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Inspired England beat Australia to win Commonwealth Games hockey gold | Commonwealth Games 2022

After 24 years of trying, the England women’s hockey team finally won gold at the Commonwealth Games. They had played Australia in three finals before now, and lost every one of them. But on a sunny Sunday afternoon at the University of Birmingham, they finally beat them, 2-1, through goals from Holly Hunt and Tess Howard.

And if it wasn’t exactly easy, it wasn’t anything like as difficult as history suggested it would be, either. England were in control of the match throughout, and yes, by the end the fans up in the big grandstand were singing “hockey’s coming home”.

The team had actually had some good luck messages from Leah Williamson and the rest of the Lionesses come through in the morning. “They told us how some of our previous teams had inspired them in the past, and that they hoped that now they’d returned the favor by helping inspire us to do this,” the midfielder Flora Peel said. “And they definitely did.”

The victory went some way to making up for the defeats endured by the England women’s cricket and netball teams, who both lost bronze‑medal playoffs earlier in the day. “It feels like women’s sport is really taking off this summer,” Peel said, “and now it’s about capitalizing on all those opportunities.

“You see what the Lionesses’ victory is going to do for them, and you hope this will do something similar for us, and the netball and cricket players too even though they didn’t make their finals this time. The more women’s sport as a whole can build on this momentum the better for all of us.”

England's players celebrate their gold at the final whistle.
England’s players celebrate their gold at the final whistle. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Peel will hate this being mentioned here, but she happens to be the great granddaughter, five times removed, of Sir Robert Peel. There is a statue of him just down the road from the pitch.

They are not going to put one of her up next to it just yet, even if she is an alumni of the university. But she played brilliantly well, and had a hand in both goals. Both came in the second quarter. Hunt scored the first, off Peel’s centre. Howard got the second after making an interception, which she passed back to Shona McCallin.

She whipped the ball on to Peel, whose shot was artfully deflected into the net by Howard. It meant Australia, who have won this title five times, had conceded more goals in those four minutes of play than they had in the rest of the tournament.

“Australia are so good that we knew we had to come out fighting,” said England’s Lily Owsley. “Our coach told us to take the first swing and keep swinging, and we did, because if you sit off a team like Australia they will just keep coming at you.”

Australia tried to do that in the second half, but couldn’t find a way past Maddie Hinch. There were only 19 seconds left to play when she was finally beaten by Rosie Malone off a penalty corner. The crowd had just started singing their version of Three Lions. “I laughed and thought ‘I’m about to run on the pitch to celebrate here’ when I heard that,” Peel said. “And then the goal went in and I thought: ‘Oh no they’ve jinxed it!’”

England fans watch from the stands.
‘Hockey’s coming home’… The crowd began singing an adapted version of Three Lions before the final whistle. Photograph: Darren England/EPA

England had been in this sort of situation before. In the 2014 final they were leading 1-0 when Australia equalized with 11 seconds to play, and then won the game in a shootout. The memory of that defeat still haunts England’s captain, Hollie Pearne-Webb.

She spoke before the match about how she was determined not to let a similar thing happen again. And this time her team held out while the crowd counted down the final seconds. As soon as they made it to zero, Laura Unsworth hit the ball out and the celebrations began.

Or they did for everyone except Pearne-Webb, who made a point of going off to shake hands with every single Australian coach and player before her team dragged her away to join in with their singing and dancing. The team had not won a medal at home since the 2015 European Championship.

This one was all the sweeter for the memory of the players’ experience at the Tokyo Olympics last year, when the GB team that won bronze were not able to celebrate with their friends and families because none of them were allowed to travel. That GB team will be back together soon, one eye on the next Olympics in Paris, and even greater glory.

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LA Hotel Staff Reacts to Proposal to Open Vacant Rooms to Homeless

LA Hotel Staff Reacts to Proposal to Open Vacant Rooms to Homeless

  • A recently proposed ordinance in Los Angeles would require hotels to open up vacant rooms to homeless people.
  • Hotel workers spoke both for and against the proposal at a city council meeting on Friday.
  • The ordinance will appear on Los Angeles voters’ ballots in 2024, the council decided.

Hotel workers, some of whom have experienced homelessness themselves in recent years, shared their input Friday on a controversial ordinance that would require Los Angeles hotels to rent vacant rooms to homeless people through a voucher program.

