Tributes have flowed for Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake after his death due to liver cancer.
Key points:
Miyake grew up in Japan before working in Paris with designers Guy Laroche and Givenchy
He was known for inventing a new style of pleats and designed Steve Jobs’ iconic turtlenecks
He then developed more than a dozen fashion lines
The iconic designer died of hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of liver cancer, on August 5, according to Kyodo news agency.
He was 84.
No further details were immediately available.
Known for his practicality, Miyake is said to have wanted to become either a dancer or an athlete before reading his sister’s fashion magazines inspired him to change direction — with those original interests believed to be behind the freedom of movement his clothing permits.
Miyake was born in Hiroshima and was seven years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city while he was in a classroom. He was reluctant to speak of the event in later life.
Miyake worked with Givenchy and founded one of the best fashion houses.(Reuters: Kim Kyung Hoon )
In 2009, writing in the New York Times as part of a campaign to get then-US President Barack Obama to visit the city, he said he did not want to be labeled as “the designer who survived” the bomb.
“When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience,” he wrote, adding that within three years his mother died of radiation exposure.
“I have tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to put them behind me, preferring to think of things that can be created, not destroyed, and that bring beauty and joy.
“I gravitated toward the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.”
After studying graphic design at a Tokyo art university, he learned clothing design in Paris, where he worked with famed fashion designers Guy Laroche and Hubert de Givenchy, before heading to New York.
In 1970 he returned to Tokyo and founded the Miyake Design Studio.
In the late 1980s he developed a new way of pleating by wrapping fabrics between layers of paper and putting them into a heat press, with the garments holding their pleated shape.
Tested for their freedom of movement on dancers, this led to the development of his signature “Pleats, Please” line.
The Issey Miyake fashion house has become known for its flowing pleat style.(Reuters: Piroschka Van De Wouw)
He then developed more than a dozen fashion lines ranging from his main Issey Miyake for men and women to bags, watches and fragrances before essentially retiring in 1997 to devote himself to research.
In 2016, when asked what he thought were the challenges facing future designers, he indicated to the UK’s Guardian newspaper that people were likely to be consuming less.
“We may have to go through a thinning process. This is important,” he was quoted as saying.
“In Paris, we call the people who make clothing couturiers — they develop new clothing items — but actually the work of designing is to make something that works in real life.”
Patrick Cripps will miss the final two rounds of the regular season after an unsuccessful appeal at the AFL Tribunal over a rough conduct charge.
Carlton attempted to argue that Cripps’ act – which left Callum Ah Chee concussed – was “not a bump” and was instead a pure contest.
Cripps, giving evidence, insisted his eyes were on the ball at all times, while the AFL argued Cripps had alternatives to how he could’ve contested the ball.
The AFL went as far as to argue Cripps elected to bump.
After a lengthy deliberation period, the Tribunal found the charge should be upheld.
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Meanwhile West Coast star Tim Kelly also fronted the Tribunal, contesting a one-match ban for a dangerous tackle on Adelaide’s Sam Berry, which was assessed as careless conduct with medium impact and high contact.
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Kelly’s legal representative argued the impact from the tackle should be classified as ‘low’ rather than ‘medium’.
Giving evidence, Kelly said there was little ill feeling from Berry towards him in the aftermath of the tackle, while a medical report showed Berry required no treatment and would not miss any games or training sessions as a result.
Kelly added: “To be brutally honest, it didn’t look like there was much impact at all.”
Ultimately, the Tribunal upheld the charge of medium impact and thus upheld Kelly’s ban.
Speaking after the side’s loss, Carlton coach Michael Voss came to the defense of Cripps’ action.
“I thought it was a good answer,” he said.
“The umpire probably told the story, he didn’t pay a free kick, did he? Clearly he felt the arms were out and it was evenly contested and clearly when you have not a lot of time to adjust in those circumstances, it made for a difficult contest.
“From what I’ve seen, the arms were outstretched and it was a pretty even contest.”
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Sources with knowledge of a discussion between the premier and Transport Minister David Elliott earlier this year confirmed Perrottet described Cartwright, the former boss of lobby group Business NSW, as “a problem”.
