — a nonprofit dog adoption and rehabilitation center in Yreka — has seen more than 130 animals, mostly dogs, dropped off by evacuees who are unable to keep their pets at emergency shelters or motels, Natalie Golay, a Rescue Ranch spokeswoman, said Sunday.
“They’re still coming in,” she said. One was a puppy that a news photographer picked up from outside a home that burned inside the evacuated area. Golay said the owner, who lost his home, was reunited with his dog on Sunday afternoon. The pup’s name is Patches. It’s not an entirely happy ending, however. She said Patch’s owner fears for the lives of three other dogs he had to leave behind in the frantic evacuation.
NOT FOR BROADCAST: Putting this out for the owner. Small pup, estimated to be 4 months was found roaming within the fire zone. The pup was brought back to the town of Yreka and surrendered to the Rescue Ranch Inc as suggested by fire officials. #McKinneyFirepic.twitter.com/BOnKYFu6Sc
The group put out a call on Facebook seeking stainless steel pails, dog food and other donations to keep the dogs fed and cared for.
Meanwhile, search and rescue teams from Oregon and California have been locating hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail and escorting them to safety. The 2,650-mile popular hiking trail runs from Mexico to Canada and meanders for 110-miles through the evacuated area.
Around 60 hikers were transported in public transit buses from the California side of the Red Buttes Wilderness Saturday afternoon, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon.
The McKinney Fire is the largest to date this year, matching nearly all of the acreage burned in California so far in 2022 before it ignited.
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Saturday in Siskiyou County.
Angela Crawford watches as a wildfire called the McKinney fire burns a hillside above her home in Klamath National Forest, Calif., on Saturday, July 30, 2022. Crawford and her husband stayed, as other residents evacuated, to defend their home from the fire . Noah Berger AP
Flames from the McKinney Fire consume trees along California Highway 96 in Klamath National Forest, Calif., Saturday, July 30. Noah Berger AP
Scorched vehicles and residences line the Oaks Mobile Home Park in the Klamath River community as the McKinney Fire burns in Klamath National Forest on Saturday. Noah Berger AP
Angela Crawford leans against a fence as the McKinney Fire burns a hillside above her home outside Klamath National Forest on Saturday. Noah Berger AP
The Klamath River Community Hall is seen destroyed by the McKinney Fire in the community of Klamath River, Calif., Saturday, July 30, 2022. (Scott Stoddard/Grants Pass Daily Courier via AP) Scott Stoddard AP
In this remote image provided by Cal Fire, the McKinney Fire burns in Siskiyou County as seen from the Antelope Mountain Yreka 1 observation camera, early Saturday, July 30, 2022. (Cal Fire via AP) Cal Fire AP
Sacramento Bee photographer Sara Nevis contributed to this story.
This story was originally published July 31, 2022 7:56 AM.
Sam Stanton has worked for The Bee since 1991 and has covered a variety of issues, including politics, criminal justice and breaking news.
Ryan Sabalow covers environment, enterprise and investigative stories for McClatchy’s California newspapers. Before joining The Sacramento Bee in 2015, he was a reporter at the Auburn Journal, the Redding Record Searchlight and the Indianapolis Star.
It’s the sort of call that suggests Genex’s board has a rosy outlook, viable Plan B and/or an iron-clad grip on its share register. It’s also a call that makes it pretty clear the capital hungry renewables developer isn’t working as an ASX-listed vehicle; how else do you explain a bid at a 70 per cent premium being knocked back?
The rejection shows a huge gulf between the market and the board’s view on value. Genex shares have traded at or below 15¢ since March, and hadn’t closed above 20¢ all year (until Skip/Stonepeak turned up last weekend, as Street Talk revealed).
The board wants shareholders to think about last year’s trading, when Genex was regularly around Skip/Stonepeak’s 23¢ mark, and small cap broker target prices of 29¢ to 35¢.
It also reckons there’s signs of better times ahead, even if that wasn’t reflected in its share price or Paradice Investment Management/First Sentier’s selling one week ago. There’s strong wholesale electricity prices are in its favor in the near term, which makes its solar farms more valuable, while the longer term story is propped up by Labor government policy to target 82 per cent renewables by 2030.
