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Five Things to Know before FedEx St. Jude Championship

Five Things to Know before FedEx St. Jude Championship

Rory McIlroy is sixth in the FedExCup and coming off a break following his third-place finish in The Open. Most players would be thrilled to have played so well in the majors. In addition to contending at St. Andrews, where he held the 54-hole lead but couldn’t buy a putt in the final round and was passed by Smith, McIlroy was second at the Masters, eighth at the PGA Championship and T5 at the USOpen. McIlroy has high standards, however, and the fact is her ran his majorless streak to 31. Now, though, his opportunity to make history could serve as some consolation; no player, not even Tiger Woods, has won the FedExCup three times.

Patrick Cantlay goes into the Playoffs at FedExCup No. 5. No player has ever successfully defended his FedExCup title, but with a TOUR-leading 10 top-10 finishes this season, including a victory with partner Xander Schauffele at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans , Cantlay is in the mix to do just that. If he gets hot like he did last summer, watch out. He’ll also be looking for his first individual victory of the season.

Tony Finau, who won the 3M Open and Rocket Mortgage Classic, will look to make it three wins in three starts this week. That would make him the hottest player since Scheffler won four times in six starts in the spring. Also, Finau has unfinished business at TPC Southwind, where he admittedly hasn’t played well – his best is a T27 in 2019.

Then there’s Collin Morikawa, who’s looking to win in the Playoffs to avoid the first winless season of his career. Former Wake Forest teammates Cameron Young and Will Zalatoris also will be looking to nab a win before season’s end. Each is seeking his maiden victory after knocking on the door multiple times this season, including close calls at the majors.

Scheffler (Masters), Smith (The Open), Justin Thomas (PGA Championship) and Matt Fitzpatrick (US Open) would love to cap their major-winning campaigns with the FedExCup.

3. AWARD SEASON

In case you were wondering, yes, Joohyung “Tom” Kim, who opened with a quadruple bogey and closed with a 9-under 61 to win the Wyndham Championship – by a gaudy five shots, no less – is eligible for the 2022 Arnold Palmer Award as PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year.

That makes five rookies in the top 40 of the FedExCup standings — Cameron Young (No. 9), Davis Riley (No. 23), Tom Kim (No. 34), Mito Pereira (No. 38) and Sahith Theegala (No. 39) – and a tight race for top rookie honors.

“Yeah, I still can’t really wrap my head around just what happened,” Kim said Tuesday in Memphis. “It’s been – it’s been a crazy month. Start of July I was planning on trying to get my card through Korn Ferry (Tour) Finals and now one month later I’m a PGA TOUR winner.”

With seven top-3s, including a runner-up to Cameron Smith at The Open and a T3 at the PGA Championship, Young is believed to be the frontrunner. That would be fitting: Will Zalatoris, who was one year ahead of Young at Wake Forest, won the honor last season. While nabbing the award out of Young’s hands would be a tough task, the strong fields of the FedExCup Playoffs make it possible, as a win or even high finishes in all three would surely make a statement to a player’s peers, who are the voters for the award.

The Playoffs will also bring clarity to the Player of the Year race. Scheffler is the favorite, of course, but Smith could surpass him with a strong sprint to the finish. Same for Thomas and Fitzpatrick, who’d have a strong case if they had both a major and the FedExCup on their CV.

4. CUP CALL

Players have this week and next to automatically make the US Presidents Cup Team that will take on the International Team at Charlotte’s Quail Hollow Club on Sept. 22-25.

It’s not an easy task; only six players will make it on points after next week’s BMW Championship, the second event of the FedExCup Playoffs. After that, US Captain Davis Love III will make his six picks the day after the TOUR Championship, Aug. 29.

Scottie Scheffler, Patrick Cantlay, Sam Burns, Xander Schauffele and Justin Thomas occupy the top five spots in the standings and would seem to be a lock.