Perrottet on Tuesday told parliament Cartwright’s expenses were being examined by newly-minted Trade Minister Alister Henskens.
In a statement on Tuesday evening, Henskens said he had been advised that all approved expenses incurred by Cartwright complied with government policies.
Henskens has taken over the trade portfolio from Stuart Ayres, who was dumped amid concerns over his role in the Barilaro controversy. Ayres, who has denied any wrongdoing, was also replaced as deputy Liberal leader by Treasurer Matt Kean during a party room meeting on Tuesday.
Announcing Kean’s appointment, the premier said his government was building on its track record and “looking to the future”.
“We’ve had a unanimous decision and I think the sense in the party room today was incredibly strong, the entire party room coming together in supporting Matt Kean.”
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Appearing before the parliamentary inquiry probing his appointment to the New York role, Barilaro on Monday said he wished he had never applied, but that none of his senior colleagues ever raised any concerns.
Barilaro informed Perrottet, Kean and Ayres of his intention to apply for the $500,000-a-year role.
Perrottet on Tuesday said hindsight allowed him to see the recruitment for the position was clearly “flawed” and “problematic”, conceding regret for encouraging his former colleague to pursue the opportunity last year.
“If I had my time again, I would have asked him not to,” the premier said on Tuesday. “If everyone knew what they knew now about the process, I mean, the whole situation has been incredibly disappointing for everyone who has been involved.”
Barilaro told the inquiry he first spoke to Perrottet about his plan to apply for the job one month after announcing his intention to resign last year, while he was still an MP. He said the premier responded: “Great.”
Perrottet on Tuesday said it was a passing comment and “not a substantive discussion”, insisting he was not aware of the problems that have since emerged relating to the recruitment.
“I am there to encourage people, and I was not aware of the flaws in this process,” he said.
Barilaro will return for a second day of evidence on Friday, when the committee will introduce evidence relating to his staff member-turned-girlfriend Jennifer Lugsdin, for whom he helped secure a job at Investment NSW.
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Perrottet is awaiting the findings of an independent review of the process, which is being completed by former public service commissioner Graeme Head.
He has also recommended that Governor Margaret Beazley appoint high-profile silk Bruce McClintock, SC, to conduct a legal review into whether Ayres breached the ministerial code of conduct in his involvement with the Barilaro appointment.
The premier said the findings of the McClintock review will be made public once it is completed.
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With Rudy Giuliani just days away from his scheduled Tuesday appearance before an Atlanta grand jury, his lawyer asked for a last-minute delay — providing a doctor’s note saying the 78-year-old was not cleared to fly because of a recent “invasive procedure” .”
The email response from the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was unyielding.
“We do not consent to change the date,” wrote a deputy to Willis, adding: “We will provide alternate transportation including bus or train if your client maintains he is unable to fly.”
The dispute, which burst into view Monday amid contentious legal filings and exchanges over Giuliani’s travel schedule and airline ticket purchases, prompted a judge to delay Giuliani’s Tuesday testimony and schedule a hearing with lawyers for each side.
It marked the latest sign of tension between prosecutors and potential witnesses in Willis’s burgeoning criminal probe of alleged election interference by former president Donald Trump and his allies. Giuliani, Trump’s former lawyer, had already signaled through his legal team that he would cite “attorney-client privilege” and probably refuse to talk about his interactions with Trump.
On Wednesday, a federal judge in Atlanta is slated to consider the claim of Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (RS.C.) that he should not be compelled to testify to the same grand jury about his calls from him to Georgia’s secretary of state after the 2020 election.
Graham, a close Trump ally, has argued that he made the calls in the ordinary course of his work as a senator, and that such duties are protected by the Constitution. Prosecutors have argued in court filings that Graham’s “unusual activity mirrored the Trump campaign’s own efforts to potentially disrupt the Georgia election certification process.”
The legal maneuvering this week comes as Willis’s inquiry has expanded and emerged as a legal threat to the former president and some of his most important allies.