Clearly, Genex needs to do a better of selling that story, starting with management’s pitch to Skip/Stonepeak.
Skip/Stonepeak’s expected to play nice, for now at least. He knows it’s sitting in a strong position courtesy of a 19.99 per cent pre-bid stake.
Hello, dear reader! Welcome to another edition of Ask Giz, where we answer your reader-submitted questions from all over the techy, science and generally nerdy space.
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Today’s question comes from Vanessa in Sydney. Vanessa wants to know:
“How do pilots ‘make up’ time in the air?”
Thanks for the question, Vanessa! Talking to my publisher about this one in planning this Ask Giz, she was pretty intrigued by how time was made up during a return flight from NYC. Travel (despite some glitches) is a thing again, so I imagine it’s a curious question among many international travelers (of which, I am not. The furthest I’ve flown is to Brisbane from Sydney).
So, let’s get to it. Pilots: how do you do that?
How do pilots ‘make up’ time in the air?
Making up time in the air isn’t actually sci-fi or as nerdy as it may seem: it’s really the result of well-organized planning between plans and air traffic control.
Air traffic control is the team at the airport that controls… The air traffic. Like, they speak to the planes in the air and make sure things are kept orderly up in the air space as the planes move from waypoint to waypoint.
Keep those waypoints in mind. Like in, say, a racing videogame, plans must pass through these waypoints to get through the airspace as indicated by air traffic control, like ordering traffic along with traffic lights.
But if you’re running a few minutes behind, one of these waypoints may be removed, shaving a few minutes off your flight time. This wouldn’t normally be done, but if there were a delay of some sort, such as slowing winds or problems at the airport, air traffic control can remove a waypoint if they talk to the pilot.
Here’s what Jim Cox, a retired airline pilot, told How Stuff Works:
“[Airline traffic control] has preferred routing out of and into large cities. They require that routing be the filed flight plan routing; Depending on traffic ATC may approve a request to shorten the flight path between navigation waypoints.”
So that’s kinda it. Making up time is usually something you’ll hear on longer flights experiencing delays, but shorter flights with fewer waypoints may be less likely to “make up” time.
No wormholes required
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Fremantle Dockers great David Mundy has announced he will retire from the AFL at the end of the season.
Key points:
David Mundy will end his career in the top 10 for most AFL/VFL games played
Fremantle has paid tribute to Mundy, calling him a major part of the club
The Dockers will honor his career during the round 22 western derby
Mundy, 37, made his AFL debut for Fremantle in 2005 after being drafted from Victoria, and has played 371 games to date.
That places him 10th on the list of most AFL/VFL games played, and the Dockers veteran is set to move into outright 9th place at least by the time he hangs up his boots at season’s end.
“I’m incredibly proud, I’ve been living my dream for 19 years now and I’ve loved every bit of it,” Mundy said in announcing his decision to retire.
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“Not all of it has been easy, there’s been quite a few, really hard and emotional bits to it, but I’ve been able to grow as a person and as a player throughout my time at Fremantle and I wouldn’t have it any other way”.
Fremantle football manager Peter Bell was quick to point out how significant Mundy’s career had been in the context of the club’s history.
Mundy says he is “incredibly proud” of his career with the Dockers.(AAP: Julian Smith)
“Dave has been a major part of where we are as a club and where we are headed,” Bell said.
“He’s a great character who understands the bigger picture, understands what the stresses of being a player are, and understands more broadly the other decisions and leadership that we need as a football club.”
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Fremantle will honor Mundy’s career during the round 22 western derby, the club’s final home game of the season ahead of the finals series.
While the game will be the fans’ chance to say thank you to Mundy, the veteran said it was also important for him to be able to pay tribute to the club.
“It’s been an incredible thing to be apart of to be honest, to receive that kind of love and respect from the fans,” he said.
“It’s something that’s really grown in the back half of my career and I find it really hard to describe how it makes me feel. It’s obviously very special and I really appreciate that support.”
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