The proposed initiative, titled the “Responsible Hotel Ordinance,” is backed by the hospitality worker union Unite Here Local 11 and will appear on Los Angeles’ voters ballots in 2024, the Los Angeles Times first reported.

At a city council meeting on Friday, hotel workers and industry players voiced opinions for and against the proposal, with several noting that staff members are not properly trained to provide the mental health and social services required to adequately address unsheltered individuals’ needs.

Thomas Franklin, a night auditor at the Beverly Hills Marriott in West Los Angeles, said he himself was homeless ten years ago and described a “chaotic” experience living in a transitional housing program that had 24-hour security and staff on hand.

“With all the drugs, all the fighting… we did not have the support in order to make it a successful program there,” he told council members on Friday. “Without having a clearly defined support from policing and mental services, there’s no way that I think that this is something that we should be able to do.”

An owner of the Hampton Inn Suites in Los Angeles reiterated these concerns, saying his employees are “absolutely scared and fear not just for their lives and their safety, but also for how we are treating the homeless and unsheltered.”

“There has to be a more humane way to take care of this problem,” he continued. “My staff is here with me today… this is no joke to them. If this passes, they will look for other opportunities.”

Dixie Moore (R) talks with representatives from St Joseph Center Homeless Services who will help her move from her tent encampment along the Venice Beach Boardwalk, to short-term housing in a nearby hotel July 2, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.

Dixie Moore (right) talks with representatives from St Joseph Center Homeless Services who will help her move from her tent encampment along the Venice Beach Boardwalk to short-term housing in a nearby hotel on July 2, 2021.

Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images


Carly Kirchen, an organizer for the worker’s union backing the ordinance, said hotel owners are perpetuating the “myth” that “every person experiencing homelessness is so sick that they are a danger to the people around them,” adding that thousands of Local 11 members are currently facing eviction.

“Even as a union member with a good-paying job, I was recently homeless due to the housing crisis in our city,” Bambian Taft, a hotel minibar attendant and former housekeeper, said.

Other speakers noted the proposed ordinance’s lack of economic data and funding information. Richard Earle, an executive at the hotel insurance provider Petra RiskSolutions, said the proposal would cause carriers to “legitimately pull coverage.”

“It will not be available because it changes the entire scope of the business,” he said, adding that coverage for hotels adhering to the initiative would be four to five times more expensive than their current rates. “It will be a direct destructive punitive impact on their business.”

The ordinance would also require hotels that demolish housing in order to build new developments to replace the destroyed units with affordable housing. Ronald Bermudez, who said he works as a bellman at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, voiced support for this initiative at the meeting Friday.

“I’m a renter at near the downtown area,” he told council members. “It will become so difficult to stay in Los Angeles due to the high cost of rent. We need to do everything we can to protect housing in our city.”

Are you a hotel worker struggling to afford housing? Reach out to this reporter from a non-work address at [email protected]

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We Miss These Quirky Android Phone Experiments

We Miss These Quirky Android Phone Experiments

Being an Android user can be a clunky experience sometimes, but it can also open you up to a bunch of new device quirks you won’t find elsewhere. Whereas Apple chooses to put only features that match its sleek image on the iPhone, Android manufacturers have taken more risks in pursuing market share. It’s one of the fun parts of wielding an Android device.

This week reminded me what it’s like to have that suddenly taken away. OnePlus launched the 10T smartphone without its signature alert slider. The company knew it would cause some of its fans to protest enough that it released an official statement as to why it had to remove the physical alert slider. It made me think: how many random and interesting Android device features have we lost because they were just a little outlandish?

OnePlus 7 Pro’s pop-up camera

Photo: Sam Rutherford/GizmodoPhoto: Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo

Let’s start with another OnePlus feature that is no longer with us. The OnePlus 7 Pro was an impressive flagship launch from the company. But it arrived before OEMs figured out how to implement the punch-hole camera. To deliver on its promises of an all-screen display, OnePlus introduced a front-facing pop-up camera on the 7 Pro instead. It would peek out when you wanted to shoot a selfie or engage in video chat, and would make a cutesy whirring sound every time.

Of course, every gimmick has its caveats. The pop-up camera wasn’t the most robust, and some people complained about lint and debris getting into the module after some use. Not to mention, it’s not very repairable.