“What seems clear is the Fulton County district attorney’s office is getting closer and closer to the former president’s innermost circle,” said Anthony Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University. “That alone suggests to me that the investigation is making an important headway.”
Willis launched the probe in the weeks after the Trump campaign and its allies placed calls to Georgia officials seeking to overturn the election results. The case covers some of the matters reviewed by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and by the Justice Department inquiry examining efforts to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. But Willis, 50, has been at the forefront in publiclypursuing a criminal case, in part because she is able to take advantage of state statutes that legal experts say could make a criminal prosecution faster and less cumbersome than a federal case.
She has subpoenaed more than three dozen individuals — including a group of Georgia Republicans she has identified as targets of the criminal probe for their role as purported Trump electors.
Willis has not ruled out calling Trump as a witness, telling anAtlanta television station last week that “we are at least 60 days away before I even have to make that kind of decision.”
Willis declined through her office to respond to requests from The Washington Post for an interview.
Willis’s critics, including Trump, his allies and some involved in the case, have accused her of conducting a politicized inquiry designed to attract national attention while ignoring local problems, such as Atlanta’s soaring crime rates. The former president derided her on his Truth Social platform as a “young, ambitious, Radical Left Democrat ‘Prosecutor’ from Georgia.”
The judge presiding over the inquiry disqualified Willis last month from investigating one of the would-be Trump electors — Republican state Sen. Burt Jones — after Willis hosted a fundraiser for Jones’s opponent in an upcoming lieutenant governor’s race. The judge, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, called it a “’What are you thinking?’ moment” and said the “optics are horrific.”
By all indications, the inquiry has been sprawling butintensely focused on whether Trump and his allies violated Georgia laws.
One Georgia Republican who appeared before the grand jury told The Post that prosecutors were seeking to learn about interactions between lawyers for Trump and state-level Republicans on the ground. The witness spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.
Unlike a typical grand jury, the special panel is authorized for one year and will not be asked to vote on an indictment at the conclusion of its work. Instead, the special grand jury of 23 members and three alternates will issue a report to Willis with recommendations on whether to bring charges in the case. The report is not required to be made public, nor is Willis obliged to act on it in any specific time frame.
But prosecutors are attempting to fend off requests to toss their subpoenas or delay testimony.
The postponement request last week by Giuliani’s attorney, Robert Costello, referenced a July procedure in which Giuliani had two stents placed in his coronary arteries.
Prosecutors on Monday indicated they would insist that Giuliani appear in person — filing a legal brief claiming that Giuliani had traveled outside New York since his surgery and saying they had obtained records showing him paying cash for airline tickets for late July to Rome and Zurich.
Costello called the prosecutors’ claims “ludicrous,” adding: “First of all, Giuliani has not flown anywhere since his operation. He has not purchased these tickets and never purchased airline tickets for cash for any reason.”
Costello said he offered prosecutors the opportunity to discuss the situation directly with Giuliani’s physician, but he said they did not do so.
Separately, a Wednesday hearing before US District Judge Leigh Martin May will focus on Graham’s contention that he should not be required to testify about his outreach to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the days after the 2020 election. Raffensperger told The Post that Graham had asked whether the secretary of state had the power to toss out all mail ballots in certain counties. He said Graham appeared to be asking him to improperly find a way to set aside legally cast ballots — an allegation that Graham denied.
Graham’s legal team, led by former Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn, says the senator is shielded by constitutional protections that prohibit interference with the work of members of Congress.
“There would be nothing to stop any state or local official from investigating — or ‘intimidating’ under the veneer of investigating — senators or representatives with which they disagree,” Graham’s lawyers said in their court filing.
The phone calls Graham made to Raffensperger’s office, his lawyers say, were part of his official legislative duties to help inform his vote to certify the election for President Biden and to draft election-related legislation.
Willis’s office says Graham questioned Raffensperger and his staff about reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in Georgia “to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former president Donald Trump,” court records show.
It is not clear whether Graham will succeed.
May recentlyrejected similar arguments from Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.), a Trump ally who echoed false claims of widespread election fraud in his failed bid for secretary of state. Hice is scheduled to appear before the grand jury on Aug. 16.
