It was sheer, cold-blooded murder—everything you would expect of a team of champions.
It is only a penalty shoot-out loss to Belgium at the Tokyo Olympics in the gold medal match last year that stops the Kookaburras being in the same conversation as the Aussie women’s cricket team as our greatest national teams going around right now.
They have everything you can want.
Ruthless, silky ability to find goals in the final third. Check.
Brutal intensity off the ball. Check. Even ahead 7-0 in the fourth quarter, the Aussie defense was screaming and scrambling like their lives depended on it. “They have really had each other’s back,” former Hockeyroos star Georgie Parker said on Channel 7.
A humble, classy Aussie spirit that conceals a killer-instinct. Check. Veteran Eddie Ockenden was selected to carry the Aussie flag at the Opening Ceremony for a reason.
Ockenden, at the age of 35, didn’t rule out the possibility of playing through to the 2026 Commonwealth Games — admitting the lure of competing in Victoria had real appeal.
For all these reasons and more, poor India didn’t stand a chance in Monday night’s Commonwealth Games final at the University of Birmingham.
It ended 7-0 and the score was a fair reflection of the Kookaburras’ dominance.
It was a fourth Commonwealth Games gold medal for Ockenden — and the Kookaburras kept their perfect record of winning every gold medal since hockey was introduced at the Commonwealth Games in 1998. They are the only team to win every gold they have competed in since that time .
The first half was a surgical carve-up that quickly turned into a bloodbath.
India simply had no clue how to stop the onslaught and it was 5-0 at the half time break.
Australia was denied an early goal when Daniel Beale stumbled on the ball as he was running in to tap it past the goal keeper.
It didn’t matter as gun finisher Blake Govers got Australia’s opening goal when he converted on Australia’s third penalty corner. It was 2-0 before quarter time as Nathan Ephraums finished off a sweet mid-field run to leave Australia in a dominant position.
When Jacob Anderson tapped in the third goal early in the second quarter, Channel 7’s Alister Nicholson said the Kookaburras were looking “lethal”.
When the fourth goal came he said: “This is just looking like a clinical side, used to playing in big matches, asserting itself.”
He said it was a “state of despair” for India in the second half.
The Kookaburras made the final on the back of an epic comeback win over England in the semi-final where controversy surrounded Australia’s winning goal.
On Monday morning (AEST) the Hockeyroos fell just short in the final where hosts England won gold in hockey for the first time ever.
President Donald Trump once told a top adviser that he wanted “totally loyal” generals like the ones who had served Adolf Hitler — unaware that some of Hitler’s generals had tried to assassinate the Nazi leader several times, according to a new book about the Trump presidency .
Trump complained to John Kelly, then his chief of staff and a retired Marine Corps general, “why can’t you be like the German generals?” according to “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021” by journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser.
When Kelly asked which generals he meant, Trump replied: “The German generals in World War II.”
“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said, according to the book.
Trump didn’t believe him, the book says. “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” Trump insisted.
An excerpt of the book, published Monday in the New Yorker, paints a picture of a president at conflict with his own military leaders, who were torn between resigning in protest and staying on as members of the Trump administration to prevent greater catastrophe.
According to those interviewed for the book, Trump’s military leaders and advisers were regularly trying to pull back on Trump’s desire to inflate his image and power, and to reconcile that desire with the values of the United States.
In one conversation from the book, Trump reportedly told Kelly he didn’t want any injured veterans to be part of an Independence Day parade he was planning.
“Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade,” Trump said. “This doesn’t look good for me.” He explained with distaste that at the Bastille Day parade there had been several formations of injured veterans, including wheelchair-bound soldiers who had lost limbs in battle.
Kelly could not believe what he was hearing. “Those are the heroes,” he told Trump. “In our society, there’s only one group of people who are more heroic than they are—and they are buried over in Arlington.” Kelly did not mention that his own son Robert, a lieutenant killed in action in Afghanistan, was among the dead interred there.
“I don’t want them,” Trump repeated. “It doesn’t look good for me.”
A spokesman for Trump had no immediate comment about the revelations in the book.
In another portion of the book, the authors describe how Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, drafted a resignation letter in the days after military police fired gas canisters and used grenades containing rubber pellets, clearing racial justice protesters from Lafayette Square ahead of Trump’s photo op in front of nearby St. John’s Church.
That event and other recent ones had prompted Milley to do “deep soul-searching,” Milley wrote in the letter, adding that he believed Trump was “doing great and irreparable harm” to the country. He wrote that he thought the president had made “a concerted effort over time to politicize the United States military” and that he no longer believed he could change that.
“You are using the military to create fear in the minds of the people — and we are trying to protect the American people,” Milley wrote. “I cannot stand idly by and participate in that attack, verbally or otherwise, on the American people.”
Trump, he added later, did not seem to believe or value the idea, embodied in the Constitution, that all men and women are created equal. Lastly, Milley said he “deeply” believed that Trump was ruining the international order and causing significant damage to the United States overseas and did not understand that millions of Americans had died in wars fighting fascism, Nazism and extremism.
“It’s now obvious to me that you don’t understand that world order. You don’t understand what [World War II] was all about,” Milley wrote. “In fact, you subscribe to many of the principles that we fought against. And I cannot be a party to that.”