Sony’s pop-out PSP phone

Photo: Kat Hannaford/GizmodoPhoto: Kat Hannaford/Gizmodo

OK, sorry, this is actually called the Xperia Play, and you might have seen it making the blogging rounds over ten years ago. Made by Sony Ericsson, the phone was based on Android, but it was a handheld gaming machine at its core. The phone featured a slide-out controller with “joystick touchpads” so you could play any of the 50 pre-formatted PlayStation games, plus whatever was on the Android Marketplace at the time.

Asus’ transforming tablet-phone

Photo: Sean Hollister/GizmodoPhoto: Sean Hollister/Gizmodo

Before foldables, if you wanted a phone/tablet hybrid situation, you had to buy one of these: an Asus Padfone. This one, in particular, is the Asus PadFone X Mini, which featured a main 4.5-inch smartphone that could dock inside a 7-inch tablet. It was available at AT&T in 2014, though it didn’t have the best specifications. In addition to having a crappy display and even crappier cameras, the duo of devices was powered by an Intel processor back when the company was trying its hand at smartphone chips (and not exactly making strides).

We miss YotaPhone’s e-ink backside

Photo: Darren Orf / GizmodoPhoto: Darren Orf / Gizmodo

The YotaPhone 2 was a second-generation Russian smartphone that was very cool! It had a 4.7-inch LCD on the front that let you access the Android OS and an e-ink display on the back to serve as backup. You could use that part of the screen for reading or even navigating maps if you were trying to save on battery. But according to our review of the device at the time, a “plethora of graphical issues and sluggish responsiveness” ultimately killed the smartphone’s chances of success.

Why were Samsung and LG making round phones?

Image: SamsungImage: Samsung

Ah, yes. The round phone trend. Samsung attempted it in 2013 with the Galaxy Round, a smartphone with “the world’s first commercialized full HD Super AMOLED flexible display.” The phone’s 5.7-inch display curved vertically when you were holding it in portrait mode, and it didn’t lay flat on a table on its backside.

LG also had its hands on the curved screen trend with the G Flex, which it followed with a second-generation release. I remember one of the major caveats of the device was being able to press down on the screen, since it was made of a flexible P-OLED.

All hail the original Android rollerball

Photo: Jason Chen / GizmodoPhoto: Jason Chen / Gizmodo

Android started its journey into weird and wacky add-ons with the rollerball on the first ever Nexus One. Back then, you could navigate through Android home screens using the touch-swipe mechanism or by rolling left and right on the rollerball, placed in the same area as the former Home button on the iPhone. Other Android phones adopted this feature, including my first ever Android phone, the HTC Incredible. But it was eventually phased out to make more room for the screen.

Wait, we still need a phone with a radiation detector

Image: Engadget / PantoneImage: Engadget / Pantone

Sorry to bring the mood down, but these colorful smartphones from Pantone released back in 2012 were also capable of reporting your radiation level. It’s called the Sharp Pantone 5 ICS, and it was a Japan-only release. Sharp reduced the radiation circuits needed for the phone into a tiny package, which was quite a manufacturing feat at the time. Unfortunately, this seems like a feature that could make its way back around after all the climate disasters we’ve been facing. Eep.

Plug-and-play modularity, a la Project Ara

Photo: Sean Hollister/GizmodoPhoto: Sean Hollister/Gizmodo

Google’s modular smartphone made me hopeful for a future where smartphones weren’t contributing to the massive piles of e-waste sequestered from immediate human view. Project Ara let you easily swap out modules from an “endoskeleton” so that you could upgrade the camera, processor, or whatever else. Unfortunately, those tiles cost way too much to produce for a phone that didn’t yet have mainstream appeal, and Google ultimately killed the project in 2016.

We now have a version of the modular phone with the Fairphone, but it requires a bit of a tinkerer’s touch to change components comfortably.

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Commonwealth Games 2022: England disqualified in 400m relay, gold medal stripped for infringement

Commonwealth Games 2022: England disqualified in 400m relay, gold medal stripped for infringement

England has been stripped of the gold medal in the 4x400m relay in high drama on Monday morning (AEST).

It appeared England had pulled off one of the headline moments of the entire Games when Jessie Knight held off Canada’s fast-finishing Kyra Constantine down the final straight to cross the line just 0.01 seconds ahead.

Fans inside Alexander Stadium went berserk when the replays showed Knight had just done enough for a famous victory. Or so they thought.

As the final event on the final day of athletics for the entire Games, it is enough to leave a sour taste in the mouths of the English fans — and many of them had already left the stadium before the disqualification was announced.

The England team wasn’t even told the news until after they had completed a victory lap.