Tony Finau won the 3M Open and Rocket Mortgage Classic to move into the sixth position and has said he wants to make the team on points, not as a captain’s pick.

The next six after that: Jordan Spieth, Collin Morikawa, Max Homa, Will Zalatoris, Billy Horschel, and Cameron Young. Who will get the call?

Homa won the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow and is having a nice year. Young, while playing with Love at the recent Rocket Mortgage Classic, tied the course record with a 63. Love has spoken admiringly of the sound the ball makes coming off Zalatoris’ clubs.

Meanwhile, Kevin Kisner (15th), Keegan Bradley (18th), and Maverick McNealy (19th) are among those outside the top 12 who have great match-play pedigrees and could make a late run.

The International Team’s eight automatic qualifiers also will be determined after the BMW, with four Captain’s Picks coming Aug. 29. The top eight in the current standings, which are based on the Official World Golf Ranking, are Cameron Smith, Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im , Joaquin Niemann, Joohyung Kim, Corey Conners, Mito Pereira and Adam Scott.

That leaves players like two-time AT&T Byron Nelson champ KH Lee; former Presidents Cup participants Adam Hadwin, Marc Leishman, Anirban Lahiri and Si Woo Kim; and former TOUR winners Sebastian Munoz, Mackenzie Hughes and Lucas Herbert jockeying for the four picks.

5. BUBBLE BOYS

In addition to the fight for the FedEx St. Jude Championship trophy we’ll see a battle to get into (or remain) in the top 70 of the FedExCup standings to qualify for next week’s BMW Championship.

Those on the bubble include …

No. 67 John Huh, the onetime PGA TOUR Rookie of the Year who finished T2 at the Wyndham Championship last week, his best finish in a decade.

No. 70 Trey Mullinax, who captured his first TOUR title at the Barbasol Championship earlier this summer and was striping it in a practice round with Rickie Fowler and Justin Thomas, his former Alabama teammate, on Tuesday.

No. 71 Brandon Wu, a rookie who finished T8 at the Wyndham Championship in addition to two top-3 finishes this season.

No. 75 Chad Ramey, who captured his first TOUR title this season at the Corales Puntacana Championship.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar survives close primary after campaign focused on policing

Rep. Ilhan Omar survives close primary after campaign focused on policing

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) narrowly defeated a primary challenger on Tuesday, topping former Minneapolis city councilman Don Samuels by a single-digit margin after a campaign focused on crime and Omar’s effectiveness in Congress.

“Tonight’s victory is a testament to how much our district believes in the collective values ​​we are fighting for, and how much they’re willing to do to help us overcome defeat,” Omar said in a statement after Samuels, 73, conceded defeat.

With all but a few precincts reporting, Omar led Samuels by fewer than 3,000 votes out of more than 110,000 cast in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.

It was the narrowest win yet by an incumbent member of the “Squad,” the name adopted by six left-wing Democrats who defeated more moderate opponents in 2018 and 2020. The margin was also a surprise to supporters of Omar, who had prevailed in the face of millions of dollars in spending against her two years ago.

Omar’s close call came after her critics in the party mobilized against her, arguing that Samuels, who had campaigned against a 2021 ballot measure that would have disbanded and replaced the Minneapolis Police Department, would better represent the heavily Democratic district. That ballot measure sprung out of the police reform movement that grew after the May 2020 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin — a movement that has been blamed by some Democrats for alienating suburban voters.

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“We need partners across levels of government who prioritize teamwork, collaboration, and a seriousness of approach to match the seriousness of the issues we face,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said in a statement last week, announcing his support for Samuels.

Omar’s campaign had initially dismissed the threat from Samuels, a longtime Democratic activist who left the council in 2018 and lost a race for more than nine years ago. He entered the race in March, after no other challenger emerged. Omar had won an expensive primary in 2020, when pro-Israel groups and donors poured in resources for her opponent — a result that kept some groups that had opposed her, like the pro-Israel group AIPAC, on the sidelines this year.

In an interview shortly after he announced his campaign, Samuels told The Washington Post that Omar had been wrong to support the 2021 ballot measure, and that she had made trouble for Democratic leadership without noting her own accomplishments.

“She’s making points, gaining notoriety, and we are left unrepresented and unaccounted for,” Samuels said at the time.

The 2021 defeat of the ballot measure was a major setback for Omar and the Democratic Party’s left wing in Minneapolis, just a year after Floyd’s murder inspired a political uprising, including riots that torched the Minneapolis Police Department’s 3rd Precinct.

Several members of the Minneapolis City Council who had voted to disband the police department lost reelection that year, while Frey won reelection over a policing “abolitionist” supported by Omar. The ballot measure to disband the police department failed by 12 points, in a city that had voted for Joe Biden in 2020 by a 75-point landslide.

“The Black Lives Matter movement didn’t really take off in Minneapolis,” Samuels told The Post. “It was a couple other groups that benefited from the drama around the George Floyd crisis.”

Omar declined to debate Samuels during the campaign and spent less on this primary than she did to win in 2020. Her campaign opted not to run TV ads, while a pro-Samuels PAC went on the air in the final week. Omar outspent Samuels overall, $2.1 million to Samuels’s roughly $800,000. But the Make A Difference MN05 PAC, founded just two weeks before the primary, spent more than $600,000 against Omar.

In an interview Tuesday at an affordable housing apartment complex in the Minneapolis suburb of Richfield before polls closed, Omar said she wasn’t surprised at the challenge from Samuels.

“I think that when you push power, power pushes back,” she said. “We’ve never been afraid to challenge the status quo. And when people feel threatened by the kind of progress that’s being made, they’ll do anything to take it back.”

At a voting location at the nearby House of Prayer Lutheran Church, 59-year old Dawn Welter, a coffee shop worker, said abortion rights were the main issue bringing her to the primary. She was one of the only people walking out of the polls around 10 am

“I’ve always been a liberal, but it just reinforces the importance of getting out in the primaries,” she said. “Ilhan is very smart. Ella she is for everybody. I feel like she speaks her mind about her, and she backs up what she says.

Turnout was tracking lower this year than it had in 2020, another factor that liberals saw as a problem for Omar. While she had avoided the kind of multimillion-dollar ad campaigns that brought down other Israel critics in Democratic primaries this year, Omar’s supporters called the win a triumph for grass-roots politics.

“Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has faced some of the ugliest attacks of any elected official and had hundreds of thousands of dollars spent against her,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said in a statement.

Local Democrats who opposed Omar said that they’d done so because they felt the incumbent had gotten away from the needs of the district.

“I endorsed Samuels because he listened to what my constituents wanted, which is a closer relationship with our member of Congress,” said Jake Spano, the mayor of St. Louis Park. “I hope Congresswoman Omar hears that request and is willing to work with me on it.”

Sheila Regan in Minneapolis contributed to this report.

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Save up to $50 on Sony LinkBuds with these wireless earbuds deals

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Grease is still the word for Nine

Grease is still the word for Nine

Networks revamped their schedules last night following the sad passing of music icon Olivia Newton-John.

While breakfast TV and news bulletins went all out in coverage yesterday there was also room for nostalgia with Nine’s replay of grease (1978) drawing 442,000 meter viewers and winning its timeslot, outranking Seven’s miniseries Olivia Newton-John: Hopelessly Devoted to You (221,000).

earlier The Block led its slot at 775,000 defeating 7:30 (457,000), MKR (450,000), The Masked Singer‘s 449,000 (rising to 504,000 for the reveal of The Thong), Great Southern Landscapes (337,000) and the end Who Do You Think You Are? (232,000).

meanwhile The Cheap Seats was 387,000 then catalyst (276,000) and Insight (184,000).

A Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony replay pulled 98,000 with Highlights at 59,000 and a Live broadcast at 35,000.

Nine network won Tuesday with 33.6% then Seven 26.0%, 10 17.6%, ABC 14.5% and SBS 8.3%.

Nine News was 880,000 / 863,000 for Nine with A Current Affair winning at 708,000. hotseat was 402,000 / 228,000).

Seven News was #1 at 938,000 / 934,000. Home&Away drew 536,000 then TheChase winning with 529,000 / 323,000.

The Project pulled 373,000 / 252,000 for 10. 10 News First was 313,000 / 213,000. NCIS was 142,000.

ABCNews drew 575,000. thedrum (180,000) and Art Works (115,000) followed.

On SBS it was SBS World News (142,000 / 128,000) and Dateline (93,000).

The Adventures of Paddington topped multichannels at 132,000.

Sunrise: 235,000
Today: 200,000
NewsBreakfast: 122,000 / 63,000

In Total TV numbers last Tuesday were:

hunted: 1.12m
Who Do You Think You Are? : 449,000
Beauty & the Geek: 671,000
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked: 626,000

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Carlton to appeal court call on Cripps, Walls says it would be tough to make finals without him

Blues to appeal Cripps' two-match suspension

“They are definitely on the right track so that is encouraging, but it would be disappointing if they don’t make the finals when you consider where they were at the halfway mark [of the season],” Walls said.

Carlton sat in the top four temporarily during the bye rounds but have won just four of their past 10 matches after winning eight of their first 10.

“It might just mean there is a stronger resolve over summer … I reckon there will be a real sting if they don’t make finals and maybe some harder decisions will be made on players than if they did make finals,” Walls said .

The Blues have been hard hit by injuries at key times and will look to Lachie Fogarty, who has been in good form in the VFL, or Liam Stocker, who was unavailable for selection last week due to concussion, as replacements against Melbourne.

Marc Pittonet, who played against Adelaide before missing the match against the Lions, is expected to return to the ruck, with Tom De Koning potentially used up forward.

Walls was adamant Jack Silvagni – a surprise medi-sub against Adelaide – should play given his form and versatility. Zac Williams, who has missed a large chunk of the season through injury, is a rough chance to play in round 23, but no chance to play against the Demons.

Midfielder Sam Walsh, who has won plenty of possessions for the Blues in recent games, said Carlton needed to rediscover their edge in the contest, regardless of their personnel.

“The cornerstone for us is playing tough and hard and helping each other out,” Walsh said.

He backed teammates Adam Cerra and Paddy Dow to show their wares as the team looks to rediscover the style that helped them pile on eight goals in the final quarter against the Lions.

Carlton scored just seven points off turnovers in the first half and 34 points in the second half. This was despite the Blues having six more disposals than the Lions in the first half but 35 fewer disposals in the second half.

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Although the pressure was down, the numbers were instructive as they were direct, creating deep entries that allowed their key forwards, Charlie Curnow and Harry McKay, to compete in the air and their defenders to set up behind the ball.

They kicked nine goals out of 11 from late in the third quarter to late in the final quarter to draw back within 15 points.

They have not defeated Melbourne since 2016, having lost their past six matches against the Demons, and could still lose both matches and make finals if St Kilda lost both their remaining two games and the Western Bulldogs won just one of their final two matches.

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Why it’s impossible to say the worst of the pandemic is over

Why it's impossible to say the worst of the pandemic is over

At some point, the virus will reach an evolutionary peak, Holmes said. “But is that now? Or next week? Or in a year? We don’t have the answer.”

Associate Professor Stuart Turville, the lead virologist at the Kirby Institute laboratory that is sequencing Omicron variants, echoed Holmes’ reticence to divine the trajectory of the pandemic.

“We didn’t predict, and could never have predicted Omicron,” Turville said.

But I have outlined two probable scenarios for the next year of the pandemic. The most probable: Omicron subvariants would remain dominant infections and the population’s hybrid immunity – the protection offered by a combination of previous COVID-19 infection and vaccination – would be effective against any small changes to the virus.

The second scenario is a “wildcard event”: the emergence of a new variant that would be more transmissible than Omicron.

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Any new variant is probably “brewing away and becoming battle-hardened” in an immunocompromised person experiencing a prolonged infection, offering little warning before spreading through the community, Turville said.

“But the good news is the longer the virus is in the community, the more immunity we gain,” he said. He was optimistic that this would be how the community starts to “corner” the pandemic.

Associate Professor Ian Mackay, a virologist at the University of Queensland, said all signs were pointing to the worst of the pandemic being behind us, “but we won’t know for certain until we can look back in several months’ time and say, ‘Oh, that was the peak.’ ”

“We are addicted to ‘hope-ium’ these days,” Mackay said. “We can’t put money on the hope that new variants will be milder or less severe.”

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Professor of infectious diseases at the ANU Medical School Peter Collignon suspects the pandemic has reached its peak in line with the trajectory of the 1918 Spanish flu, which was extremely virulent for the first two to three years before persisting at significantly lower levels for decades.

The proof will be in the coming European and North American winter, and whether they have waves of deaths and hospitalisations, Collignon said.

“I will be proven wrong very quickly if I am wrong. We’ll probably have a pretty good idea by December or January,” he said.

Professor of epidemiology at the Kirby Institute John Kaldor shared that optimism, but said, “We need to maintain our readiness to respond if that prediction is wrong.

“Our COVID planning must be continually adapted, optimized and flexible to respond to whatever comes,” Kaldor said.

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“Our early warning system – which relies on global communication networks – worked pretty well with COVID and again with monkeypox, but the world is a tense place now, and it may become more difficult to maintain the level of international co-operation under the circumstances. .

“We don’t know how long the vaccines we have now are going to protect us. We will almost certainly need new vaccines and that process needs to be considered carefully,” he said.

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Protesters disrupt Los Angeles City Council vote on banning homeless encampments near schools

Protesters disrupt Los Angeles City Council vote on banning homeless encampments near schools

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A Los Angeles City Council meeting on Tuesday, when members voted to expand on a bill that prevents homeless people from forming encampments near schools, was disrupted by a group of protesters who broke through a security barricade and threatened the lawmakers.

A recess was called just before the council voted 11-3 to extend an existing ban on homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools and day care centers in Los Angeles, as protesters who claimed the initiative would further isolate and negatively impact the homeless community disrupted the City Council meeting. Two people were arrested, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian, who represents the Second District, described the protest as an “attack” that included verbal threats against the lawmakers.

“In yet another attack on constitutional democracy, for the second time in a week, a small mob of extremists today again shut down a public meeting of the City Council,” Krekorian said. “In the process, they breached a security barrier, physically threatened the Council, and attacked police officers. One of them was arrested two feet from my desk.”

LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL APPROVES MEASURE TO BAN HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS NEAR SCHOOLS

Protesters gather as the Los Angeles City Council votes on a ban on homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools and day care centers

Protesters gather as the Los Angeles City Council votes on a ban on homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools and day care centers
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During the incident, one sergeant and two Security Services Division officers who are responsible for the safety and security of City buildings were injured.

The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the disruption and said one of the detained suspects was a woman who charged the city council members.

“Officers were involved in a minor use of force while attempting to make the arrests,” LAPD said.

LA CITY COUNCIL GREENLIGHTS BAN ON HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS 500 FEET FROM SCHOOLS, DAY CARE CENTERS

A woman breached barriers at the Los Angeles City Council meeting and charged at lawmakers while yelling obscenities.

A woman breached barriers at the Los Angeles City Council meeting and charged at lawmakers while yelling obscenities.
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Police officers eventually dispelled the protesters and order was regained in the chamber.

“The unlawful assembly was declared at 11:07 am, and the crowd was given 30 minutes to disperse. The crowd dispersed as ordered while the Media remained. At approximately 11:40 am, Council reconvened, voted and approved 41.18 LAMC.”

Tuesday’s vote expanded on a provision that cleared the chamber last week, also by an 11-3 vote, that initially barred homeless encampments to schools and day care centers specifically identified by the council. Protesters similarly interrupted last week’s city council meeting on Aug. 2.

“There can never be any excuse or rationalization for this kind of anarchic lawlessness,” Krekorian added. “The people of our nation cannot tolerate raging extremists entering public buildings and threatening public officials with the attempt to shut down the government, no matter what their viewpoints may be.”

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Homeless encampments block the street on an overpass of the Hollywood freeway in Los Angeles July 7, 2021.

Homeless encampments block the street on an overpass of the Hollywood freeway in Los Angeles July 7, 2021.
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“Every Angeleno should be outraged by what happened today in their City Hall. Anyone who seeks to be a leader in this city must actively denounce this kind of nonsense in clear and unambiguous terms,” ​​the council member continued.

Supporters of the blanket ban said it was designed to ensure the safety of children, many of whom walk near the homeless encampments on their way to school. Some encampments include people who use drugs or suffer from mental health conditions.

“This is something to protect kids in our city,” Council member Paul Koretz, who represents the Fifth District, said before the measure passed.

The bill’s opponents, however, said it “displaces” the homeless and criminalizes their condition.

“Enforcement of anti-camping ordinances, then, only displaces people and makes it harder for trained outreach staff to establish trust again. Residents of cleared encampments, unless connected to stable permanent housing through a trauma-informed case management process, often return to unsheltered homelessness,” the nonprofit People Assisting The Homeless, or PATH, said in a statement.

People at a homeless encampment in Toriumi Plaza at 1st St. and Judge John Aiso St. in Los Angeles Thursday, March 17, 2022.

People at a homeless encampment in Toriumi Plaza at 1st St. and Judge John Aiso St. in Los Angeles Thursday, March 17, 2022.
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Protesters inside the chamber could be heard shouting “Abolish 41.18,” the law that dictates where homeless encampments can be located.

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The city of Los Angeles includes about 750 public schools and nearly 1,000 day care facilities, which will all be impacted by the ban.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti must sign the ban before it takes effect.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 and 5 Pro with enhanced health tracking and longer batteries

Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 and 5 Pro with enhanced health tracking and longer batteries

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Samsung has been making smartwatches for more than nine years and it has found its sweet spot between in-house hardware and Google’s Wear OS platform.

Two watch options, the Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, were announced during Samsung’s annual Unpacked event. The Galaxy Watch 5 is built for the masses and has no rotating bezel, while the Watch 5 Pro is designed and built for outdoor enthusiasts with the largest battery ever in a Galaxy smartwatch. For those who are saddened by the absence of the physical rotating bezel, Samsung says it will continue to offer the Watch 4 Classic.

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Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro

As someone who’s always wearing at least one smartwatch and tracks all of my running, cycling, hiking, fishing, and other outdoor activities, I am very excited to test the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro. The new watch has a 45.4mm diameter, with a massive 590mAh battery. The latter surpasses any capacity that we’ve seen from a Samsung Galaxy Watch and is 60% larger than that of the Galaxy Watch 4.

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The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro does away with the rotating bezel.

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Watch 5 Pro also incorporates premium materials like sapphire crystal with a titanium case to keep it from wearing and tearing. A D-buckle sport band is included and is designed to offer rugged durability and a sleek fit.

For turn-by-turn hiking and biking directions, Samsung is will allow users to import GPX formatted routes into the Samsung Health app. As with previous generations, the Health app is quintessential to the functionality and data tracking of the watch. There’s also now a trackback feature to help get you navigate back to your starting point during hikes and walks. It’s a nifty feature that every sporty smartwatch should have.

The Watch 5 Pro is available in Black Titanium and Gray Titanium and starts at $449.99 for the Bluetooth model and $499.99 for the LTE model.

Samsung Galaxy Watch 5

The Galaxy Watch 5 sees a slight redesign from its direct predecessor, the Galaxy Watch 4. One change, in particular, is the new contact area, which has a wider surface area for more accurate reads and includes a temperature sensor to offer improved health and wellness metrics.

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The Galaxy Watch 5 in Bora Purple, Pink Gold, and Graphite.

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Samsung says the Watch 5 is made of Armor Aluminum material with a sapphire crystal glass display. Powering the watch is Samsung’s Exynos W920 processor, with 1.5GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage for music and other data. The smaller 40mm model has a 284mAh battery and the larger 44mm model has a 410mAh battery. Those numbers are fair for the simplified use cases of the non-Pro smartwatches. To charge, you can do wireless charging via the puck cable or via Wireless Powershare on a Samsung smartphone.

The smaller 40mm Galaxy Watch 5 is available in Graphite, Pink Gold, and Silver, while the larger 44mm model is available in Graphite, Sapphire, and Silver. Pricing for the Galaxy Watch 5 starts at $279.99 for the Bluetooth model and $329.99 for the LTE version.

Best of both worlds

As far as similarities go, both Galaxy Watch 5 models offer 5 ATM, IP68, and MIL-STD-810H durability, with sapphire crystal glass displays. That’s as durable as mainstream smartwatches come, and I can’t complain. The BioActive sensor sets the Galaxy Watch 5 Series apart from other smartwatches and continues to provide extensive health and wellness measurements like Optical Heart Rate, Electrical Heart Signal, and Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis. ECG is another commonality across the models and will allow users to better understand their heart health.

Bluetooth, WiFi, NFC, GPS/Glonass/Beidou/Galileo, and LTE connectivity also come provided. Wear OS powered by Samsung is the operating system, with OneUI Watch 4.5 layered atop. That means you get the best of Samsung’s former Tizen platform alongside Google’s host of smartwatch-tailored applications. Unsurprisingly, the new Galaxy Watches only work with Android smartphones — with the most optimal experience being ones made by Samsung.

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Married At First Sight’s Olivia Frazer slams ‘gossip’ about her shock split from Jackson Lonie

Married At First Sight bride Olivia Frazer, 28, (left) has slammed 'dirty, gross, disgusting gossip' online following her shock split from her TV 'husband' Jackson Lonnie, 30 (right)

Married At First Sight’s Olivia Frazer slams ‘dirty gossip and speculation’ about her shock split from Jackson Lonie after being ‘annihilated online’

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Married At First Sight bride Olivia Frazer has slammed ‘dirty, gross, disgusting gossip’ online following her shock split from her TV ‘husband’ Jackson Lonie.

The couple confirmed their breakup in a joint statement on Monday.

The reality television star, 28, who met Jackson, 30, at the altar on the show 10 months ago, expressed her disgust on her Instagram Stories on Tuesday night.

Married At First Sight bride Olivia Frazer, 28, (left) has slammed 'dirty, gross, disgusting gossip' online following her shock split from her TV 'husband' Jackson Lonnie, 30 (right)

Married At First Sight bride Olivia Frazer, 28, (left) has slammed ‘dirty, gross, disgusting gossip’ online following her shock split from her TV ‘husband’ Jackson Lonnie, 30 (right)

‘You guys I just want to quickly add because it’s gotten under my skin and I’m not going to lie it’s made me angry today. On a day when I should be sad not angry,’ she ranted.

‘But any gossip or speculation or BS you read online is just that, gossip and speculation.

‘Unless it comes from Jackson and I directly, do not believe anything, even if it’s a dirty, gross, disgusting gossip site saying, “We’ve got a source that knows Olivia and Jackson directly.” Don’t believe it.’

Olivia added that she and Jackson had been ‘transparent’ with their followers and ‘if there is anything else to say, we will say it’.

The reality television star, 28, who met Jackson, 30, at the altar on the show 10 months ago, expressed her disgust on her Instagram Stories Tuesday night

The reality television star, 28, who met Jackson, 30, at the altar on the show 10 months ago, expressed her disgust on her Instagram Stories Tuesday night

Just moments before, she uploaded another video in which she gushed about the support she had received from her followers.

‘Just want to thank everybody for the lovely messages,’ she said.

‘I’ve only been sent one mean message and so many gorgeous messages. I can’t thank you guys enough because I know that I’m being annihilated online right now, but what’s come to me directly has been 99.99% love,’ the OnlyFans model continued.

Olivia added she and Jackson had been 'transparent' with their followers and 'if there is anything else to say, we will say it'

Olivia added she and Jackson had been ‘transparent’ with their followers and ‘if there is anything else to say, we will say it’

‘So you have no idea why I was really expecting to be crucified. I want you to know I’m okay. I feel the love. I’m totally fine,’ she assured worried fans.

The reality TV star went on to reveal exactly how she’s recovering from the heartache – by dining on truffle pasta, Caprese salad and watching Gilmore Girls.

News of the breakup was confirmed on Monday in a joint statement from Olivia and Jackson on Instagram, which read: ‘After a wonderful 10 months together we have decided to go our separate ways.’

Just moments before, she had uploaded another video in which she gushed about the support she had received from her followers

Just moments before, she had uploaded another video in which she gushed about the support she had received from her followers

‘There has always been a lot of love in our relationship and there will continue to be as we transition into a friendship.

‘We have nothing but love and respect for one another, and no one is to blame for the end of this relationship. Simply a case of ”almost perfect”.

‘We hope you all can please show compassion as we navigate this privately.’

The split comes after Olivia returned to Australia from a five week-long trip to the UK without Jackson, who remained on the Central Coast to train for an upcoming boxing match.

Her overseas trip was prompted after Jackson was caught kissing a 20-year-old traffic controller on a night out in Melbourne on May 27.

The break-up occurred not long after Olivia went on a five week-long trip to UK following the emergence of footage which showed Jackson being caught kissing a 20-year-old traffic controller (right) on a night out in Melbourne on May 27

The break-up occurred not long after Olivia went on a five week-long trip to UK following the emergence of footage which showed Jackson being caught kissing a 20-year-old traffic controller (right) on a night out in Melbourne on May 27

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What the Trent Boult case means for Australian cricket

What the Trent Boult case means for Australian cricket

By contrast, Australian contract holders (whether Cricket Australia or state-based) are required to train and play on home soil between September (at the nominal end of the English season) and April, albeit with an exception for the Indian Premier League.

Nevertheless, the increasing number of rich Twenty20 events, plus the recent explosion in the value of the IPL broadcast rights – set to be reflected in the league’s salary cap from next year – means that not even Cricket Australia will be able to ring-fence its players for too much longer.

”We’ve tried to manage his workload, but he’s found it increasingly difficult,” New Zealand Cricket chief David White told Stuff.co.nz of Boult. “But I also think the combination of COVID and managed isolation over the last few years has had an impact as well. I know that Trent’s found that difficult.

“He’s played for New Zealand for 11 years and has been a terrific player, and we respect that, so we’ve had very positive conversations, and we’ve worked through it together. We’re incredibly respectful of him and what he’s done for the country, the way he’s played in all three formats has been quite outstanding.”

Australia’s head coach, Andrew McDonald, said the evolution of the cricket system had been continuous throughout his playing career, and expected conversations around international cricket to oscillate in tune with the staging of major events.

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“The game has accelerated in the last 10 years, and what does it look like in the next 10 years, I’m not sure,” McDonald told SEN.

“I think the heat will come onto different formats at different times. One-day cricket’s under the pump now, what does it look like in terms of a World Cup next year in India? I think it’s going to be big. Then it’ll become about T20 international cricket, is that relevant because it’s not a World Cup year.”

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