Though the resignation letter was ultimately never sent, it showed the degree to which Milley believed Trump had already inflicted damage on the country. And though he was convinced by several not to quit, Milley would later fear two “nightmare scenarios” related to Trump’s attempts to hang onto power at home, according to the book.
“Milley feared that Trump’s ‘Hitler-like’ embrace of his own lies about the election would lead him to seek a ‘Reichstag moment,’ ” Baker and Glasser wrote, referring to a 1933 fire in the German parliament that Hitler seized to take control of the country. “Milley now envisioned a declaration of martial law or a Presidential invocation of the Insurrection Act, with Trumpian Brown Shirts fomenting violence.”
Milley later feared that the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — in which a pro-Trump mob overran the US Capitol to try to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory — was in fact that “Reichstag moment.”
“They shook the very Republic to the core,” Milley later said about the Capitol attack, according to the book. “Can you imagine what a group of people who are much more capable could have done?”
All the best advice about bullet journaling says you don’t have to be neat or artistic or organized to create an effective journal. In fact, the original Bullet Journal Method created by Ryder Carroll, who has a book and a website and a $249 course teaching the technique, ignores artistry altogether. But let’s be real. The bullet journal pages you’ve seen on Instagram and TikTok are intimidating because only an artist could have made them. And with that intimidation comes the fear of ruining the notebook you paid $25 for.
That’s why many people get bullet journal paralysis. They hesitate to write anything at all for fear it’ll be ugly and sloppy, and thus their notebook collects dust. (Note that I use “bullet journaling” in a generic sense. When I refer to Carroll’s method specifically, I capitalize it.)
Or maybe bullet journaling failed you for other reasons, like you found the supposed mindfulness aspects to be time wasters. As Anna Russell put it in The New YorkerThe New Yorker, “You get the sense, in some of the more beautiful posts, that it took more time to make the to-do list than it would have to complete the to-dos.”
There is a better way. You can get nearly the same benefits of bullet journaling using a method that’s:
Do not intimidate
Allows for corrections and changes along the way
Doesn’t require lengthy transfers of useful notes to a new section or notebook each month
Won’t cost you any additional money if you already own a computer or mobile device
The trick? Go digital. And I’m not even talking about buying a specialized bullet journal app, because you can get better results with the right to-do list or note-taking app.
If you’re committed to writing your bullet journal by hand, you can still do that and digitize your notes—I’ll explain how in a moment. But by going digital you give up almost nothing, except the tactile feel of paper, and you gain so much more.
A Brief Overview: What Is a Bullet Journal?
Here’s a very brief overview of bullet journaling: The original namesake Bullet Journal Method uses a paper notebook, where you create an index in the front and use the rest of the pages to write down and organize everything you have to do and need to remember for each month. There’s a formula for creating each page, which Ryder Carroll explains clearly in his original 2013 video about bullet journaling.
The Bullet Journal Method involves using page spreads in a paper notebook to make an entry for every day of the month and write down tasks (checkbox), events (open circle), and ideas (bullet point).
Since that first conception, people have riffed on the idea so that now it can include pretty little sketches, calligraphy, and other designs that look so beautiful they ultimately discourage nonartistic people from trying.
At its core concept, the bullet journal is a wonderful tool for getting organized by doing what nearly all organizational techniques do. They get ideas out of your head and onto paper so that you are no longer burdened with having to remember them. Journaling in general also helps people process thoughts and emotions, articulate goals, and review what’s happened in the past.
But there are reasons to do it electronically instead of on paper.
Why Apps Are a Better Place to Bullet Journal Than Paper
Digital journals are superior to paper ones in so many ways. I’m not saying paper is bad or wrong to use, but there are clear advantages to working electronically.
You can edit and reprioritize cleanly and simply without crossing out your work or rubbing an eraser across the page.
You get reminders. A paper notebook can’t pop up a notification on your phone one day before you need to make a cake for your kid’s birthday reminding you to buy ingredients, but an app can.
Electronic files are easy to rifle through and they’re searchable. Good luck finding an idea you wrote down in a notebook two years ago. In a digital journal, you can jump back 10 years in a second or two, search for keywords, and browse through old notes without ever leaving your computer or mobile device.
You can upload photos, images, PDFs, and other files to your notes, which you can’t do with a bullet journal unless you start gluing and stapling inside your pages.
With digital journals, you typically get access to templates, or you can make your own, plus you get stickers (or icons) that never run out the way physical ones do. Everything you need is always there unlike your favorite pen that you’ve misplaced or the journal that’s down to its last page.
Which App Should You Use for a Digital Bullet Journal?
What a lot of people don’t realize is bullet journals are not at all different from to-do list apps. Proponents of bullet journaling think they’re different, but that’s because they aren’t up to speed on what to-do lists apps are these days. I’ve been testing and writing about to-do list apps for nearly ten years. I know them inside and out. If you write your to-do list strategically and use one of the best to-do list apps, you’ll quickly realize that it’s more than just a digital checklist of things you need to do.
For example, the Toodledo app has sections for writing down tasks, as well as one for tracking habits, writing freeform notes, and creating outlines. Then there are note-taking apps that look exactly like the blank pages of any journal but which contain features for making to-do lists, adding stars and other icons, and even in some cases doodling and sketching. In short, a to-do list app covers everything a bullet journal does, and offers more.