However, there can be no doubting that the officials got the call right. It was announced that England had committed an infringement at the end of the first leg during the first baton change.

Replays showed English runner Jodie Williams had drifted to the inside lane (Lane 2) as she positioned herself to receive the baton and take off from that position.

England launched an immediate appeal, but 20 minutes later it was announced that the appeal had been tossed out.

As a result of the disqualification Canada took gold, Jamaica silver and Scotland was promoted to the bronze medal.

It finished off an incredible night at the track, which included Peter Bol’s silver medal win in the men’s 800m.

Scotland’s Laura Muir ended her Commonwealth Games campaign with a flourish by winning gold in the 1500m.

The 29-year-old’s teammate, 10,000m champion Eilish McColgan, just failed to make it a memorable double, finishing second behind Kenya’s impressive world silver medalist Beatrice Chebet in the 5,000m.

Muir, who won bronze in the 800m on Sunday (AEST), kicked for glory before the bell and ran a fairly moderate field — lacking two-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon — ragged, timing 4min 02.75sec.

The Olympic silver medallist was overjoyed, having failed to medal in 2014 and missing the 2018 Games due to veterinary exams.

“You learn from it and your time will come,” said Muir, who will bid for more gold medals in the upcoming European Championships.

“It sounds cheesy but it’s true. Eight years of Commonwealths and it’s been bugging me so this means a lot.”

India have also had an excellent athletics competition — Eldhose Paul won their first-ever men’s triple jump gold earlier on Sunday — but bitter rivals Pakistan also had a taste of glory.

Arshad Nadeem, wearing strapping around his right arm, gave the Asian nation their first javelin gold with a Games record mark of 90.18 meters.

Nigeria’s Ese Brume won the women’s long jump competition, leaping 7.00m. Despite the fierce competition, though there was still room for sentiment between rivals.

Recently crowned world champion Kelsey-Lee Barber earlier won the women’s javelin with a throw of 64.43m while Canada’s Evan Dunfee won the men’s 10,000 race walk.

Trinidad and Tobago won the men’s 4x400m relay.

– with AFP

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Channel Country advisory group outcomes about gas exploration and fracking remain secret

Channel Country advisory group outcomes about gas exploration and fracking remain secret

Almost 12 months after the Queensland government quietly granted oil and gas leases in the environmentally sensitive Channel Country they promised to protect, there are calls for the outcome of stakeholder meetings to be made public.

Last year the government granted 11 petroleum leases across more than 250,000 hectares of land in the Channel Country bioregion of the Lake Eyre Basin to gas company Origin Energy, which could allow unconventional gas production, known as fracking to occur, outraging locals who were not consulted .

Now, an advisory group made up of traditional owner groups, local government, landholders and other interested parties has met with the government for the last time, but the outcome of those meetings remains secret.

Managing director of one of the state’s largest organic beef producers, OBE Organic, Dalene Wray said the meetings should be more open to those, like her, who were not involved.

“I would have hoped that the Queensland government would perhaps be more transparent about the outcomes of these discussions,” Ms Wray said.

The Department of Environment and Science said in a statement last month that the government would use the information from the Lake Eyre Basin Stakeholder Advisory Group to prepare a Regulatory Impact Statement looking at the long-term sustainable management of the area.

A map showing the Lake Eyre drainage basin, including the major rivers.
Channel Country waterways are filling with Queensland floodwaters that will drain into Lake Eyre.(Supplied: Karl Musser)

In a separate statement to the ABC, a spokesperson for the department said the government was still committed to protecting the “long-term health and ecological integrity of the waterways and floodplains of the Lake Eyre Basin.”

The statement also said there will be further opportunities to consult with the government, during the consultation period of the Regulatory Impact Statement, which the government expects to be released later this year.

But Ms Wray said she had no further information about how the proposal would impact neighboring properties or production.

Organic status in jeopardy

Wangkanguru Yarluyandi woman Karen Monaghan has lived in Windorah her whole life and grew up swimming in the Cooper Creek, an experience she hoped to pass on to her grandchildren.

A close-up of an Aboriginal woman's face bathed in dappled sunlight as she stands under a tree in a backyard.
Karen Monaghan says fracking in the Channel Country is “not an option.”(ABC Western Queensland: Ellie Grounds)

She said she was worried about gas exploration and fracking would hurt her small community, the water, and the land around it.