It is also unclear whether Willis’s team will succeed in learning information from the state Republicans who presented themselves as Trump electors.
Willis is examining whether these local Trump supporters were part of a scheme designed by Trump’s team to create slates of fake voters in Georgia and other battleground states, perhaps to give Vice President Mike Pence a reason to declare that the outcome of the election was in doubt. when he was to preside over the congressional counting of the electoral college votes on Jan. 6, 2021.
Lawyers for 11ofthe 16 would-be Georgia Trump electors have argued that their clients abided by the law, claiming that they met as a contingency measure before a court had ruled on a challenge to the Georgia vote.
They also complained in court filings about Willis sending letters identifying the purported Trump electors as “targets” of her criminal inquiry. The attorneys described the target letters as a “publicity stunt” that “wrongfully converted [the Trump electors] from witnesses who were cooperating voluntarily and prepared to testify in the grand jury to persecuted targets of it.”
As a result, the lawyers said, they had advised their clients to assert their right not to answer questions.
In contrast, a lawyer representing two of the purported Trump electors in federal probes, Robert N. Driscoll, said his clients cooperated with the House Jan. 6 committee and are responding to Justice Department subpoenas.
Amy Gardner contributed to this report. Brown reported from Atlanta.
Sennheiser hasn’t refreshed its over-hear Momentum noise-canceling headphones since 2019, but that changes today. The company has announced the Momentum 4, a new take on its flagship headphones that includes an exterior redesign, new features and a whopping 60 hours of battery life. What’s more, Sennheiser is offering this host of updates for $50 less than the Momentum 3 at its debut.
First, the design Sennheiser had carried through much of the Momentum line since its introduction is gone. The mix of metal and leather with visible cables has been traded for a more simplified, more plastic affair. The new look is decidedly less premium than previous Momentum models. However, what the Momentum 4 may lack in aesthetics is offset by increased comfort. The company notes the new hinge easily adjusts and doesn’t exert too much pressure on your head. Earcups also rotate flat now, which makes storage a bit easier. Another big change is the on-board controls: most of the physical buttons have been replaced with a touch panel on the right side.
Sennheiser Momentum 4
Inside, Sennheiser says it opted for an “audiophile-inspired acoustic system” that relies on 42mm transducers for the sound. The company explains the setup creates “brilliant dynamics, clarity and musicality,” plus you can use an EQ, presets and a new Sound Personalization feature to further adjust the tuning. Sound Personalization takes into account your personal preferences and adjusts “the listening experience” accordingly.
Of course, these are flagship headphones so active noise cancellation (ANC) is on board. The company says its updated adaptive ANC works to maintain sound quality even in the noisiest of surroundings. Transparency Mode is available as well and there’s a slider control between it and ANC in Sennheiser’s app. In other words, you’re not just left with one or the other, so you can mix in a dash of environmental noise if needed. This model can automatically change sound settings based on your location too, a feature Sennheiser first debuted in March.
Sennheiser also offers a feature called Sidetone, which allows you to adjust how much of your voice comes through during calls. It’s a tool that helps you feel less shouty and it works on top of automatic wind noise suppression for the Momentum 4’s beamforming microphones during voice and video chats.
Sennheiser Momentum 4
Sennheiser says you can expect up to 60 hours of battery life on a charge, and that’s with ANC turned on. A quick-charge feature gives you six hours of use in 10 minutes. To help you conserve battery, the Momentum 4 is equipped with both automatic pausing and automatic on/off. The company says the headphones will power off when you leave them unattended and turn back on when you pick them up.
The Momentum 4 will be available for preorder in black and white color options on August 9th before shipping on August 23rd. The headphones are priced at $349.95, which is $50 less than the Momentum 3 when it debuted in 2019.
Veteran columnist Caroline Wilson has lashed AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan’s apology over the Crows’ pre-season camp, calling the league’s response to the “pathetic” saga.
Despite Eddie Betts’ powerful revelations regarding what took place on the 2018 camp in the Gold Coast, the AFL did not issue an apology until Betts called for one during the week.