Here’s a closer look at some of the apps I recommend using instead of a paper bullet journal.
Because of its organized setup, Microsoft OneNote is a superb app for commandeering for bullet journaling.
Microsoft OneNote
Every single thing you would do with a paper bullet journal you can also do in Microsoft OneNote (free). This app lets you create blank notes that are more like canvases than word document files. You get a wealth of icons, including checkboxes and stars, that you can add anywhere on the page. As you can see from the image, OneNote has sections where you can organize different kinds of lists and ideas. There’s no need to create an index because you essentially have one visible to you at all times from those sections at the left.
Aside from being free, the other huge advantage of Microsoft OneNote is that it works everywhere. No matter what kind of device you have, you can create and access notes.
Free templates for the Notability app make it a tidy place to keep a journal and to-do list.
iPad Apps: Notability, Notes X Plus, or Penultimate
If you want to preserve the feeling of writing by hand and sketching with a pencil and you have an iPad, try a note-taking app that reads handwriting and perhaps even smooth lines as you draw.
Notability is one option. There’s a free version with limitations, or you can pay a reasonable $11.99 per year (or $2.99 per month) for extra features such as handwriting recognition and smoothing, math conversion technology, and iCloud syncing. You can get fantastic free templates for it to guide your journaling. While Notability is best on an iPad, it’s also available on Macs and iPhones.
Next are Notes Plus X ($9.99) and Notes Plus ($9.99), also for iPad and iPhone. The key difference between the two is Notes Plus supports older versions of iPadOS and iOS, should you need it. This app comes with some nice features that reduce distractions so you can focus on your work.
Last in this group is Penultimate, another note-taking app for the iPad that supports sketching and stylus input. It’s useful for people who also use Evernote, as it’s owned by the same company and you can easily store your notes there. It’s free to download, though you don’t get the full experience of being able to search your notes and save them to all your devices unless you have a paid Evernote account, which is expensive.
If you explore digital journaling, you’ll come across plenty of other app suggestions, especially for the iPad. I’ve tried many of those other apps, and I don’t feel confident recommending them because they’re finicky to use, or light on features, or something else about them doesn’t result in a high quality experience. I do have a few more recommendations for note-taking apps and devices that go beyond the iPad.
Toodledo’s Notes section can be repurposed as a bullet journal, alongside its habit-tracking and to-do list features.
Toodledo
I already mentioned Toodledo, but let’s get into it. It’s primarily a to-do list app, and to be frank, it could be improved in a few areas. But when I think about which to-do list app would be best for people who want to make a bullet journal, Toodledo is it. It has a ton of features for creating to-do lists and adding detail to them. You can write down additional thoughts, like your goals, in Toodledo’s notes or outline sections. If you are someone who enjoys spending a lot of time customizing your tools, then you’re going to love this app. It’s available on the web, and as a downloadable app for Android and iPhone. There are no desktop apps for Windows or macOS, but the web app works fine as long as you’re online.
Toodledo’s to-do list includes a calendar view.
What do you do? Yo Use?
I don’t use the Bullet Journaling Method, but I have consistently kept a daily journal for more than seven years and I’m fastidious about using a to-do list, grocery shopping list, list of ideas, etc. What do I use for them? For a long time I was an Evernote user, but after I got frustrated with it, I switched to Joplin, and the majority of my notes go there. For my daily tasks and lists, I use Todoist and I couldn’t imagine using anything else.
Those two apps work for me in part because I’m not a doodler. My notes are all typed. Plus I like compartmentalizing my daily journal and ideas from my tasks and other lists. If Joplin doesn’t speak to you, you might consider a few other alternatives to Evernote with a different look and feel.
keep it up
Have I not convinced you that digital is the way to go? No problem! Pen and paper work better for some people, and that’s fine. Even I keep a good pen on hand (alongside other high-quality necessities for remote work) to jot down ideas and take notes. Digital notes aren’t the end-all-be-all.
If bullet journals haven’t worked for you in the past, however, and you’re still hungry for everything they promise, then make a digital journal instead. Pick a time every day when you’ll write in it, set a reminder for that time, and keep it up. It takes a few months to make the habit stick.
A 37-year-old nurse suspected of killing six people and injuring eight others when her speeding Mercedes-Benz plowed into several vehicles in a Windsor Hills intersection last week is scheduled to be in court Monday.
Formal charges could also be filed Monday against the driver, identified as Nicole Linton, who was working in Los Angeles as a traveling nurse out of Texas, authorities said.
Linton was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence.
Jail records show she is being held on $9 million bail.
Relatives of the Windsor Hills crash victims visit the makeshift memorial. Aug 6, 2022 (KTLA)
Authorities believe Linton’s car was going at least 80 mph when it traveled through a red light and hit the vehicles passing through a busy intersection at the corner of La Brea and Slauson avenues.
Twenty three-year-old Asherey Ryan, who was six months pregnant, her 11-month-old son Alonzo, and her fiancé, Reynold Lester, were on their way to a prenatal checkup when the speeding Mercedes-Benz hit them.
Everyone in Ryan’s vehicle died, including her unborn son.
Loved ones gathered over the weekend at the site of the horrific crash in Windsor Hills.
Sha’seana Kerr, Ryan’s younger sister, spoke about the crash and the person responsible.