“Wangkanguru Yarluyandi land is being mistreated,” Mrs Monaghan said.

“Our land is our mother… it is part of us and who we are.

“It’s embedded in us, our country. If we look after our land it will look after us … it’s not OK to mistreat our land.”

Despite a previous lack of consultation that had been frustrating, Mrs Monaghan was hopeful communication from the government would improve.

“I believe it’s never too late,” she said.

“Our government just has to step up and step out and reach out to us. It’s never too late.”

Aerial view of a dark web of rivulets between green and islands of red sand, Channel Country of Queensland
In 2019, the Queensland government was advised by environmental scientists that fracking in the Channel Country was “unacceptable”.(Supplied: Helen Commens)

She was also concerned about what the exploration would mean for beef operations in the area.

“The minute you frack you can’t call it organic beef,” Mrs Monaghan said.

“The Lake Eyre Basin is my home, so fracking is not an option for me. There is no way we want fracking.

“It’s going to set our land and our country back.”

‘Geographic masterpiece’ at risk

OBE Organic sources all its cattle from the Channel Country, marketing its products as being “seasoned by nature”, and works closely with traditional owners in the region.

A wide photo of green and brown landscape.
Floodwaters traveling down through the Lake Eyre Basin.(ABC News: Brendan Esposito)

Ms Wray said if fracking became a reality it would risk the organic status of the Basin, which is one of the last remaining free-flowing river systems in the world.

“From an organic producers perspective, if there is any resource activity, they’re [organic producers] going to be concerned,” she said.

A map of locations in the Channel Country have production licenses from Origin Energy
Origin Energy petroleum leases cover more than 250,000 hectares of land.(Supplied: Queensland government)

Ms Wray said she was not convinced the potential risks to the environment could be adequately mitigated, and she feared large mining operations would not understand the needs of organic operations to retain their certification.

“It’s a geographic masterpiece… It’s important that the government understands that any activity is likely to have significant consequences,” she said.

“What we know from experience is that typically, the resources industry doesn’t necessarily like going off script.

“They’ve got one script they like to use for all producers and they’d like all producers to accept that script and that’s just not how it works out here, certainly on organic properties.”

Broken environmental promise

Before the 2015 election, the government committed to restore protections to the wild rivers, which would limit gas exploration in the Channel Country.

It came after they slammed the Newman government’s 2013 decision to ditch the protection laws, which they labeled as “environmental vandalism.”

In the following elections, the government made similar promises, but Ms Wray said the protections had not come to fruition.

An aerial shot of cattle grazing in a green paddock in Western Queensland's Channel Country.
OBE Organic rely on the naturally organic landscapes in the Channel Country to source their cattle.(Supplied: OBE Organic)

“I don’t think there’s been too much evidence, other than the stakeholder meetings, that we are making any progress in meeting that election commitment,” she said.

“I understand that royalties are very important to the Queensland budget… I think everyone would be naive to think the resources industry doesn’t have a place in Queensland.

“I haven’t heard the government articulate how important the rivers in the Lake Eyre Basin are and how important it is to maintain the free-flowing nature of those rivers.

“However, unconventional gas does not have a place in the Lake Eyre Basin.”

Government ‘committed to sustainability’

A spokesperson from the Department of Resources said in a statement that the Queensland government was “committed to achieving a balance between economic prosperity and ecological sustainability in the Lake Eyre Basin”.

“Any resource project must stack up environmentally, socially and financially and assessed against strict criteria,” it read.

“Any application cannot be granted unless native title has been addressed properly.”

The ABC also sought responses from the Minister for Environment and the Office of the Great Barrier Reef, which declined to comment.

An Origin spokesperson said it was very early days with regard to any proposed exploration activity in the permit areas.

“In Queensland, there are strict regulations that must be met for any resource development application in an identified planning strategic environmental area such as the Channel Country,” they said.

“As is the case with all our operations, we put in place approved management plans, procedures and controls to protect the environment and waterways, as well as areas of cultural significance.

“We always look to establish positive relationships and reach agreements to access resources on good terms. We’re looking forward to engaging further about the positive contribution future exploration activity can have in these communities.

“Any new development would need to be consistent with our stated carbon commitments.”

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Hot mic catches Dem Sen. Sherrod Brown snap at Bernie Sanders’ child tax credit bid

Hot mic catches Dem Sen. Sherrod Brown snap at Bernie Sanders' child tax credit bid

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) was caught on a hot mic snapping “Come on, Bernie” early Sunday as tensions flared on the Senate floor over Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bid to replenish the child tax credit.