The AFL boss eventually fronted the cameras to apologize, but did so in a short interview on the Seven Network, rather than a press conference, and Wilson was not impressed.
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“For Gillon McLachlan to take four years … to actually apologize in a stand-up at an airport with Channel Seven in an exclusively arranged interview is frankly quite pathetic,” she told Nine’s Footy Classified.
AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan issued his first apology for the camp four years after the fact in a short interview last week (Getty)
“Why the AFL did nothing then – I’ve been saying it for two years – still baffles me.”
Wilson also took aim at what she deemed a “cover-up” from a number of senior Crows staffers in the months following the camp, including football director Mark Ricciuto, calling the response “astonishing.”
Ricciuto is the only member from the Crows’ 2018 power structure remaining at the club, with key decision-makers such as chairman Rob Chapman, CEO Andrew Fagan, football boss Brett Burton and head coach Don Pyke all having left the club following the camp.
Ricciuto has come under pressure since Betts’ revelations last week and his response to the indigenous great’s comments, where he said “hopefully Eddie (Betts) is getting over” his experience at the camp.
“My prediction would be that Mark Ricciuto will be here until the end of the year and then serious pressure will come upon him,” Wilson said.
Mark Ricciuto remains in the same director of football role at the Crows that he had at the time of the camp (Getty)
“Not pressure from himself; he’s digging in. It’s just impossible to me (that he survives the saga). He was a staunch defender of Brett Burton, who was his man, who was one of the key instigators of the camp.
“The comments he made last week were so bad from a Crows point of view. He caused a lot of angst within and without the club. My view is he is not going to survive.”
Port Adelaide great Kane Cornes and Essendon legend Matthew Lloyd both suggested it was untenable for anyone associated with the implementation of the camp to remain at Adelaide.
Cornes used examples where Ricciuto had praised the likes of former Adelaide coach Don Pyke and ex-Collingwood president Eddie McGuire for stepping down amid controversies, suggesting he should take his own advice.
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“It feels like they need clean air. Mark Ricciuto himself has applauded those that have stood down to give clubs historically that clean air,” Cornes said.
“It’s going to be really difficult for the club to get that clean air while Mark Ricciuto is still there.”
“They can’t in their right mind have said you’ll give information and it’ll be used against you. Whoever heard that and allowed for that to happen must go,” Lloyd added.
The Age’s Sam McClure also blasted the response from a number of key stakeholders following the camp.
“For the AFL, the AFL Players’ Association, and elements of people at Adelaide, to come out and say (they) actually had no idea that this stuff was going on… they either knew about it and they deliberately lied or they I didn’t know. I’m not sure which one’s worse,” he told Footy Classified.
The fallout from Adelaide’s 2018 pre-season camp still continues four years later (Getty)
McClure called the criticism of players such as Betts, Josh Jenkins and Bryce Gibbs for only speaking years after the fact a case of “classic victim-blaming”.
“The last people that are responsible for what went on at that camp are the players,” he said.
“It is absolute garbage to think that we could sit here and label any of those players as part of the problem. And yet when people come out and speak the truth, and showed great courage, by the way, we suddenly turn around the responsibility on them.
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“If the AFL Players’ Association wanted to know what was going on at that camp they could’ve asked, because from where we sat it wasn’t that hard to find out.”
A SafeWork SA investigation in 2021 cleared the club of breaching health and safety laws, while an AFL investigation in 2018 determined the Crows had not breached any rules.
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Shops would be allowed to open two hours earlier on a Sunday under new laws set to go into state Parliament next month.
Key points:
The SA government is looking to allow shops to trade from 9am on Sundays
The bill would also shops outside the Adelaide CBD to open on Boxing Day
Reforming shop trading has been a Labor election promise
Consultation on the reforms has begun with Premier Peter Malinauskas describing the changes as “sensible”.
Under the proposal, shops will be allowed to trade from 9am on Sunday as opposed to the current laws which only allow them to open at 11am.
The bill would also also allow metropolitan shops outside the Adelaide CBD to operate on Boxing Day.
“It’s about getting the balance right. It’s supported by business, it’s supported by workers,” the Premier said.
The reforms tighten how exemptions are issued to allow trade on public holidays. The former Liberal government used those powers to allow stores to open in the suburbs on public holidays during the last term, including on Easter Monday.
“We don’t think a free-for-all in terms of the exemption regime that the former government sought to exploit is necessarily the right approach,” Mr Malinauskas said.
Currently only shops in Adelaide CBD are allowed to trade on Boxing Day.(ABC News: Nicola Gage)
The opposition is yet to consider the amendments put forward by the government.
“I do note that on recent public holidays, South Australian shoppers who have gone to the shops have been very disappointed to find out that under the new regime those shops have been closed,” said opposition spokesperson John Gardner.
For the bill to pass parliament’s Upper House, Labor needs the support of either the Greens, SA Best or the Liberals.
SDA secretary Josh Peak will ensure the interests of retail workers are heard.(abcnews)
The union representing SA retail workers welcomed the proposal but say shop trading hours should not be at the expense of workers and local businesses to the interests of interstate and overseas supermarket giants.
“For us, this consultation is about protecting retail workers’ right to be treated with respect, to have a fair roster and to have public holidays off,” Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association secretary Josh Peak said.
“Our shop trading hours are one of the reasons we have one of the most diverse and most competitive supermarket sectors in Australia and this must be safeguarded.”
Drakes Supermarket director John-Paul Drake was supportive of an early start on Sundays.
“We have line-ups at 11am at every store every Sunday,” he said.
“More money goes into the economy, we’d employ more people and they are going to get more hours — so it’s a win-win for everyone.”
He preferred the proposed rules to deregulating shopping hours, which he said would be a “free-for-all” and benefit the “duopoly in this state” the most.
It’s August, so it’s time for a new version of Parallels Desktop. The latest release of the company’s popular virtualisation software – Parallels Desktop 18 – features support for the newest Macs and preliminary support for macOS Ventura.
Parallels Desktop 18 includes compatibility with ProMotion displays, and when used with an M1 Ultra based Mac Studio delivers up to 96% faster Windows 11 performance thanks to the ability to assign more RAM and CPU cores to a VM.
An interesting touch is that Bluetooth game controllers connected to the Mac are available in Windows with no additional setup.
And on the subject of games, frame rates up to 120fps are available on ProMotion displays. Desktop 17 topped out at around 59fps.
Improved USB 3.0 support allows the use of peripherals such as webcams, video capture devices, and specialized hardware such as the Elgato HD60 S game capture device and the SOCT Copernicus REVO optical coherence tomography device for ophthalmologists.
Changes to the Parallels Tools component of Desktop provide even wider compatibility with Windows 11 apps when running on Apple Silicon. For example, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive now runs (it wouldn’t in Parallels 17), and issues around re-saving files from certain Microsoft Office apps to shared folders have been fixed.
Parallels senior product manager Kurt Schmucker pointed out that Windows 11 for ARM provides a very high level of compatibility – 99.99% – with Intel-based applications, including AutoCAD and games.
“There are very few apps that don’t run,” he said.
Parallels Desktop 18 still comes in standard, Pro and Business editions.
New features of the Pro edition on Apple Silicon Macs include virtual machine control via the command line interface, the Network Conditioner for simulating less than perfect connections, full VM isolation, remote profiling with Visual Studio, and support for netboot with Linux.
The Business edition can now be activated via a corporate account and single sign-on, easier and better documented deployment of Windows 11 VMs, reactivation from the cloud, and the ability to manage analytics participation via Parallels’ My Account portal.
Parallels Desktop 18 initially runs on macOS Mojave, Big Sur, Catalina and Monterey, and will run on Ventura – complete with Stage Manager support – once that version of macOS is released to the public.
On Intel-based Macs, supported host OSes include Windows 11 back to XP (or Windows 2000 in conjunction with Boot Camp); macOS from Ventura back to Lion; and various Linux distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Mint, Red Hat, Suse and Kali).
A smaller range of host OSes is supported on Apple Silicon systems: Windows 11 and 10, macOS Ventura and Monterey, and Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian and Kali with ‘one-click’ installation, plus RHEL and CentOS via manual installation.
“We are proud of our engineering team that continues to be at the forefront of innovation to offer a remarkably more powerful and seamless Parallels Desktop for Mac experience to our users, that is integrated with the latest macOS Ventura, optimized for the latest Apple hardware, and offers valuable features to deliver even better productivity and performance,” said Corel chief technology and product officer Prashant Ketkar. (Parallels was acquired by Corel in 2019.)
“This is as simple and easy to use as it gets, and our users can rely on Parallels Desktop for Mac to focus on the job at hand.”
Parallels Desktop still includes licenses for Parallels Toolbox (a wide-ranging suite of more than 50 utilities) and Parallels Access (remote access).
The standard edition of Parallels Desktop costs $139 a year. A $179 perpetual license is available on special request for organizations with policies that prohibit the use of software on subscription, but not to individuals.
The Pro edition is $169 a year, and the Business edition costs $209 a year.
Upgrades from any previous version of Parallels Desktop to Desktop 18 Standard cost $99, but this converts a perpetual license into an annual subscription.
Upgrades from any previous version to Desktop 18 Pro cost $99 a year.
The Kookaburras sealed Australia’s final gold of the Birmingham games in a thumping 7-0 defeat of India.
Australia scored five first-half goals to all but seal the deal by the main break.
It’s the Kookaburra’s seventh-straight Commonwealth Games gold medal – they’ve won them all since Hockey entered the games in 1998.
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Kieran Govers opened the scoring mid-way through the first quarter with a blistering drag-flick that flew past Indian keeper PR Sreejesh.
Nathan Ephraums teamed up with Flynn Ogilvie for the second, Jeremey Hayward was unlucky to not make it three. Instead, a brilliant save from Sreejesh presented an easy clean-up opportunity for Jacob Anderson.
Flynn Ogilvie celebrates after scoring in the Kookaburra’s 7-0 over India to win Gold. Photo: Tim Clayton (Getty)
Tom Wickham was next to join the fun when he got one past Sreejesh from the top of the circle, and it was five when Anderson engaged Sreejesh right in front before punishing the ball against the backboards with the backstick.
At this point, even the normally straight-faced coach Colin Batch did a boogie in celebration.
Several brilliant saves from Sreejesh limited the Aussies to just two goals in the second half – to Flynn Ogilvie and a second to Nathan Ephraums.
Australia topped the medal tally with 67 gold medals.
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Residents living upstream from Lismore say faults in the rain and river gauge network deprived them of potentially life-saving data as a catastrophic flood hit the New South Wales Northern Rivers in February.
Key points:
Crucial equipment failed because it was poorly located, while key rainfall data was missed or distorted due to a lack of maintenance
Flood hydrologist Duncan Dey says the whole gauge network needs to be reassessed
A report into the floods found information from the Bureau of Meteorology was “incorrect and out of date”
There are 27 rainfall and 19 stream level gauges in the Wilsons River catchment that provide data to the Bureau of Meteorology to help predict flood heights and develop forecasts.
Residents also monitor the data directly via the bureau’s website.
When the February flood hit, one rain gauge was already broken and a further two rain gauges and six stream gauges stopped transmitting data during the event.
ABC’s 7.30 can reveal that crucial equipment failed because it was poorly located, while key rainfall data was missed or distorted due to a lack of maintenance.
When the February floods hit the Northern Rivers, one rain gauge was already broken and two more stopped transmitting data.(abcnews)
The revelations follow the release of a NSW parliamentary report examining the flood response, which found information from the Bureau of Meteorology was “incorrect and out of date”, and called for the bureau to review its rain data infrastructure to ensure rain and flood gauges were appropriately placed, maintained and updated.
Local resident Annie Kia says the failures of the gauge network caused “much distress” among her upstream neighbours, who were among the first to witness the scale of the disaster firsthand.
“The upstream people knew that a catastrophe was hurtling toward Lismore in the night, and felt very frustrated that they could not get their message across,” she said.
‘People downstream really need to know’
The gauges near Nan Nicholson’s home stopped working as floodwaters rose.(ABC News: Ella Archibald-Binge)
Nan Nicholson’s property is nestled in the hinterland north of the town, flanked by two creeks that feed into the Wilsons River catchment.
“If it’s torrential rain up above, we know that Lismore is going to really cop it,” she said.
As a low pressure system moved south on the night of February 27, she was keeping a close eye on the local rain and stream gauge data, which she and her neighbors rely on for real-time information to decide when to evacuate.
The stream gauge said the nearby creek was “steady.”
However, that was in stark contrast to what was unfolding in her backyard: The creek was rapidly closing in on her home, and the hammering rain showed no signs of easing.
She could see the flood was shaping up to be far worse than initial predictions of a peak around the 2017 height of 11.59 meters.
Rocky Creek, one of the feeder creeks upstream from Lismore.(ABC News: Ella Archibald-Binge)
“You could watch it within the minute rising very, very rapidly, so I just didn’t believe [the data]and that really filled me with dread,” she said.
“I thought, ‘People downstream really, really need to know this, and they’re not getting that information’.”
Ms Nicholson and her husband made a narrow escape in the night.
By the time they left, the nearby river gauge was not transmitting any data at all.
The rain gauge failed a short time later.
“Because of our knowledge of the area, we felt prepared to some degree, but it would have helped a great deal to know that that river gauge … was telling the truth,” she said.
“It’s a basic government responsibility to deliver us the data that we need to make decisions about our survival.”
‘Whole network needs to be reassessed’
Duncan Dey says rainfall modeling “only works if you’ve got good data”.(ABC News: Ella Archibald-Binge)
Duncan Dey is a flood hydrologist and Byron Shire councilor who used to install and maintain rain and stream gauges.
I have identified key flaws in the gauging station near Ms Nicholson’s property.
He said a shed housing equipment that sends data to the weather bureau should have been located on higher ground.
“We know that the shed went underwater, and I’m stunned, actually, because it went underwater by three or four meters, which means that it was wrongly located in the first place,” he said.
“The whole network needs to be reassessed for whether the machinery shed is high enough above the flood levels.”
Duncan Dey and Annie Kia inspect a rain gauge. Mr Dey was surprised to find a tree growing over the top.(abcnews)
Mr Dey said he was also “shocked” to see a tree overhanging the top of the rain gauge.
“So it’s not actually measuring the right amount of rain. It’s completely non-standard,” he said.
“We now have computer modeling that works really well on taking rainfall, putting it into a catchment and working out what happens downstream — the modeling is fantastic, but it only works if you’ve got good data.”
A BOM spokesperson said the outages did not impact the bureau’s forecasts and warnings during the February flood, and that redundancy has been built into the observation system.
However, the bureau is reviewing its infrastructure across the catchment.
Council requests more gauges
Lismore City Council general manager John Walker says the gauges are maintained every three months, or more often if a fault occurs. (ABC North Coast: Bruce MacKenzie)
The state gauge network is jointly managed by local, state and federal governments, along with some private agencies.
Lismore City Council owns the gauges that malfunctioned in February.
General manager John Walker said all but two of the gauges have been fixed, with parts on order from overseas, while one was broken prior to the flood because a technician could not get access to the site due to ground conditions.
Mr Walker said all existing gauges were located above the 1974 flood levels and the equipment that had been repaired has been relocated to higher ground, above the 2022 flood height.
He said the gauges were maintained every three months, or more often if a fault occurs.
The council’s request for more gauges, he said, was being assessed by the NSW Planning and Environment Department, after it was initially rejected in February.
A spokesperson for the department said it was awaiting completion of the council’s flood plain management plan before it could review the funding application.
Resident Annie Kia is among many — including local councils and MPs — calling for a single agency to own and maintain the gauge network.
“It’s clear to me that the system is not fit for purpose,” she said.
“We need to have some government system that manages these creek and rain gauges, and it seems to me it would be better if it was one agency — as long as it’s one, competent agency.”
