Collingwood president Jeff Browne had also sought clarification from the AFL amid claims Ginnivan had been targeted for his technique of dropping low in tackles.
There were a few contentious calls from umpires, including a high tackle on Ginnivan by Robbie Gray which wasn’t paid, but McRae said it was a good lesson in getting on with the game no matter what, as the Pies became the first team to win nine games by 12 points or fewer in a VFL/AFL season.
“I thought there were a couple of opportunities where free kicks were not potentially paid, and we just got on with it. You know, you have to. What if it’s a grand finale? Just get on with it,” he said.
“And Jack got on with it today and Ash Johnson got on with it, and you know, late in the game there might have been a free kick paid not against us, or not for us, and you just get on it with it. I think it’s a good lesson for us.”
Brodie Grundy made a successful return in the VFL on Saturday. McRae was hopeful he would return next week and admitted he’d “be surprised” if Mason Cox, Darcy Cameron and Grundy all made the team.
Taylor Adams was subbed off with a groin injury and Jeremy Howe finished on the bench after getting a knee to the backside and seeming to hurt his hip.
“He took a big step forward today,” said McRae on Grundy. “We thought he needed the run and he played up until the last quarter in the VFL and by all reports he was getting better as the game went on.
“I watched two quarters of that game, I was happy with what I saw, he got a little scuffle, you know, got the bumps and bruises you need to, which you can’t get at training.
“We’re trying to set him up, whether that’s in six days time, we’ll see how he pulls up, but we’re pretty pleased he got through today.”
Grundy, 28, had 21 hitouts, 11 disposals and eight tackles. Seven of Grundy’s tackles came in the first half and he also was caught up in two scuffles, wrestling with Southport’s Brayden Crossley, which could see him face a fine from the VFL tribunal.
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Collingwood have a tough AFL run home to September, facing Melbourne, Sydney and Carlton in coming weeks, which while McRae says will be a good test for finals.
“I don’t want to look too far ahead, we haven’t done that all year, we live in the moment now and we look at what we did well and what we can improve,” said McRae.
“Every game presents as an opportunity to get yourself ready for finals, but those teams in particular [are] in the eight as it stands so going to be a great opportunity to see where we sit.”
Los Angeles police were involved in a standoff with a suspect after officers responded to unconfirmed reports of a shooting at the Hollywood Farmers’ Market.
HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Los Angeles police on Sunday morning were involved in a standoff with a suspect after officers responded to unconfirmed reports of a shooting at the Hollywood Farmers’ Market, authorities said.
Multiple callers told police dispatch that a gunman opened fire from the window of a building shortly before 8 am in the 1600 block of Cosmo Street, between Hollywood Boulevard and Selma Avenue, an LAPD spokesperson told ABC7.
When officers arrived at the scene, they saw a person throwing rocks from a balcony, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. A standoff dream.
No injuries were immediately reported.
Officials quickly announced the closure of the popular Hollywood Farmers’ Market for the day “due to an emergency situation.”
“We’re glad our staff and vendors are OK,” a statement posted on the marketplace’s Facebook page said. “If you need access to fresh food and produce and can travel, please visit our sibling market Atwater Village Farmers’ Market.”
YouTube has presented another tool that makes it simpler for creators to transform ordinary videos into Shorts, it is announced locally update. In the event that you have any of your own videos loaded up, you’ll see another tool under “Create” called “Edit into a Short” just inside the primary app. It allows you to choose as long as 60 seconds of the video and bring it straightforwardly into the Shorts editor, where you can add text filters, or extra video, then upload it as a Short.
YouTube needs to increase the quantity of short-structure “Shorts” videos accessible on its platform rapidly to better rival TikTok. To help with this work, the organization is today carrying out another maker tool that transforms existing YouTube videos into Shorts right away. The update, presently accessible on YouTube’s mobile app, allows a video maker to effortlessly choose a section of any video they’ve uploaded beforehand, then, at that point, publish that clip as YouTube Shorts content.