Sanders offered the amendment, which would have raised the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%, during the “vote-a-rama” session where Democrats pushed to pass their massive tax, health care and climate bill, dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act.”

“This is the wealthiest nation on Earth, we should not have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any country,” Sanders said in remarks from the floor.

Sanders’ move to push for the tax credit of $300 per month for the next five years after it lapsed near the end of 2021, drew pushback from Democrats he caucuses with, who noted they couldn’t support it as they focused on pushing through the full bill, which later passed 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.

“We know that this is a fragile arrangement, and we’ve got to pass it — as much as I’d like to do [a corporate tax increase],” Brown said.

His time elapsed but he was caught saying “Come on, Bernie!” on his mic from him, according to Mediaite.

Chairman Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as she testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Sen. Sherrod Brown was caught on a hot mic mocking Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bid to replenish the child tax credit.
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Sen. Michael Bennet, of Colorado, also said voting with Sanders “could lose the underlying bill.”

The amendment failed 1-97, with only Sanders backing it.

Brown and Bennet both have long advocated putting the tax credit back in place, but rebuffed Sanders’ appeal because they said it threatened the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, according to The Hill.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., questions witnesses during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Sanders was pushing his colleagues to raise the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%.
AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta

The child tax credit was included in the American Rescue Plan passed last year.

Other amendments proposed by Sanders were also overwhelmingly rejected, including greatly expanding the bill’s number of prescription drugs eligible for price negotiation under Medicare for the elderly and widening Medicare coverage for eyeglasses, hearing aids and dental care.

Sanders was less than thrilled with the overall substance of the bill.

“I want to take a moment to say a few words about the so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ that we are debating this evening,” Sanders said Saturday night. “And I say ‘so-called’ by the way because according to the (Congressional Budget Office) and other economic organizations that have studied the bill it will have a minimal impact on inflation.”

Debate on the $433 billion legislation opened Saturday when Harris broke a tiebreaker in the Senate chambers, clearing a hurdle for the Senate to pass the bill and send it to the House for a vote.

With Post wires

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How to Take a Screenshot on a OnePlus Smartphone

take a screenshot on a oneplus phone

A screenshot is the easiest way to capture the contents on your phone’s screen and share it with others. However, depending on the smartphone you use, there will be different ways you can take a screenshot on it.

take a screenshot on a oneplus phone

As a result, if you’ve recently switched phones, you might be wondering how to capture screenshots on it. If it’s a OnePlus smartphone, there are multiple ways to do this.

Follow along as we list down all the different methods to take a screenshot on a OnePlus smartphone.

Method 1: Take a Screenshot on a OnePlus Phone Using Hardware Keys

One of the most common methods of capturing a screenshot on Android devices is to use the hardware keys. OnePlus smartphones also employ this method, and it’s pretty convenient.

With this method, you simply need to press a key combination, and the device immediately captures the screen. Here are the steps to take a screenshot using the hardware method:

  1. Open the screen you want to capture on your phone.
  2. Press the Volume Down and Power key together quickly and release them as soon as your phone screen flashes.
    taking screenshot on a oneplus phone using hardware keys

    IMAGE: OnePlus

Once captured, you’ll see a screenshot preview in the screen’s bottom-left or bottom-right, depending on where you set the preview window location.

screenshot preview on a oneplus phone

Click it to open it for editing. Or press the Compartir button to open sharing options to send the screenshot. If you missed clicking on the preview in time, you could swipe down on the status bar to access the screenshot in the notification bar.

Clicking on the screenshot also gives you multiple editing options, such as crop, markup, text, and many more, which you can use to annotate, highlight, or crop your screenshot. Hit Save after you’ve finished editing to save the screenshot image.

Captured screenshots are saved to the screenshots album in the Photos app.

Method 2: Take a Screenshot on a OnePlus Phone Using Gestures

OnePlus offers a bunch of gestures on its smartphones to give you quick access to various system features. There’s also a dedicated gesture for taking screenshots, which makes screenshotting much easier than the hardware-based method.