“I just want to tell her that we forgive her,” Kerr said. “She will have to live with this for the rest of her life. That’s why she was spared. We understand it already.”
GoFundMe pages have been set up to help the families of Lester and Ryan, Alonzo and her unborn son pay for funeral expenses.
This month we take a dive into magnesium alloys in wheels, frames and pedals – looking back to some classic products as well as checking out those at the cutting edge from VAAST, DMR and the e-bike newcomer Honbike.
Alongside that, we take a look at the new crit-specific race tires from Challenge and Vittoria’s recently released Corsa N.EXT performance tires – designed to be a Continental GP5000 killer.
Finally, after attending the launch of Enve’s Melee road bike, we take a look at what exactly the frame has to offer.
Competition
But just before all of that, we just wanted to let you know that we’ve partnered with Garmin to give away a brand new set of Rally XC100 power meter pedals.
These are compatible with two-bolt Shimano SPD cleats, making them well suited to gravel and more adventurous road riding. As a ‘100’ series model, these only measure the power output of your left leg – but it is possible to upgrade the right pedal down the line, should you wish for more granular power data.
It’s also possible to swap out the pedal bodies and convert them to power pedals for Look or Shimano road cleats – there’s a lot of versatility packed into Garmin’s new Rally platform.
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VAAST R/1 magnesium road bike
(Image credit: VAAST)
VAAST has recently released its R/1 road bike which, as with all of VAAST’s bikes, is built with a magnesium alloy frame. It’s not a material you see so often these days, although there have been many notable products released through the years that do make use of the alloy.
The Kirk Precision is perhaps one of the most striking, but Pinarello also produced a Dogma in magnesium for a number of years. American Classic – now relaunched as a tire brand – produced a set of super light magnesium wheels, whilst magnesium flat pedals have pretty much a constant through the decades.
VAAST claims that the R/1 frame weighs just 1,250 grams – which is about 250g lighter than what would be considered very light for aluminium. VAAST believes that its frames can be made more feathery still, admitting that they are still near the start of their manufacturing experience with the material and that further refinements are yet to come.
Considering that aluminum bikes have had the best part of 40 years to hone their production, for VAAST to be dropping in at this level is pretty impressive. It’s also claimed that magnesium can offer a smoother ride feel, closer to that of titanium than aluminum – but with modern wide tires and low pressures, nuances such as this can be hard to detect.
Either way, we’ve got one in on test, so stay tuned for our review!
Challenge Criterium RS and Vittoria Corsa N.EXT tires
(Image credit: Future)
The Criterium RS from Challenge are quite a ‘traditional’ tire in a few respects. They utilize a 350 Thread Per Inch (TPI) cotton casing, which is a very high TPI count and should make the tires more supple and better able to cope with deflection. The tires are also offered in only 25 and 27mm widths – no larger ‘plus size’ options here.
But in other ways, the Criterium RS are quite up to date – they’re tubeless compatible and will work with hookless rims. It doesn’t come cheap though, with each tires setting you back €84.90 / $94.99.
On the other hand, we’ve got Vittoria’s new Corsa N.EXT tyres, which are designed as a cheaper and more accessible performance tyre. Rather than the cotton casing that the flagship Cora Speed and Corsa Control tires use, there a nylon casing is employed – similar to that of Continental and Schwalbe.
This allows Vittoria to reduce the price, selling them at £54.99/$74.99, which undercuts both Continental’s GP5000 S TR and Schwalbe’s Pro One TLE. We’ll publish a full review once we’ve spent more time on them, but so far they do feel like a strong competitor.
send melee
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Enve had already dipped its toes in the frame-making game with the ‘Custom Road’ last year. That was a high-end, bespoke carbon bike, made to measure in the USA and with an understandably high price to match: $7,000 for the frameset only.
Now, Enve has launched the Melee, a lower priced model ($5,500/£5,300) that comes in stock sizes, is made “overseas”. It’s still a very expensive frame, comparable to the Specialized Aethos and Colnago C68, but while those models come from brands with a proven heritage, the this is a bit more of an unknown.
Still, Enve certainly has plenty of experience in manufacturing carbon, with high-end wheels, handlebars, forks and seatposts all in its portfolio. If it can mass produce a frame to the same standards, that’s certainly something to look out for.
We’ve got one on order and will bring you our first impressions as soon as we’ve put some thousands into it.
During his time in the Oval Office, Donald Trump wanted the Pentagon’s generals to be like Nazi Germany’s generals in the second world war, according to a book excerpt in the New Yorker.
In an exchange with his former White House chief of staff John Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, Trump reportedly complained: “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?”
Kelly asked which generals, prompting Trump to reply: “The German generals in World War II.”
According to the excerpt published by the New Yorker from The Divider: Trump in the White House, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, an incredulous Kelly pointed out that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was almost assassinated by one of his own generals.
“No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” Trump replied, apparently unaware of Claus von Stauffenberg’s plot in July 1944 to kill Hitler with a bomb inside his Wolf’s Lair field headquarters.
Kelly reportedly told Trump that there were no American generals who observed total loyalty to a president. Instead, they swear, like all military personnel, to “support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
The stunning back-and-forth came during a dispute touched off by Trump’s admiration for military parades, gleaned in part by personally observing Bastille Day celebrations thrown in France by that country’s president, Emmanuel Macron.
Trump stubbornly wanted a similar military parade to mark the Fourth of July independence day holiday. But his cabinet staff was less enthusiastic, and it became a point of contention.
According to the excerpt, a French general overseeing the 2017 Bastille Day parade in Paris turned to one of his American counterparts in Trump’s delegation and said: “You are going to be doing this next year.” The idea was seeded.
Trump, on his return to Washington, hatched a plan for the “biggest, grandest military parade ever for the Fourth of July.” But the plans went down badly with Trump’s cabinet staff.
“I’d rather swallow acid,” the defense secretary and former Marine Corps general, James Mattis, is reported to have said, offering that a similarly grandiose military parade was unfeasible in part because of the cost and the fear that tanks would tear up the streets of Washington.
But Trump was already formulating his vision, telling Kelly: “Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade. This doesn’t look good for me.”
According to the publication, the subject came up repeatedly. With each pushback, Trump’s admiration for the military advisers which he used to fawningly refer to as “my generals” cooled.
In one exchange involving Kelly and Paul Selva, then vice-chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Trump appeared surprised that the former military men were not supportive.
Selva, who had grown up in António de Oliveira Salazar’s Portuguese dictatorship, informed Trump that “parades were about showing the people who had the guns. And in this country, we don’t do that.” I added: “It’s not who we are.”
“So, you don’t like the idea?” Trump responded.
“No,” Jungle said. “It’s what dictators do.”
In a statement to the magazine, Trump said: “These were very untalented people and once I realized it, I did not rely on them, I relied on the real generals and admirals within the system.”
Well, it looks like Micron has officially commenced the mass production of its next-gen GDDR6X memory chips offering speeds of up to 24 Gbps.
Micron’s 24 Gbps GDDR6X Memory Enter Mass Production, Coming To NVIDIA’s Next-Gen GPUs Later This Year
Micron announced earlier this year that they were readying their brand new 24 Gbps GDDR6X memory modules for future graphics cards. The announcement came at a time when NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3090 Ti had just entered the market for which Micron had produced 16 Gb DRAM modules rated at up to 21 Gbps speeds.
Now, Micron is going to offer even faster pin speeds of 24 Gbps in a 16 Gb density which means that once again, we will be looking at 2 GB VRAM capacities and up to 24 GB capacities across a 384-bit bus interface. Just like the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti which featured all of its memory modules on the front of the PCB, the next-gen GeForce RTX 4090 would feature its 12 GDDR6X modules on the front, allowing for more cooling compared to solutions that feature memory modules on the back of the PCB such as the RTX 3090 (Non-Ti).
Although the full 24 Gbps speeds aren’t expected to be utilized by the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (rumored to offer up to 21 Gbps die speeds), the 24 Gbps GDDR6X memory modules can offer up to 1,152 TB/s of bandwidth which is an increase of 14% versus the 1,008 TB/s offered on current 21 Gbps GDDR6 memory modules.
Micron has commenced mass production of its 24 Gbps GDDR6X memory modules for NVIDIA Next-Gen GPUs. (Image Credit: Harukaze5719)
Following are the bandwidth numbers you can expect with a 24 Gbps DRAM solution:
512-bit solution – 1.5TB/s
384-bit solution – 1.1TB/s
320-bit solutions – 960GB/s
256-bit solution – 768GB/s
192-bit solution – 576GB/s
128-bit solutions – 384GB/s
92-bit solutions – 276GB/s
64-bit solutions – 192GB/s
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is going to be amongst the first next-gen graphics card to utilize the latest GDDR6X memory modules when it launches later this year. Given that these chips are likely going to be downclocked to hit the power targets, there will be a huge overclocking potential for enthusiasts to take advantage of.
AMD on the other hand is likely to depend on its partner, Samsung, for its next-gen RDNA 3 lineup. Samsung is also working on a 24 Gbps GDDR6 memory module which is expected to hit mass production soon.
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FIRST ON FOX: Lawyers for Gabby Petito’s parents announced Monday that they will file a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Moab Police Department, two officers who interacted with her just days before her death and two former leaders.
The family alleges that Moab officers Eric Pratt and Daniel Robbins failed to properly handle a 911 call in which a witness claimed he saw Brian Laundrie hitting Petito and trying to steal her phone and drive off without her in the middle of downtown Moab.
Fox News Digital was first to report the Aug. 12, 2021, domestic 911 call last year. Roughly two weeks after Moab police pulled over the couple in the entranceway to Arches National Park, Laundrie is believed to have bludgeoned Petito and strangled her to death at a Bridger-Teton National Forest campground in Wyoming, where they’d traveled as part of their cross-country van-life road trip.
“Had the officers involved had training to implement proper lethality assessment and to recognize the obvious indicators of abuse, it would have been clear to them that Gabby was a victim of intimate partner violence and needed immediate protection,” Brian Stewart, a lawyer for the family, said in a statement.
GABBY PETITO’S MOTHER SLAMS BRIAN LAUNDRIE’S NOTEBOOK CONFESSION
He also said a previously undisclosed photo of Petito taken during the incident shows “a close-up view of Gabby’s face where blood is smeared on her cheek and left eye, revealing the violent nature of Brian’s attack.” It also shows that she was “grabbed across her nose and mouth, potentially restricting her airway.”
In a news conference announcing the lawsuit Monday, Petito’s parents appeared remotely via Zoom.
Nichole Schmidt, her mother, used an image of a very young Petito as her avatar for the call.
Nichole Schmidt used an image of a very young Petito in her lap as her avatar during the virtual news briefing. (Hunter Richards for Fox News Digital)
The notice of claim, filed Friday but made public Monday, names Pratt and Robbins, former Moab Police Chief Bret Edge, and former Assistant Chief Braydon Palmer.
Edge went on leave shortly after the Petito case seized national headlines and then briefly returned to the department. He was succeeded on the job by the city’s new chief, Jared Garcia, in May.
Attorneys for Gabby Petito’s family say new photo evidence shows injuries she sustained before the Moab 911 call. (Parker + McConkie)
When reached for comment, he said only, “I am no longer with the Moab Police Department.”
The text of the complaint particularly focuses on Pratt’s actions during the stop. He had seniority over Robbins, a relatively new officer, and on the bodycam video he appeared reluctant to charge Petito with a crime. He had apparently determined that she was the aggressor, not Laundrie.
“Officer Pratt called Assistant Chief Palmer to seek assistance on how to handle the situation,” the filing reads. “Chief Palmer instructed Officer Pratt to carefully read the assault statute and decide whether the situation satisfied the statute. Officer Pratt Googled the statute. After reading only the first half of the statute, Officer Pratt decided – incorrectly – that Utah law only recognizes assault if the perpetrator intended to cause bodily injury.”
This police camera video provided by The Moab Police Department shows Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito talking to a police officer after police pulled over the van she was traveling in with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, near the entrance to Arches National Park on Aug. 12, 2021. (The Moab Police Department via AP)
An independent investigation into Moab’s response to the call “concluded that the officers made several mistakes and could not rule out that Gabby’s murder might have been prevented if the officers had handled the situation properly,” the filing reads.
The Moab Police Department drew scrutiny after a pair of bodycam videos, from Officers Pratt and Robbins, emerged showing its response to the Petito-Laundrie dispute, in which police made no arrests or citations despite a Utah statute requiring one to be issued in domestic violence incidents. After interviewing both Petito and Laundrie, as well as another witness, officers ruled out domestic violence and deemed the incident a “mental health break.”
Petito appeared visibly shaken throughout the entire encounter and told officers that Laundrie had grabbed her face while gesturing toward her neck. But the officers appeared to rule her the aggressor – and they seemed reluctant to arrest the diminutive, distressed woman at the time. But they also didn’t appear to even view Laundrie as a potential suspect despite the 911 caller alleging that he was an aggressor.
Price, Utah, Police Capt. Brandon Ratcliffe conducted the review, and he made a number of recommendations, including placing both Pratt and Robbins on probation and implementing increased training programs.
Moab has not provided Fox News Digital with any documents, comment or confirmation that any of these recommendations had been followed.
The department’s website, however, shows that Moab has added several officers in the last year and was hiring a new detective to be the department’s domestic violence specialist.
Moab Mayor Joette Langianese, who was elected months after the incident, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Screengrabs from police bodycam in Moab, Utah, on Aug. 12, 2021 show the couple following a domestic violence call. (Moab P.D.)
Petito’s parents, Joseph Petito and Nichole Schmidt, as well as her stepparents, Tara Petito and Jim Schmidt, have retained the Parker and McConkie law firm in Utah to handle the case. The firm in 2020 successfully represented the family of Lauren McCluskey, a 21-year-old University of Utah student who repeatedly asked for help from campus police before a 37-year-old man shot her outside her dorm in 2018. That case resulted in a $13.5 million settlement with the school.
“The purpose of this lawsuit is just one part of the family’s broader effort to raise awareness and education, to protect victims of domestic violence and to help make sure that our governmental institutions are held to account and that they are given the resources and training that they need to do their jobs,” Stewart said at a news briefing Monday.
Attorneys for the Petito and Schmidt families announced a notice of claim against Moab police at a news briefing in Salt Lake City Monday, Aug. 8. From left to right, Brad Park, Steven Jensen, Brian Stewart, Jim McConkie. (Hunter Richards for Fox News Digital)
“We believe that these officers were negligent, and their negligence contributed to Gabby’s death,” Stewart told reporters, later adding: “They did not understand the law and did not apply the law properly in Gabby’s situation.”
The new filing also reveals that Petito called her parents during the stop, and they wanted her to fly home and get away from Laundrie. They even offered to pay for a ride to Salt Lake City and a flight home, but hearing that police were involved, they “accepted Gabby’s assurances that she would continue her trip,” the document reads.
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Steve Bertolino, an attorney for Laundrie’s parents, said their son had not told them about the Moab incident, and they only learned of it when Fox News Digital exposed the Moab 911 call last September.
Gabby Petito in an undated photograph. (North Port Police)
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“I don’t know that they did everything wrong,” he said of the officers. “Everybody assumes it was a judgment call. People don’t deserve to get arrested because they got in a fight with someone that they love.”
Laundrie later confessed to the killing in a handwritten note found near his remains in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, where the FBI said he killed himself after sneaking out from under the nose of North Port police in Florida.
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Following their daughter’s death, Petito’s parents and stepparents created a nonprofit in her honor, the Gabby Petito Foundation, to raise awareness surrounding domestic violence and missing persons.
“I think Gabby’s story has touched a lot of people, and she’s saving lives,” Petito’s mother, Nichole Schmidt, said in a statement. “I get people messaging me all the time that they were inspired by her to get out of a relationship.”
The Petito and Schmidt families are also suing Laundrie’s parents in two separate Florida cases.
“All we can hope is that Gabby’s legacy will be a positive one,” Jim Schmidt said during the news briefing. “That people will see her de ella and they her and possibly compare maybe what they’re going through in their life de ella and make a positive change.”
The family is urging anyone who finds themselves trapped in an abusive relationship to speak up and seek help.
“Reach out if you can,” Nichole Schmidt said during the briefing, wiping tears from her eyes. “Reach out to someone.”
“There are people that care,” added Petito’s father, Joseph Petito. “People should know there are people out there who will do whatever they can to help.”
If you or someone you know is the victim of domestic abuse, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233.
Michael Ruiz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on Twitter: @mikerreports
Two Fridays ago, just before I left for a week-long vacation to Florida, I went through my pretrip digital routine. I set my Slack status to “Vacationing” with a palm tree emoji and paused notifications until further notice. I turned on Gmail’s auto-responder. I deleted a bunch of apps from my phone that would only serve to distract me from poolside bliss.
The last thing I did was pick up my iPhone and create a new Focus mode. Focus, in case you didn’t know, is a new-ish iOS feature designed to let you quickly switch your phone from one context to another. You can set it to shut up your work apps on the weekends, turn off notifications while you’re reading or sleeping, or only alert you to new emails from 9AM to 5PM and not a moment after. It’s really just an extension of Do Not Disturb, but it gives you more specific control and lets you have different setups for different situations.
My new Focus mode was called “Vacation Mode.” The goal was simple: I wanted to make sure people who needed me could reach me and that I’d be alerted if someone stole my credit card or my house burned down. Short of that, I wanted my phone to shut up and leave me alone. And, ideally, I also wanted it to actively prevent me from using it whenever possible.
Unfortunately, the reality of Focus falls well short of this idea. The only thing it really controls is your notifications: you can choose specific people whose calls and messages get through and the specific apps that are allowed to light up your phone. This is a good idea; it’s just too much work. You have to manually scroll through all of your contacts and then all of your apps, in alphabetical order, to pick which ones to exclude from the Focus blockade. (The app does offer some AI-powered suggestions in the app picker, but I found them basically useless. No, phone, Vacation Mode does not require calendar notifications.)
Here’s where I eventually landed: I allowed phone calls from “All Contacts” and added Messages, Reminders, WhatsApp, Home, and my banking apps to the list of allowed apps. I also turned off the toggle for “Time Sensitive” notifications because, at least in my experience, there’s nothing remotely time-sensitive about the “Time Sensitive” notifications I get. I turned off all notification badges, too. It wasn’t a perfect setup, but it meant I’d get all my texts and calls from people I know and be alerted to crucial stuff.
Turning on Vacation Mode drastically reduced my phone’s buzzing and lighting up over the course of a week. It was wonderful, and I didn’t miss anything I actually cared about. But all those notifications Focus mode blocks? They weren’t gone. They were just grouped on my lock screen, one tiny swipe away. And so, every time I picked up my phone, I found myself bombarded by them anyway. When I picked up my phone to check the weather, it was like being transported back to the office, with all the news alerts and Slack updates and unimportant email alerts reappearing — and then, oh fine, I’ll just look at TikTok for a second.
There’s this underlying tension that makes Focus hard to get right. Apple surely knows that showing you a bunch of stuff you don’t want is less of a problem than failing to show you the one truly important thing you needed to see. As a result, the feature is permanently stuck in a place of careful caution. But if Apple really wants to help users take back control of their phones, it needs to make Focus much more aggressive. Most of the tools to do so even already exist! Focus should integrate with Screen Time so that I could say “while I’m in Vacation Mode, only let me use Twitter five minutes a day” instead of having to change that setting separately. Rather than just hiding notifications, Focus should stop them entirely, as if I’d gone into the Notifications settings page and toggled them off. Focus mode currently lets you hide entire pages of your homescreen, but it should let you hide specific apps or widgets or even just rearrange things as soon as you turn on Focus. I don’t just want distractions slightly hidden on my phone while I’m on vacation — I want them gone. All these things should be part of a whole, not partitioned off from each other. And they shouldn’t feel like the Rube Goldberg machine they currently are.
In iOS 16, Focus mode gets some big improvements, including within apps.Image: Apple
The good news is that it looks like this is where Apple is headed. In iOS 16, for instance, you’ll be able to set up different lock screens for different Focus modes, and it’s working on improving both the setup process and the recommendations you get along the way. The new software also allows you to opt out of things rather than opting in, so instead of saying “only these six apps can reach me,” you can say “everything but these six apps can reach me.” That’ll make getting started with Focus modes a lot easier.
The real key to the future of Focus, though, is the new Focus filter API, which gives developers the ability to change their apps in response to settings you’ve enabled or tweaked in Focus modes. Apple’s own apps are a good guide for what that might look like: in iOS 16, I’ll be able to tweak Vacation Mode to hide my work events in the Calendar app or silence my work email in Mail but still get stuff sent to my personal account. Apple has suggested to developers that they might want to use Focus filters to let people hide specific accounts, turn off their in-app alerts, or even completely change the layout of the app depending on what a person is doing. (You can imagine, for instance, a navigation or music app that might want to look different as soon as you turn on the “Driving” Focus mode.) “Fundamentally, if your app can surface different content based on context,” Apple’s Teja Kondapalli told developers during a WWDC session in June, “you may be able to employ Focus filters to enhance user experience.”
Sounds great, right? Maybe in a year, I’ll be able to turn on Vacation Mode and have my Slack status automatically change, my auto-responder automatically engage, and all my notifications go away except the ones that really matter. There are two problems with this strategy, though. One, it assumes developers will willingly build less engaging versions of their app with fewer notifications and badges and incitements to pick up your phone. That’s not going to happen. And two, it still puts all the work in users’ hands: you’ll have to configure the Focus filters for each app individually.
Ultimately, though, I do recommend doing the work to set up a few Focus modes. I have a couple of them now, including one that automatically turns on whenever I open the Kindle app so I don’t get distracted by notifications when I’m reading. The feature is both not powerful enough and too complicated to use, but it’s a step in the right direction toward giving me actual control over my phone. I’m back at work, but I’m still in Vacation Mode, and my phone is still mostly quiet. And I might keep it that way.
Dame Emma Thompson is in Australia promoting her new film Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.
And on Friday, the British actress, 63, made the most of the sunny Sydney weather when she was spotted doing the popular Bondi to Coogee coastal walk with her co-star Daryl McCormack.
Emma cut a low-key casual figure in a white T-shirt which she teamed up with brown denim overalls.
Give me Down Under! Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack made the most of the sunny winter weather in Sydney, doing the popular Bondi to Coogee coastal walk on Friday
The Nanny McPhee star teamed her look with a pair of tinted white-framed sunglasses and a black backpack.
Emma showed off her ageless complexion for the outing, appearing to go makeup free as she enjoyed the spectacular views.
Meanwhile, her co-star Daryl, 29, was dressed in a button-up shirt which he teamed with navy colored shorts and black sneakers.
Stylish: Emma cut a low-key casual figure in a white T-shirt which she teamed up with brown denim overalls
Incognito: The Nanny McPhee star teamed her look with a pair of tinted white-framed sunglasses and a black backpack
After competing the costal hike, Emma took off her sneakers and made her way to Bronte Beach pool and watched Daryl take a dip.
The handsome hunk slipped into a pair of red boardshorts as he enjoyed some fun in the sun, with his tattooed body on full display.
Daryl recently revealed that he and Emma opted not to use an intimate coach for the film.
The new movie follows Nancy (Emma), a widowed school teacher who hires a male escort (Daryl) for a date, hoping to experience an orgasm for the first time – with the two characters sharing very intimate moments throughout.
Natural beauty: Emma showed off her ageless complexion for the outing, appearing to go makeup free as she enjoyed the spectacular views
Hike: After competing the costal hike, Emma took off her sneakers and made her way to Bronte Beach pool and watched Daryl take a dip
Downtime: The handsome hunk slipped into a pair of red boardshorts as he enjoyed some fun in the sun, with his tattooed body on full display
But Daryl told how he, Emma and director Sophie Hyde chose to navigate the scenes themselves as they felt it would be more ‘special’ to do their own ‘unique’ thing, with the actor adding that things were never ‘awkward’ between them.
While many TV shows including Normal People and Bridgerton brought in an intimacy coach for the sex scenes, the trio instead chose to choregraph their own sex scenes after first becoming comfortable with each other.
In an interview with Bustle, the Irish actor, 29, said of the intimacy scenes with Emma, 63: ‘We felt like it was something we could do together, so we did. ‘It feels that little bit more special because it’s our own unique thing.
Home time: After enjoying a refreshing swim, Daryl was seen drying off before returning to his hotel
‘It started with simple things. Just talking about our body: the things we like and don’t like. There’s something about detaching judgment from yourself and just seeing the potential in your body and what it can offer you. That gives you access to step into the intimate nature of the film.’
Thanks to their rehearsals and concerted efforts to know and be comfortable with each other (Emma and Daryl enjoyed walks around the park together), when it came to the more intimate scenes, the duo were able to fully embrace the moment.
Daryl explained: ‘It didn’t feel awkward, giddy, or anything like that. We enjoyed what we were doing and felt safe doing it. We were such a team.’
Stars: The new movie follows Nancy (Emma), a widowed school teacher who hires a male escort (Daryl) for a date, hoping to experience an orgasm for the first time – with the two characters sharing very intimate moments throughout
With the promotion of their film, Daryl and Emma have had open and candid conversations about sex and intimacy, with the Peaky Blinders star noting that he’s learned from his character Leo that intimacy is ‘deeply intertwined’ in ‘almost every facet’ of who we are as people.
He went on to add that people need to learn to ‘get away from’ the idea that intimacy is a ‘shameful’ thing and urged that it needed to be brought to the ‘surface’ and be spoken about.
Close: With the promotion of their film, Daryl and Emma have had open and candid conversations about sex and intimacy, with the Peaky Blinders star noting that he’s learned from his character Leo that intimacy is ‘deeply intertwined’ in ‘almost every facet’ of who we are as people
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