After you upload the Short, it links to the full video it was taken from through the “Created from” interface at the lower part of the video. That allows creators to use Shorts as promo tools for the fundamental video, helping drive perspectives and engagement. Notwithstanding, the tool just chips away at your own substance, dissimilar to Cut, which lets you remix content from any video.
The organization was at that point changing over clients’ uploaded vertical videos under 60 seconds as Shorts videos, regardless of whether the substance had been initially uploaded as a standard YouTube video. (Not all creators were fans of this thought, we ought to note.) Now YouTube is hoping creators will all the more effectively assist with working out the Shorts library considerably further with the launch of this new tool that permits them to clip interesting bits from their more extended videos.
The move might signal the amount YouTube parent Google is stressed over TikTok’s predominance in short-form. Obviously, it doesn’t imagine that allowing YouTube’s Shorts library to become naturally through new, unique substance uploads will be sufficient to contend. All things considered, YouTube has been depending on leveraging its current long-form content to make more Shorts. This April, for instance, YouTube announced that any open YouTube video could be “remixed” into YouTube Shorts except if creators quit.
The new tool, in the interim, basically returns a portion of the capacity to the creators’ own hands.
The updated mobile app allows creators to choose a part of their video as long as 60 seconds long and transform that into Shorts content utilizing similar altering tools they knew all about inside the app, making sense of the organization. On the off chance that their choice is under 60 seconds in length, they can shoot extra videos utilizing the Shorts camera or they can add gallery videos to finish their 60-second Shorts content.
Creators might be propelled to involve the tool for the purpose of producing interest in their long-form content, as YouTube takes note that Shorts made utilizing VOD (video on demand) happy will automatically link back to the first.
YouTube has been touting Shorts’ capacity to drive perspectives to creators’ long-form content as a part of a pattern it alluded to as “the rise of the multiformat creator.” In June, the organization said Shorts had topped 1.5 billion logged-in month-to-month clients yet just had anecdotal data to recommend that Shorts were assisting with developing critical metrics like watch time or subscribers.
Meanwhile, the way that YouTube is leaning so heavily on its current long-form content to work out Shorts recommends a potential absence of maker premium in filming unique Shorts; or it could likewise imply that YouTube eventually still considers more potential to be a long-form platform — yet it imagines Shorts as a marketing mechanism to boost sees for its better-monetized content.
The new Shorts creation feature is rolling out beginning today on YouTube’s mobile app for the two iOS and Android gadgets, the organization says.
YouTube Shorts is currently being watched by over 1.5 billion signed-in clients consistently with in excess of 30 billion day-to-day sees.
The organization said that this update will allow clients to carry new life to their exemplary substance and give them a better approach to connecting with their audience.
Assuming clients select a part of their video that is under 60 seconds, they can shoot extra videos with the Shorts camera as well as upload additional videos from their gallery to make 60 seconds Shorts if necessary.
The organization mentioned that main the first creator will actually want to bring their long-form videos into Shorts as this tool isn’t accessible for different creators to use in their substance.
Shorts made from VODs will link back to the first lengthy structure videos so that individuals watching their Short can see the first video as well.
Google has seen empowerment bring about its initial monetization endeavors on the short-video making stage YouTube Shorts.
The massive progress of TikTok has forced all social media networks to answer somehow or another. Be that as it may, Instagram as of late backpedaled on its TikTok-like full-screen feed and suggested post features following a significant backlash from clients.
YouTube is ostensibly less threatened by TikTok as it offers longer-structure content that draws an alternate audience. The new tool demonstrates the way that it can have its (Short?) cake and eat it as well, however, by allowing creators to offer Shorts as a type of publicity for their essential substance.
How the new feature works
In the event that the client is the creator of the full video, they’ll have the option to carry the clip into the Shorts editor straightforwardly from the YouTube app on iOS or Android to get to all of the editing tools, including text, timeline editor, and filters.
Assuming they select part of the video that is under 60 seconds, they can shoot extra video with the Shorts camera and upload more from their gallery. To shoot or add a gallery video, you’ll have to hit the back arrow once in the altering screen after you’ve picked your video segment.
Netflix has sued the creators of an allegedly unauthorized musical stage production of its popular period drama Bridgerton, accusing them of copyright infringement after building demand for their knock-off on TikTok.
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The complaint was filed against Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear after a sold-out performance of The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical
Netflix says the musical “stretches ‘fan fiction’ well past its breaking point”
The company said it warned the defendants repeatedly to stop
The complaint was filed against Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear in the federal court in Washington, DC, three days after a sold-out performance of The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical in that city’s Kennedy Center.
A lawyer for the defendants had no immediate comment, having yet to review the complaint.
Bridgerton, based on Julia Quinn’s bestselling romance novels, attracted 82 million viewers in the first four weeks of the series’s debut on Netflix, a record at the time.
It was renewed for a second season, and inspired a spin-off series and live event, The Queen’s Ball, hosted in six cities.
Netflix said after Bridgerton was first released in December 2020, the defendants started posting about the series to TikTok, where they have 2.4 million followers, including creating songs based on characters, scenes, dialogue and plot points.
Netflix sought to stop the alleged infringements, plus unspecified damages.(Netflix:Bridgerton)
The company said it warned the defendants repeatedly to stop, but they ploughed ahead with an album titled The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, which won a Grammy award, and their stage show.
“Barlow & Bear’s conduct began on social media, but stretches ‘fan fiction’ well past its breaking point,” Netflix said.
“It is blatant infringement of intellectual property rights.”
Barlow and Bear’s musical was performed in front of a sold-out crowd at the Kennedy Center in Washington, where Netflix was hosting its own live Bridgerton experience.
The Kennedy Center show “attracted Bridgerton fans who would have otherwise attended the Bridgerton Experience and created confusion as to whether Netflix had approved of Barlow & Bear’s unauthorized derivative works,” Netflix said in the lawsuit.
A September performance is planned for Royal Albert Hall in London, the suit claims.
Series creator Shonda Rhimes said in a statement while there is “so much joy” in seeing audiences fall in love with Bridgerton and find creative ways to express their appreciation, “what started as a fun celebration by Barlow & Bear on social media has turned into the blatant taking of intellectual property solely for Barlow & Bear’s financial benefit.”
Author Quinn added she was “flattered and delighted” when Barlow and Bear composing Bridgerton songs and sharing with their other fans on TikTok.
“There is a difference, however, between composing on TikTok and recording and performing for commercial gain,” she said.
The lawsuit seeks to stop the alleged infringements, plus unspecified damages.
A police spokesperson confirmed authorities had obtained the details of those allegedly involved.
“Police and Adelaide Oval security attended the area and obtained details of people alleged to be involved in this incident,” they said.
A Crows supporter allegedly racially vilified Carlton’s Adam Saad on Saturday night.Credit:AFL Pictures
“The matter has been referred to the AFL and Adelaide Oval SMA for investigation.”
The incident remains under active investigation, according to the Adelaide Football Club, the stadium and the league’s integrity unit.
“The AFL is currently allegedly investigating comments made by a spectator at AO last night,” the league said in a statement.
“Football is a place of inclusion and belonging and there is no place for racist behavior in our game.
“Nobody in our game or in the community deserves to be discriminated against and vilified against due to their faith or race and there is simply no excuse for it.”
The Crows said they were attempting to confirm details of the allegations, including whether the spectator was a club member.
“The Adelaide Football Club is investigating reports of an alleged racially motivated comment made by a spectator during Saturday night’s game against Carlton,” they said on Sunday morning.
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“We do not tolerate and strongly condemn any form of discriminatory behaviour, and it has no place in football or society. Adelaide Oval should be an inclusive and family-friendly environment.”
A Carlton spokesperson said the club’s integrity officer contacted the league’s integrity unit after the game. They said they would await the league’s verdict before responding to the allegations.
“The club is fully aware of the seriousness of the alleged comments, and has been providing the appropriate level of support to its people as the matter is investigated,” the Blues said in a statement released on Sunday afternoon.
“The club makes clear that vilification of any kind is disgraceful, unacceptable and has no place in society, let alone our game. Further comment will be provided once the investigation is completed in full.”
Adelaide Oval has launched an investigation into the behavior of the patron, alongside the AFL.
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“We will be reviewing the matter with the AFL and Adelaide Football Club to consider any appropriate sanctions and/or stadium ban,” a spokesperson said.
“We condemn all anti-social behavior and have strict guidelines for all patrons.”
According to the stadium’s code of conduct, all patrons must “use appropriate language, without threatening, foul or abusive content based on race, religion, sexuality or gender”. Any spectators that fail to satisfy this requirement may be removed from the venue.
“Depending on the severity of the behaviour, anyone evicted may incur a ban, suspension of membership and/or police charges,” the code states.
Saad, a former Essendon and Suns player, joined the Blues in 2020. He is currently the only practicing Muslim in the league and is having a sterling season so far, averaging of 21.8 disposals, 4.2 rebound-50s and 5.3 marks per game.
The 28-year-old has stood against racial discrimination, including in 2018 when he and fellow Muslim player Bachar Houli tossed the coin alongside the team captains in a sign of solidarity after the inflammatory anti-immigration remarks of then Senator Fraser Anning.
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Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon said Sunday that she disagrees with former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, whose family has backed Dixon’s campaign, about the role former President Trump played in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
“The secretary knows that she and I differ on that subject. I want to make sure that political speech is always protected because that could open a can of worms for anybody on both sides of the party. But the secretary knows that I disagree with her on that point,” Dixon told “Fox News Sunday” host Bret Baier.
DeVos resigned from the Trump administration the day after the Jan. 6 riot, citing Trump’s involvement.
“There’s no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me,” DeVos wrote in her resignation letter, read aloud to the Jan. 6 committee late last month.
Dixon was also asked whether she believed the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, who has continued to make false claims about his loss to President Biden.
Dixon dodged the question, but said the election was “certainly a concern” due to changes made to accommodate voting amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We have to make sure our elections are secure and what happened in 2020 doesn’t happen again,” she said.
Trump threw his endorsement behind conservative commentator Dixon on Friday. The DeVos family backed Dixon in May.
Dixon is in the primary ring with a handful of other candidates vying for the Republican Party’s nomination in the Aug. 2 election, with recent polling showing Dixon pulling ahead of the pack.
The Republican nominee will face incumbent Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) in the general election.
Daniel Goleman has a blunt warning for jobseekers in 2022 and beyond: It’s no longer enough just to be smart.
Dr Goleman, an American author and psychologist, has spent decades touting the importance of ’emotional intelligence’ in the workplace and other areas of life.
And it appears companies and organizations have caught up with him.
“[In the mid-1990s] someone said to me, ‘you know, you can’t use the word emotion in a business context’. Today, it’s very, very different,” he tells ABC RN’s Future Tense.
But what exactly is emotional intelligence or EI? And is it just more work-speak or ‘a must-have skill’ of the future?
What is emotional intelligence?
There are several definitions of emotional intelligence, but it boils down to understanding your emotions, understanding the emotions of those around you, and acting accordingly.
Dr Goleman, who put the term on the map with his 1995 book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, says it has four main components.
Dr Daniel Goleman says we can all work on our emotional intelligence. (Getty Images: Daniel Zuchnik)
first-up, self awareness. Or as Dr Goleman puts it: “Knowing what you’re feeling, why you feel it, how it makes you think and want to act, how it shapes your perceptions.” So, for example, being able to label an emotion like anger and know the causes behind it.
The second part is “using that information to manage your emotions, in a positive way. To stay motivated, to stay focused, to be adaptable and agile, instead of rigid and locked in.”
The third part involves connecting with other people’s emotions — practicing empathy. It’s “understanding how someone else feels without them telling you in words, because people don’t tell us in words, they tell us in tone of voice and facial expressions, and so on”.
And finally— relationship management or “putting that all together to have effective relationships.”
Dr Goleman also makes a key point: It’s not simply about being nice.
“There’s a difference between being nice and being kind. And it’s really important to understand. You might be nice just not to create waves and get along — but that doesn’t mean that you’re necessarily helping.”
Why does it matter?
Amol Khadikar is a program manager at the Capgemini Research Institute and is based in India.
“[Emotional intelligence] is increasingly seen as a very valuable thing, and its importance has only increased in the last couple of years,” Mr Khadikar says.
Mr Khadikar and his organization tried to measure this with a survey asking 750 executives and 1,500 non-supervisory employees around the world about emotional intelligence.
It found 74 per cent of executives and 58 per cent of non-supervisory employees believe that EI will become a “must-have” skill.
Mr Khadikar says EI will become more important in the years ahead because of one continuing development — as automation and AI see more manual or routine jobs replaced by machines, jobs involving interpersonal skills will be the dominant jobs of the future.
“We [already] see more and more of a demand for people to have skills which require relationship building, more client-facing work,” he says.
“and [the survey] found that the demand for emotional intelligence skills will multiply on average by about six times within the next three to five years.”
AI and automation continue to change the kinds of jobs that us humans do.(Unsplash: Israel Andrade)
Mr Khadikar and his team also built a financial model to assess a potential upside from investing in emotional intelligence training — looking at outcomes like revenue, costs, productivity and workplace attrition.
“We clearly found that there is, essentially, an upside, we found that an investment of around $3 million in an average organization can potentially result in an incremental gain of about $6.8 million over the next three years… And this was a conservative scenario. “
He also cited a study conducted by French personal care company L’Oreal which found that employees with high EI skills outsold other salespeople on an annual basis by around $91,000, resulting in a net revenue increase of more than $2.5 million.
Backed up with training?
Dr Goleman says when he wrote his book in 1995, there was little, if any data, around the benefits of high emotional intelligence.
“Now we know it’s clear,” Dr Goleman says.
“In the workplace, it turns out that emotionally intelligent workers perform better, they’re more engaged in what they do. Leaders who have emotional intelligence get better productivity out of people, and people like working for them,” he says.
But when it comes to exactly how the concept is embraced, it’s much more of a patchwork.
“Most organizations will espouse some interest in [emotional intelligence] — some do it well, some don’t,” Dr Goleman says.
He says while “I think at [an executive level]many people have the luxury of being coached [on emotional intelligence],” training is not widespread outside executive roles.
It’s a point backed up by Mr Khadikar.
“[In our study] we actually found that only about 17 per cent of organizations conduct emotional intelligence training for their non-supervisory employees and only about 32 per cent do so for the middle management employees,” he says.
And Dr Goleman says at worst, some organizations only pay lip service to the idea: Promoting EI but not practicing it.
“It’s the same as with ‘greenwashing,’ where a company or a spokesperson for a company will say, ‘yes, we do this, we advocate emotional intelligence’ … But if you look at their current track record, you realize it’s BS, it’s not true.”
EI in a post-COVID workplace
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted traditional workplaces and as cases spike around Australia, some employers are advising their staff to work from home once again.
So what does emotional intelligence look like in a workplace connected through Teams or Zoom? Or more broadly, in increasingly digitized and fragmented professional environments?
Dr Goleman says workplaces need to make sure one-on-one time still exists, as our emotional wellbeing can take a battering if we’re all totally isolated from one another.
“But one-on-one can be digital too. The idea is that it’s personal, you’re talking to the person about themselves, not just about the task at hand, which tends to happen in group calls,” he says.
“So I think that it’s important to balance the isolation, the specialization that can go on in digital media, with having person-to-person [time] that’s in person or online.”
How do you improve your emotional intelligence?
Dr Goleman says we can all improve our emotional intelligence.
“It’s really about habit change,” he says.
He says the most prevalent manifestation of low emotional intelligence in the workplace is poor listening, so, for example, interrupting people or taking over a conversation too soon.
“If you want to change that, that’s a habit. You’ve practiced it thousands of times.”
Dr Goleman says: “First of all, be mindful that this is a moment I can change. Second, you have to have a different repertoire — a new habit to replace it with. [Then] practice that at every naturally occurring opportunity.”
“When you do that kind of learning, it changes the brain, the circuitry for that behavioral sequence, it takes on the new habit, and you do it automatically after a while,” he says.
“It does take a little work, it takes a little persistence, but our data shows it’s very possible.”
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The days of the classic plastic SIM card are numbered, as more and more providers and hardware manufacturers are delivering their services via the eSIM. But what is this “embedded Subscriber Identity Module,” or eSIM for short? NextPit explains how it works and what are its advantages. Read everything you need to know about the type of smartphones, tablets, and wearables that are eSIM-enabled and how to order and activate an eSIM as well as manage the eSIM profiles that accompany it.
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What does eSIM stand for and what is it good for?
The “embedded” SIM aka eSIM is smaller than a nano-SIM and is permanently installed in the device. Unlike a conventional SIM card, it cannot be removed, but can be overwritten via software. The eSIM is therefore excellent for devices that are particularly small, such as smartwatches.
You can also be more flexible and independent with an eSIM. No longer do you need to waste any more time by waiting for your new SIM card to arrive in the mail. You can switch between different plans in an instant: the moment you have the new activation code, you can activate it and take advantage of the new rate. This can sometimes be done within minutes.
Roaming charges are also no longer a nuisance, since you can easily switch to another provider when you are abroad. Of course, the eSIM is also more sustainable: nothing has to be made for you out of plastic and sent by mail. This also goes for the SIM card tool that always miraculously disappears into thin air, at least in the author’s household, as it is now obsolete with the eSIM.
Which smartphones and devices use eSIM?
Even three years after the eSIM specification was launched to great success, we still encounter only a handful of eSIM-enabled smartphones. That is hardly surprising, though. The eSIM tends to showcase its advantages each time small form factors are in demand. Therefore, it is unsurprising that wearables like smartwatches were some of the first few devices in the consumer electronics market to use the eSIM.
Smartphones with eSIM
SIM-enabled smartphones offer an eSIM in addition to the slot for the plastic SIM card. With some devices, you can use the smartphone as a de facto dual-SIM device, where both SIM “cards” remain active while running in parallel. This hybrid solution is considered a good compromise that will help customers make the gentle transition to the new SIM system.
Normally, only one active eSIM is possible on the smartphone. Apple has already made headway here and allows you to activate two eSIMs simultaneously with the iPhone 13 Pro.
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Samsung has so far resisted from making budget-friendly models that are eSIM-capable. So far, this feature has only appeared in its flagship series.
Apple has also decided to introduce the eSIM into its tablet family. The manufacturer once used the “Apple SIM” once; a proprietary variant that did not conform to the eSIM specification.
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Wearables with eSIM
One of the forerunners in the mobile device market that featured an eSIM was the Samsung Gear S2 Classic 3G that plays nice with the GSMA standard. Since 2016, things have changed and the selection has grown rather impressively. Quite a few other wearables have an eSIM today. However, this is often sold as a fixed connection to a provider and thus does not comply with the eSIM standard. There does not seem to be any aggressive marketing done by carriers in the US to promote the use of eSIM despite supporting it.
In the meantime, there does seem to be indicators that eSIM will become more and more popular in the years to come, mainly thanks to the proliferation of IoT devices in the home in which eSIM makes a whole lot of sense. There aren’t too many players in the US that offer eSIM, where they are mainly confined to the following:
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Order, activate, set up eSIM
You were privy to the different eSIM providers above with hyperlinks to their respective sites, offering updated information on what you will be getting with the service. Normally, you can simply sign up for a plan via an app or by scanning a QR code and your number will then be activated after a few minutes. Alternatively, you can also call the telephone hotline of virtually all service providers.
Finally, there are differences in the costs of the eSIM: Certain customers might not be required to pay any more additional costs for the eSIM, while other service providers do hit you with a monthly charge. As for the minimum contract period, that also depends on the individual plan that you have selected, while one-time fees are not unheard of, either.
In order to activate an eSIM, please also check the pages of your provider, since the procedure differs depending on the provider. Some might require you to do something as simple as scanning a QR code, picking a profile, and keying in the security PIN and you are good to go!
Sometimes you will also be asked for the eID of your device. You can find the eID under Settings in the device information of the eSIM device or directly on the packaging.
Manage, transfer, delete eSIM profiles
Once it has been set up, an eSIM profile is permanently stored in your device. If you want to use a different one when traveling, you can simply deactivate your home profile temporarily. Currently, manufacturers and mobile operators have not yet exploited all possibilities of the eSIM. In theory, you could download profiles, which are similar to apps from the Play Store, and change these profiles as and when required.
Unfortunately, you cannot transfer eSIM profiles to another device once they have been activated. If you change the smartwatch or smartphone, you have to order a new profile from the provider. This is usually performed free of charge. However, some providers do charge subscribers with a fee for this process.
The eSIM also cannot be physically removed from the device without destroying it. This carries both advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is that stolen smartphones can be tracked longer by you and the police using the eSIM. The disadvantage is that you have to delete the eSIM profile before selling your smartphone, and of course, you will need a new profile or a classic SIM card for the new smartphone.
Watching a man clean the remnants of a devastating flood from his home was a sobering moment for actor and producer Rachel Griffiths.
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Griffiths is presenting a new art ABC art series called Great Southern Landscapes
The first episode takes her to the Hawkesbury River where residents are doing their third flood clean-up in 12 months
The series will premiere on the ABC at 8pm on August 9
She was traveling across Australia filming earlier this year when a painting by Arthur Streeton drew her to the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales.
Griffiths was met by a community recovering from their third flood in 12 months.
“Standing with a guy who’s pressure washing his house for the third time and feeling deeply connected to a place he isn’t sure he has the ability to deal with or accept nature’s fury — that was one of our deeply moving times,” Griffiths said .
She never imagined that local Rohan Smith who she interviewed would be doing a fourth clean-up just weeks later.
Griffiths has come away with a heightened appreciation of the harsh realities of Australian landscapes.
Life after lockdowns
Presenting the new ABC art series Great Southern Landscapes, she has taken a deep dive into some of Australia’s most iconic landscape paintings and hopes the prime-time series will inspire wanderlust for our own backyard.
Darug woman Erin Wilkins takes Griffiths down the Hawkesbury River to share about its history.(ABC: Great Southern Landscapes)
The Melbourne-based actor and producer came out of pandemic lockdowns hungry to explore the natural beauty and she’s done so through the eyes of some of our greatest artists.
An art-lover herself, Griffiths wasn’t disappointed.
“It was wonderful to fly across the great breadth of the country after the borders opened and I think what I really loved hearing was how people outside of Melbourne experienced the past few years,” Griffiths said.
The six episodes capture the devastation of recent flooding, the cultural significance of the landscapes and the painful history that has played out.
Lake Eyre in South Australia, Western Australia’s Exmouth and Cottesloe Beach, and Warrnambool in Victoria are some of the backdrops to feature in the 30-minute episodes filmed from February to July.
Griffiths cherishes the time she spent exploring the landscapes that surrounded Albert Namatjira, a pioneer of contemporary Indigenous Australian art.
Melbourne-based Griffiths was keen to explore Australia when the borders opened. (ABC: Great Southern Landscapes)
In one episode, she will take viewers to Namatjira’s house at Hermannsburg in the Northern Territory to hear about how pivotal he was in sharing knowledge of country and inspiring other artists to do the same.
It’s in her blood
Griffiths herself grew up inspired by artists from all walks of life.
She had a passion for art through school and trailed her mother Anna Griffiths around galleries.
“For me it’s part of my day-to-day language because I’m the daughter of an artist and I’m married to an artist and I’m a performing artist,” Griffiths said.
Her love of landscapes is reflected in the films that have captivated the actor.
Griffiths described mystery film Picnic at Hanging Rock as formative for her, fascinated by the idea that the landscape could be a place that could eat girls.
“I think what put Australian filmmaking on the map was our cinematographers and our directors before our writers,” she said.
“Whether it’s Baz Luhrmann’s Sydney in Strictly Ballroom to Tracks, I think our filmmakers have always sought to do justice to the incredible views that we have.”
Griffiths has loved art her whole life. (ABC: Great Southern Landscapes)
She hopes Great Southern Landscapes will also do justice to our country’s precious natural environment, just as the featured artists have done.
Griffiths said it would be great to give ABC viewers some inspiration to see what their own backyard has to offer.
“I hope to inspire people when they do go to that viewing spot — rather than get out of the car, run over, take a selfie and fall off a cliff — you actually Google who was here, whose land you are on and what stories were here,” she said.
“And you understand the place in a slightly deeper way than just the five-minute Instagram.
“The purpose of a view should not just be for an Instagram post but to really have an understanding of our European history and the 60,000 years before we arrived of what these places were.”
What’s next?
Aside from the series set to premiere at 8pm on August 9, Griffiths has her fingers in several feet which are yet to be revealed.
She has a string of awards behind her including for her roles in Muriel’s Wedding and Six Feet Under.
The Melbourne actor said she was “on hold” for a role in a big US show and was waiting to find out more.
She is also the co-creator and executive producer in a few shows which she is pitching internationally to various streamers.
The Boston Celtics have been down this road before with Jaylen Brown, most tellingly after the 2018 playoffs — when Brown could have been the centerpiece in a trade with the San Antonio Spurs for Kawhi Leonard.
The Celtics were coming off a run to Game 7 of the conference finals. Four of their top six in postseason minutes were 23 or younger: Brown, Jayson Tatum, Marcus Smart, and Terry Rozier. Two prime-aged stars — Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward — were set to return from injury the next season.
The Celtics decided they were good enough that they didn’t need to compromise their future to boost their present with Leonard.
But the exuberance about Boston’s young core coming within one win of the Finals blurred analysis of its broader postseason run. A lot of us zoomed past Boston coming within one lose of bowing out in the first round to an untested Milwaukee Bucks team. In between, the Celtics upended the young Philadelphia 76ers in a five-game win more ragged than convincing.
We know what happened next: The 2019 Celtics imploded, Irving and Hayward left, and the Lakers beat out Boston for Anthony Davis. Suddenly, the notion that Boston had been set up to contend for a decade seemed quaint. to decade? Ha. Next season is promised to no one.
Three years later, the Celtics have reached out about Kevin Durant, according to initial reports from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Brown would be the obvious centerpiece in any such trade.
These Celtics came within two games of the championship — three wins and one round further than in 2018. They appeared to solve whatever chemistry problems they had early last season. They loaded up on depth, playmaking, and shooting with Malcolm Brogdon and Danilo Gallinari. They might be the championship favorite now. Why should a team so good trade a 25-year-old All-Star for a 33-year-old megastar who has played 90 games in three seasons and seems to grow unhappy, fast, wherever he goes?