First, follow these steps to enable gesture screenshotting on your OnePlus phone:

  1. Open Settings and go to System settings > Screenshot.
  2. Toggle on the switch for 3-finger swipe down and 3-finger touch and hold screenshot options.
    enabling gesture screenshot on a oneplus phone

Now, you can capture the screenshot using gestures like this:

  1. Open the screen to capture.
  2. Yo. To screenshot the entire screen: Swipe down with 3 fingers on the screen.
    ii. To screenshot part of the screen: Tap and hold with three fingers on the screen to bring up the area selection. Drag down to select the area and lift your fingers to capture it. To re-adjust your selection, move the selected box up or down on the screen and tap the tick button on the top-right corner to save it.

How to Take a Scrolling Screenshot on a OnePlus Device

At times, taking a regular screenshot or capturing one of a selected area might just not be enough. For example, if you’re on a screen with a long list of items, perhaps an article on a website, a settings page, or a long chat, and you want to capture all of them, you need the scrolling screenshot functionality.

Here’s how to take a scrolling screenshot on a OnePlus phone:

  1. Open the screen with content that goes beyond a single page.
  2. Take a screenshot using either hardware buttons or the 3-finger swipe.
  3. Once the screenshot is taken, click on the Scroll button below the screenshot preview, and it will automatically start capturing the entire screen.
    screenshot preview on a oneplus phone
  4. Hit donate at the bottom to save the captured screenshot. If you don’t wish to capture the entirety of the page, swipe up or down on the captured page to adjust the capture length.
    taking scrolling screenshot on a oneplus
  5. Hit the checkmark in the top-right corner to save the screenshot.

Never Miss A Screenshot Opportunity Again

Screenshotting is possibly one of the best features on any device, including smartphones. It’s a sure-shot way to record what’s displayed on your screen, be it from an app, a picture, or a frame in a video.

With OxygenOS, you get multiple ways to take screenshots on your OnePlus smartphone, as we discussed earlier in this post. So now, the next time you come across something interesting/informative on your screen, you can take a screenshot of it easily and save it for future reference.

FAQs About Taking Screenshots on OnePlus Smartphones

Screenshots are saved to the Screenshots album in the Photos app. To access them via a file manage, navigate to Internal Storage > Pictures > Screenshots.

While the hardware-based screenshot method is really helpful, it can sometimes accidentally capture a screenshot when you don’t need it. If this keeps happening to you, you can disable the screenshot shortcut and rely on the gesture-based method instead.

Here’s how to turn off the screenshot shortcut:

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Go to System Settings and select screenshot.
  3. Toggle off the switch for Power and Volume Down buttons.
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Patrick Cripps to face match review scrutiny over hit on Callum Ah Chee

Patrick Cripps to face match review scrutiny over hit on Callum Ah Chee

It left trump cards Charlie Curnow and Harry McKay all but toothless, at least until Carlton seized the initiative late in the contest and gave them a chance to make an impact. But by then it was too late.

Their best players were in defence, which was not surprising, given how busy they were kept. Jacob Weitering held Joe Daniher goalless and almost kickless and Adam Saad, in his 150th game, had the better of his duel with Charlie Cameron.

Zac Bailey celebrates after kicking one of his goals.

Zac Bailey celebrates after kicking one of his goals.Credit:AFL Pictures

Captain Dayne Zorko led from the front with his most influential game of the year, and Zac Bailey was electric with four goals. Lachie Neale, as usual, was quick and clean, and finished with 32 possessions.

The Lions’ midfield, which has been unsettled all year, lifted and dominated Carlton, especially early. Oscar McInerney’s physicality was important in the ruck, as was Mathieson at ground level, and center clearances finished 24-8 the Lions’ way.

Other fine contributors were McStay, who finished with four goals and seven marks, while Jarrod Berry and Hugh McCluggage also worked hard around the contest.

BRISBANE LIONS 4.6 8.9 13.11 17.12 (114)
CARLTON 0.1 3.4 4.8 12.9 (81)

GOALS
Bris Lions: Bailey 4, McStay 4, Cameron 2, Zorko, Hipwood, McCarthy, Neale, Berry, Robinson, Mathieson.
Carlton: Curnow 2, Motlop 2, Fisher 2, Owies, McKay, Cripps, Martin, Durdin, Newnes.
BEST
Bris Lions: Neale, Bailey, Zorko, McCluggage, McInerney, Mathieson.
Carlton: Weitering, Docherty, Saad, Walsh, Cripps, McGovern.
INJURIES
Bris Lions: Ah Chee (concussion).
Carlton: Martin (Ankle).
CROWD 31,011 at the Gabba.

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Hot mic catches Dem Sen. Sherrod Brown snap at Bernie Sanders’ child tax credit bid

Hot mic catches Dem Sen. Sherrod Brown snap at Bernie Sanders' child tax credit bid

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) was caught on a hot mic snapping “Come on, Bernie” early Sunday as tensions flared on the Senate floor over Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bid to replenish the child tax credit.

Sanders offered the amendment, which would have raised the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%, during the “vote-a-rama” session where Democrats pushed to pass their massive tax, health care and climate bill, dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act.”

“This is the wealthiest nation on Earth, we should not have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any country,” Sanders said in remarks from the floor.

Sanders’ move to push for the tax credit of $300 per month for the next five years after it lapsed near the end of 2021, drew pushback from Democrats he caucuses with, who noted they couldn’t support it as they focused on pushing through the full bill, which later passed 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote.

“We know that this is a fragile arrangement, and we’ve got to pass it — as much as I’d like to do [a corporate tax increase],” Brown said.

His time elapsed but he was caught saying “Come on, Bernie!” on his mic from him, according to Mediaite.

Chairman Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as she testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Sen. Sherrod Brown was caught on a hot mic mocking Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bid to replenish the child tax credit.
Tom Williams/Pool via AP

Sen. Michael Bennet, of Colorado, also said voting with Sanders “could lose the underlying bill.”

The amendment failed 1-97, with only Sanders backing it.

Brown and Bennet both have long advocated putting the tax credit back in place, but rebuffed Sanders’ appeal because they said it threatened the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, according to The Hill.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., questions witnesses during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Sanders was pushing his colleagues to raise the corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%.
AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta

The child tax credit was included in the American Rescue Plan passed last year.

Other amendments proposed by Sanders were also overwhelmingly rejected, including greatly expanding the bill’s number of prescription drugs eligible for price negotiation under Medicare for the elderly and widening Medicare coverage for eyeglasses, hearing aids and dental care.

Sanders was less than thrilled with the overall substance of the bill.

“I want to take a moment to say a few words about the so-called ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ that we are debating this evening,” Sanders said Saturday night. “And I say ‘so-called’ by the way because according to the (Congressional Budget Office) and other economic organizations that have studied the bill it will have a minimal impact on inflation.”

Debate on the $433 billion legislation opened Saturday when Harris broke a tiebreaker in the Senate chambers, clearing a hurdle for the Senate to pass the bill and send it to the House for a vote.

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Technology

Sony drops the price of these headphones, the competition of the AirPods

Sony drops the price of these headphones, the competition of the AirPods

We talk about the model Sony WF-XB700. Totally wireless, in-ear and most ergonomic headphones. They are suitable for any ear size, and stand out for their comfort and, above all, their sound quality. We are sure that, if you are looking for an alternative to Apple AirPods, these inaurals will not disappoint you in the least. Let’s see them!

Sony WF-XB700: the alternative to AirPods

Its appearance, we can guarantee you, it is unique and daring, as you can see in the reference image of the product. They bear a resemblance to Google’s Pixel Buds. They will make them attach to any ear quickly and comfortably.

Something of the most remarkable, before moving on to the sound section, is their autonomy. You will be able to listen to up to 18 hours of music thanks to a practical and small charging case that will provide you two loads of up to 9 hours.

And if you’re in a hurry, you can quickly charge the headphones for 10 minutes and enjoy other 60 range. Couldn’t ask for more for this great quality! And it is that choosing new headphones is not an easy task.

it has to chip that transmits sound in both ears simultaneously, with an optimized antenna design to ensure the most stable connection. That will also give you low audio latency to enjoy even surround sound in videos.

likewise, equips IPX43 water resistance, which will ensure that nothing happens when there are splashes of water or sweat. Of course, do not go to put the water.

What stands out most about the audio is its powerful bass and bass that will reverberate in your ear. Your favorite bass lines have never sounded so good. We can guarantee that it will compete with any headset on the market.

Also include voice assistant from both Google and Siri. You won’t have to take your hands out of your pocket even to change songs. Simply activate the assistant through voice commands and ask him to change the list, change the song, or make a call. What you want.

Half price on Amazon

As we told you, the offer leaves these headphones at a truly price good for a limited time. They are originally priced at 150 euros. But if what you want is to get the top of the range for the lowest possible price… Now they are only 65.60 euros. That’s 56% off, nothing more, nothing less!

We think they are well worth it for this price. So take advantage and get them in the following link for a limited time: