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The dialog-optimized AI Blenderbot 3 can research information on the Internet and integrate it into conversations. Meta publishes a web demo and models of the system to collaboratively improve its security.
Blenderbot 3 is Meta’s version of Google’s Lamda, the AI chat system that recently successfully faked consciousness to a Google engineer. Blenderbot has been in the works since around 2020, with the goal of developing a chatbot with personality, empathy, and extensive knowledge of the world.
The last major update dates back to 2021, when Meta added to Blenderbot 2 the ability to research information on the Internet from reliable sources to reduce its susceptibility to nonsensical statements. Meta also integrated a long-term memory that allows the bot to store relevant information about its answers or talking partners.
Blenderbot 3 is based on Meta’s open-source language model
According to Meta, Blenderbot 3 scores 31 percent better dialog ratings than its predecessor in initial tests with human counterparts. The human testers rated Blenderbot 3 as twice as knowledgeable compared to the second version. In addition, the system is said to be factually incorrect in 47 percent fewer cases.
Blenderbot 3 in action. | Video: Goal
This progress is especially due to the upgrade of the language model: Blenderbot 3 is based on the 175 billion parameter model of Meta’s open-source language transformer OPT and is, according to Meta, about 58 times larger than Blenderbot 2.
Compared to GPT-3, Blenderbot gives more up-to-date answers 82 percent of the time and more specific answers 76 percent of the time, according to Meta. However, Blenderbot’s training data is more up-to-date than GPT-3’s.
Open-source approach for greater security
With the release of the open source model and a web demo, Meta’s primary goal is to drive data collection, discourse about, and advancement of secure conversational AI.
“Our research goal is to collect and release conversational feedback data that we and the broader AI research community can leverage over time to eventually find new ways for conversational AI systems to optimize both safety and engagingness for everyone who uses them,” Meta writes.
Initial analysis of the web demo showed that 0.16 percent of Blenderbot 3 responses were flagged as unfriendly or inappropriate. The “ideal” 0 percent would likely require user-level customization, Meta’s research team suspects. It would be a difficult balance between security and willingness to engage in dialogue – the bot might try to change the subject on sensitive topics, for example.
Long-term goal: Language as the main interface for computers and useful virtual assistants
Meta refers to Blenderbot 3 as a “significant advance” over chatbots currently available to the public. However, the system is “certainly not at a human level” and occasionally gives incorrect, inconsistent, off-topic, or otherwise unsatisfactory answers, the researchers said.
Through interactions with the demo, Meta hopes to continue to improve the model and provide updated model snapshots to the AI community. The team’s goal is to one day “AI-powered computers that everyone can chat with in genuinely helpful and interesting ways.”
Head here for the Blenderbot 3 web demo, which is currently only available from the US The code, datasets, and smaller models are freely available from Parlai.
The most powerful 175-billion model, as with OPT, is only available to select individuals and institutions from the research community upon request.
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Actor Anne Heche has been hospitalized after a crash in which her car smashed into a house and flames erupted, according to a friend.
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Police say Anne Heche’s speeding car ran off the road and into a Los Angeles house
It started a blaze that took fire crews more than an hour to put out
She was rescued with critical injuries, according to fire crews
“Anne is currently in a stable condition. Her family and friends ask for your thoughts and prayers and to respect her privacy during this difficult time,” Heather Duffy Boylston, Heche’s friend and podcast partner, said in a statement.
Earlier reports suggested Heche was in hospital in a critical condition.
Heche’s speeding car came to a T-shaped intersection and ran off the road and into the house in the Mar Vista section of Los Angeles’ westside shortly before 11am Friday, Los Angeles police officer Tony Im said.
The car came to a stop inside the two-storey house and started a fire that took nearly 60 firefighters more than an hour to put out, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD).
The LAFD reported that the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle was rescued after being critically injured in the crash.
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Television news video showed a blue Mini Cooper Clubman, badly damaged and burned, being towed out of the home, with a woman sitting up on a stretcher and struggling as firefighters put her in an ambulance.
No other injuries were reported, and no arrests have been made. Police are investigating.
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A native of Ohio, Heche first came to prominence on the US soap opera Another World from 1987 to 1991.
She won a Daytime Emmy Award for the role.
In the late 1990s, she became one of the hottest actors in Hollywood, a constant on magazine covers and in big-budget films.
She co-starred with Johnny Depp in 1997’s Donnie Brasco; with Tommy Lee Jones in 1997’s Volcano; with Harrison Ford in 1998’s Six Days, Seven Nights; with Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix in 1998’s Return to Paradise, and with an ensemble cast in the original 1997 I Know What You Did Last Summer.
Her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres from 1997 to 2000 heightened her fame and brought immense public scrutiny.
Anne Heche (right) had a high-profile relationship with Ellen Degeneres in the late 1990s. (AFP: Hector Mata)
In the fall of 2000, soon after the two broke up, Heche was hospitalized after knocking on the door of a stranger in a rural area near Fresno, California.
Authorities said she had appeared shaken and disoriented, speaking incoherently to the residents.
In a memoir released the following year, Call Me Crazy, Heche talked about her lifelong struggles with mental health and a childhood of abuse.
She was married to camera operator Coleman Laffoon from 2001 to 2009.
The two had a son together.
She had another son during a relationship with actor James Tupper, her co-star on the TV series Men In Trees.
He has worked consistently in smaller films, on Broadway, and TV shows in the past two decades.
She recently had recurring roles on the network series Chicago PD and All Rise, and in 2020 was a contestant on Dancing With the Stars.
Better Together, the podcast hosted by Heche and Duffy Boylston, is described online as a celebration of friendship.
If you wanted to know just how much Josh Kennedy means to West Coast, just ask every one of his 43 teammates.
Ahead of his final match for the Eagles against Adelaide at Optus Stadium, the Sunday Times has compiled the ultimate tribute to the West Coast premiership star and all-time leading goalkicker.
DON’T MISS YOUR FREE ‘FAREWELL JK’ POSTER WITH TEAMMATES’ TRIBUTES, ONLY IN THE SUNDAY TIMES
From Shannon Hurn, the man West Coast selected nine picks after Kennedy went to Carlton in the 2005 national draft, to mid-season selection Jai Culley, all 43 current Eagles have penned a tribute to their retiring teammate.
And while there was little doubt, the players have confirmed they have big shoes to collectively fill.
Fellow forward Jack Darling said his career had benefited from having the 716-goal spearhead alongside him.
“The big show. Been amazing sharing the 50 with you. Thanks for everything. You mean so much to so many people and thanks for taking the number one defender,” he wrote.
Josh Kennedy after announcing his retirement this week. Credit: Paul Kane/Getty Images via AFL Photos
The heir to Kennedy’s glittering throne Oscar Allen said Kennedy has had a substantial impact on his career on and off the field.
“Thank you for helping me understand what is required to be an AFL footballer but more importantly how to grow up into a man. You’re a champion and can’t wait to tell my kids I played with JK. Love ya mate,” he said.
Premiership teammate and captain Hurn wrote: “Such a great player for the club. Always did your best and made your teammates better. Privilege to play with.”
Andrew Gaff said Kennedy was one of the best players to represent the West Coast.
“I’ve never seen someone play through so much pain and discomfort to then always produce on the big stage. Congrats on an amazing career, enjoy retirement and thanks for making my foot skills look better than they are!”
The ultimate tribute will be available in The Sunday Times’ 12-page liftout celebrating Kennedy’s stunning career.
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A former mortgage broker on a mission to review every pie shop in Australia has taken his pastry pilgrimage to the farthest reaches of North Queensland — and delivered a verdict on the age-old tomato sauce debate.
Shaun Pyne ran a successful finance business for more than 20 years before selling up and hitting the road to realize his life’s ambition of visiting every pie vendor and bakery in Australia, bar none.
Over the intervening years, his Pyney’s Pie Reviews person has developed a huge social media following and raised tens of thousands of dollars for charity along the way.
Shaun Pyne made it to the northernmost tip of Australia during his tour of Cape York.(Supplied)
Five secrets to a perfect foot
Mr Pyne is halfway through a schooner of beer at the Peninsula Hotel in Laura — a Cape York town famed for its Quinkan Aboriginal rock art, but not its pastries — when he gets a call from the ABC.
The baked-good gourmand already has a few weeks’ travel under his belt on this leg of his Australian tour, with a loaded caravan and an insatiable appetite for adventure, great yarns and the perfect meat-to-crust ratio.
And it turns out, he has distilled the foot assessment criteria down to a fine science.
“The five categories that I do my scoring on are value for money, meat ratio, flavour, pastry and temperature,” he explains.
“They get scored out of 10 … and they’re all equally important.
“If you have a hot pie, it’s going to burn your taste buds … if the pastry falls apart while you’re driving that’s going to be a massive issue.
“For me, a real pie, you’ve got to be able to eat in your car – so it’s got to stay stable.”
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Given the price of fuel and the clicks clocked up by his nationwide mission, value for money is obviously going to be a major factor in any foot’s overall score.
“Look, the cost of living is expensive, the meat prices have gone up and yes, pies have gone up,” Mr Pyne says.
“At the end of the day, that’s life.
“But I’ve visited so many bakeries, with the cheapest being $4.10 to the dearest being $8.50.
“But even the $8.50 one, it’s massive, it’s a big pie and it’s great value for money.”
Shaun Pyne travels across Australia in a caravan to try every foot he can.(Supplied: Pyney’s Pie Reviews)
Can Australia really claim the meat pie?
Historical evidence of meat pies can trace their origin back to the Neolithic period of about 6,000 BC, and more recently they were staple dishes sold by street vendors as convenience food to the poor in Medieval Britain.
The dish features throughout British literature and nursery rhymes – take the philandering “Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie” for example, or the ditty about baked blackbirds that now lends its name to Australia’s biggest pie brand, Four’N Twenty.
But even the most parochial Brit must admit the tradition has taken flight since the pie arrived on a new continent with the First Fleet.
Mr Pyne’s recent discovery of a crocodile pie in Port Douglas and a crayfish pie at Bamaga certainly lends evidence to that claim.
Medieval pie bakers didn’t have to worry about the taste of their pastry – it wasn’t for eating.(Image: The Bodleian Library, Oxford/Public Domain)
The ‘dog’s eye and dead horse’ debate
Not every Aussie pie tradition gets the thumbs up from this crust crusader.
Whatever you do, don’t mention the dead horse.
“We’ve had a couple of huge heated debates,” he warns.
“To me, a good Australian pie does not need any sauce whatsoever.
“The only time I put sauce on my feet is when I go to the cricket or the footy.
“The flavors should be just riddled through the pie.
“By putting tomato sauce or some other sauce on, you’re taking away from the aroma and the actual true flavor of the pie.
“Square pie, round pie, oval pie — that’s been a separate debate.”
Mr Pyne falls into the square pie camp but acknowledges rules are made to be broken when it comes to this beloved foodstuff.
Shaun Pyne gets a taste for tropical rock lobster pies at Bernie’s Kai Kai Bar in Bamaga.(Supplied)
A controversy erupted from the recent 2022 Australia Best Pie and Pastie Competition, which he helped judge, after the top award went to a pie that had no meat.
My Pyne said the creamy mushroom and truffle creation was a revelation.
“There was no meat in there … but you know what, I had the privilege of tasting that pie on Wednesday and it was absolutely stunning, beautiful,” he says.
“They’ve come under fire a little bit because the judges did award that best pie… but it is Australia’s best pie competition – it’s not Australia’s best meat pie.
“To be honest, I think the judges got it right.
“This was a beautiful, beautiful foot.”
Shaun Pyne just cannot get enough of the humble meat pie.(Supplied)
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Creativity lies just under the lid
That fungal triumph was nowhere near the strangest meal to pass his lips.
“I’ve had a camel pie [at Birdsville] which was awesome,” he says.
“Roberta from Blackbutt Bakery, she was my first ever perfect score.
“She sells a Big Mac pie and it literally tastes exactly like a Big Mac.
“Whittlesea Bakery in Melbourne, it was another of my perfect scores – it was a slow-cooked brisket, camembert cheese and caramelised onion.”
The remoteness of the Cape meant feet were few and far between during Mr Pyne’s most recent northern journey, but he made up for it by hitting every bakery from the Atherton Tablelands to Innisfail at least once on the way back down.
“My mantra has always been, don’t go to Bali, go to Broken Hill,” he says.
“Get out and see this great country.
“Get out and see North Queensland.
“There’s so much to see up here and I can’t wait to get into the bakeries.”
Early Australian convicts were allotted rations, including salted meat, flour and butter, that could be used to make a pie.(Image: State Library of NSW)
Pyney’s great lifestyle shift
So how does a mortgage broker become a roving gastronomist of the pie variety?
It all started as a bit of nonsense between two mates on the long and dusty trip to the Birdsville Big Red Bash in 2019.
“One of my mates said, ‘I’m gonna have a schooner at every pub ’cause my missus normally drives, blah blah blah,” Mr Pyne explains.
“And I said, look, if you do that I’ll have a walk at every town we stop at while you have your beer.
“So he had plenty of beers and I had plenty of pies, and I just started blogging about it at the end of 2019.”
A couple of horses show interest in Shaun Pyne’s breakfast as his pie review tour takes him to Mareeba(Supplied)
Covid-19 put Mr Pyne and his wife’s travel plans on ice, but a three-and-a-half month trip around the NT last year brought the social media reviews back to the fore.
Selling the family mortgage brokering business helped make it all possible, and writing pie reviews was as good excuse as any to get out and see Australia.
It also helps pay some of the bills.
“It’s a labor of love, mate,” Mr Pyne says.
“We’re lucky, we’ve got older kids and we’ve done very well out of our business.
“And I’ve got merchandise that I sell, so pie bikinis, pie boardshorts, T-shirts, that sort of stuff.
“I’ve got great partners that have sponsored me behind the scenes, which is awesome.
“But we were going to travel anyway, and this is just a great way to get out there and help people.
“Unfortunately it’s a dying profession, so if I can do my little bit to raise tourism, to get people out there spending money in these little communities, it obviously helps them.”
Sometimes on foot cooked in a caravan’s travel oven was the best Pyney could muster during his Cape York trip.
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All things in moderation
Mr Pyne is probably Australia’s best-known pie aficionado behind the late and great Shane Warne, whose fans mourned his passing earlier this year by laying offerings of meat pies, cigarettes, beer and baked beans alongside the flowers at the foot of his statue at the CGM.
Warnie’s shock death in Thailand gave Mr Pyne enough of a fright about his own diet to go see his own GP.
“It’s funny, because obviously with Shane Warne earlier this year, I went straight in,” he says.
“Since Christmas, I’ve lost 14kg, so I’ve been on a diet myself.
“My heart was all good, check-up was all good.
“I go to the gym every day, I work out every day.
“I do smash feet, but I do [social media] content on different days.”
A can of beer and a meat pie are seen amid floral tributes for Shane Warne left at the MCG on March 5, 2022.(ABC News: Danny Morgan)
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You can call them meat pies, dog’s eyes, maggot bags or rat coffins.
As long as the meat ratio is right, it doesn’t send you broke or skin your tongue, the flavor is spot-on and the pastry is flaky and structurally sound, what you call them matters very little.
It’s a purrfect ending to the tale of Boka, the stolen bodega cat.
A mysterious intermediary returned the feline to the Green Olives Deli & Grill in Park Slope a week after a catnapper grabbed the gray kitty outside the Seventh Avenue shop.
Abdulmajeed Albahri, one of three owners of the bodega, said he was reunited with Boka at 5 am Saturday when he arrived an hour before the store opened for the day.
“He was waiting exactly in front of the doors,” Albahri said, adding he spent the next hour playing with the cat and giving him treats.
Video posted to the cat’s KediBoka Instagram account shows the kitty looking up expectantly as his owner opened the deli door to see him.
But how Boka came back is still not clear.
He went missing on July 29 when video captured a man dressed in khakis, a white shirt and a light blue hat lingering outside the store. He is seen scooping up the cat and spiriting him off.
Appeals to get Boka back, along with photos of the fiend, were posted to TikTok and Instagram. The cat’s disappearance also garnered wide media attention.
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The spotlight paid off.
“There was someone who came to the store yesterday and he told me he has news about the cat,” Albahri said Saturday. “He told me he was trying to convince the guy to return the cat.”
Albahri said the Good Samaritan did not provide many details and he didn’t get the man’s name.
“I told him it’s OK for now. I just need my cat back,” he said.
Boka went missing on July 29 after video saw a man taking the cat from the bodega. Albahri said someone had come in and said they were trying to convince the person who had stolen the cat to return it. stefano giovanni
By 7:30 pm Friday, the cat was once again at the deli home where he has lived since January and looked none the worse, Albahri said.
His fans even came to visit after Albahri posted the news on Boka’s Instagram page.
Albahri said Boka brings life to the store because he’s such an active cat, if not somewhat finicky.
“The cat food we sell in the store, sometimes he doesn’t like it,” he said.
Although a complaint had been filed with the NYPD about Boka’s disappearance, police said they did not have any updates Saturday on his return or an arrest.
Gold Coast Suns coach Stuart Dew has admitted he is unsure where star forward Izak Rankine will be playing his football from 2023.
It was originally reported by Chief Sports Reporter at SEN Sam Edmund that the 22-year-old was comfortable in Queensland and was close to recommitting to the club in the wake of buying a new house on the Gold Coast, however, a $4 million deal over five years from Adelaide has thrown a spanner in the works.
Taken with pick number 3 in the 2018 draft from West Adelaide, the return-home factor was always of concern for Stuart Dew and his men, and after 47 games and 55 goals, it may have eventuated sooner than previously hoped.
Speaking in the post-match press conference after the Suns’ seven-point defeat at the hands of Hawthorn, Dew was pragmatic about the future of Rankine.
“He’s obviously got a decision to make, like a lot of guys out of contract at this time of year. There’s a big incentive for him to stay, there’s also a big incentive for him to leave as well,” he said.
“What we’re confident on is that Gold Coast is a great spot for Izak (Rankine( to play his footy and live his life, we’re really clear on that and he knows that.
“But again he’s 22, he’s going to have a decision to make, not unlike (Luke) Jackson at Melbourne and different players around the league so he’s focused on finishing the year, and that’s what’s most important to all of us.
“Our job and the players’ jobs are to be professional and finish the year off, but we still firmly believe that we are the best place for him to play his footy.”
Rankine received a similar offer from Essendon that was centered around his involvement in Dreamtime at the ‘G and The Long Walk, which he later rejected.
The Suns and Rankine face the red-hot Geelong at Metricon Stadium next round.
Stuart Dew and Izak Rankine are still having conversations concerning his future as the Crows have made a BIG offer. pic.twitter.com/NBuf9hDl2o
Adam Bandt could have rightly felt bemused as he was walking through federal parliament.
Barely a day earlier, he’d announced the Greens’ bolstered political ranks would back Labor’s climate change bill, giving the new Prime Minister the votes he needed for landmark laws to reduce carbon emissions.
Bandt cut a lonely figure as he walked alone behind a press gaggle the size you so often only see for major party leaders.
In front of the microphones were six women, all but one new faces in a parliament more diverse than any that came before it.
If success has many fathers and failure is an orphan, then Labor’s climate change bill was a child with more parents than it could poke a stick at.
“The climate wars are nearly over,” Zali Steggall cautiously said.
Zali Steggall is providing a mentor for the teal independents who have followed her into parliament. (ABC News: Nick Haggarty)
pure political maths
In many ways, Labor and the crossbench have plenty to celebrate after this week.
Labor, once the legislation passes the Senate, will have enshrined laws in a policy area fraught with toppling prime ministers.
Bandt too has done what former leaders of his party baulked at.
Arguably, he’s transforming the Greens from a movement to a political party by adopting a pragmatic approach that gets something, even if it’s not as much as his party might have wanted.
And the teals were successful in making minor amendments, ensuring they could go back to their communities by selling a win.
But suggestions that Australian politics has been radically changed since the election are certainly premature.
“Teals get a win and we get a win” is how one in Labor dubbed it.
What was at play was pure political maths.
Labor knows that if the teals succeed, it all but consigns the Coalition to the opposition benches.
The teal amendments didn’t require the government to add anything it didn’t want to.
It was the Greens who delivered Labor the votes it needed, or at least will when the Senate considers the laws later this year.
It’s why Bandt could be forgiven if he was frustrated that the teals were attracting the credit at their press conference for what was, in fact, a gift his party had given the government.
Yet to just view this in purely political win-loss metrics perhaps misunderstands both the election and broader political movement.
The teal MPs have stuck closely together during the first sitting fortnight.(ABC News: Nick Haggarty)
Taking the ‘fight’ out
Zali Steggall led the teals to their press conference early on Thursday morning.
She’s not the first community-backed independent to arrive in Canberra but there’s no doubt she created the mold the teals have followed.
“Just a brief thank you to Zali Steggall, who worked tirelessly over the last three years for us to be in this position,” Sydneysider Sophie Scamps said at the press conference.
Steggall is proving not just a mentor among the teals but also a bridge between new and old members of the crossbench and with the government.
What unites these independents is they’re political newbies, leaders in their former lives, now setting their sights on doing politics differently.
Anne Aly happily entertained Lisa Chesters’ son Charlie during the climate change debate.(ABC News: Nick Haggarty )
You only had to hear Kylea Tink to get a sense that conventional political thinking is the last thing on her mind.
After a journalist quoted the Greens saying the “fight” was just beginning to force the government to be more ambitious, she argued that it was the wrong approach.
Tink said it should be the “planning” that starts now and that politicians across the political aisle needed to work together, rather than fight.
She also was quick to “reframe” a question being put to the crossbenchers.
“The comment you just made was that the government doesn’t need my vote as a crossbencher to get this legislation through,” Tink said.
“That may be the case but any government that seeks to lead the nation needs to take its people with it.
“What we’ve seen here is a government that recognizes that just because you don’t sit on a side on the government’s side doesn’t mean that your community’s voice doesn’t matter.
“If I wasn’t an independent, it wouldn’t have been heard.”
Adam Bandt’s Greens delivered the government the votes it needed to legislate an emissions reduction target.(ABC News: Matt Roberts)
‘The Liberals have disenfranchised people’
After the first sitting fortnight, some in the building have wondered if the teals are yet to regret entering politics.
At least a couple of moments from the week might have given them moments of doubt about their new career.
As bells rang for politicians to vote on the climate bills, Tink and Scamps were regularly spotted darting out of the chamber, returning minutes later before the bells stopped ringing.
Their distraction, it transpired, were pieces of toast being consumed outside the chamber. Finding time to eat in Canberra is no longer something you can do on a whim.
Victorian Monique Ryan, too, might have had pangs of doubt after one of her staff pulled down her mask during that press conference and pushed her fingers up the sides of her mouth, signaling for her boss to smile.
Being told to smile was arguably something she’d have never heard as she ran the neurology department of the Royal Children’s Hospital.
She didn’t need to be told to smile as she found her way to the microphone and took aim at the Liberals who refused to negotiate with the government over the emissions target.
“This is just the end of the beginning in our action on climate change,” Ryan said.
“To make progress, to be at the table you have to have a voice at the table and in taking themselves out of the discussion, the Liberals have disenfranchised the people in the electorates they represent.”
Tasmanian Liberal Bridget Archer likely agrees.
She again proved she’s willing to do what so often men in her party appear unable to follow through on — saying they’ll cross the floor on an issue and actually doing it.
Bridget Archer was the only Coalition MP to vote for the government’s climate bill.(ABC News: Nick Haggarty )
But it’s far from perfect
The teals arrived in Canberra after their communities turfed out the Liberals who had long dominated the electorates they now hold.
They’ve been pleasantly surprised at the spirit of collaboration that they’ve found in Labor — at least for now.
But no-one is saying parliament is anywhere near perfect.
“We’re still seeing in Question Time old-style politics play out,” Steggall says.
“I don’t think it impresses many of us and it certainly doesn’t impress the Australian public.”
IS KCRA 3 NEWS AT 6:00 PM BRITTANY: NEW TONIGHT, WE HAVE LEARNED THE THIRD VICTIM IN A DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKE IN WASHINGTON, DC WAS A FOLSOM NATIVE. CITY NATIONAL BANK SAYS IT WAS THE EMPLOYER OF 29-YEAR-OLD BROOKS LAMBERTSON. THIS IS HIM ON YOUR SCREEN. WE HAVE CONFIRMED WITH HIS FAMILY THAT LAMBERTSON WENT TO VISTA DEL LAG GEORGE SPRINGER HIGH SCHOOL IN FOLSO
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One of the three people who died in a Washington, DC, lighting strike this week has been identified by family as Northern California native Brooks Lambertson. The 29-year-old from Folsom died from his injuries on Friday afternoon, a day after the lightning struck several people at Lafayette Park, which sits directly across the street from the White House, Vito Maggiolo, a spokesperson for DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services, said in a news conference Thursday evening. Couple James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, both of Janesville, Wisconsin, died on Thursday. Two other people were injured. | READ MORE | 3 dead, 2 in critical condition after lightning strike near the White HouseBrooks grew up in Folsom and graduated from Vista del Lago High School, his family confirmed to KCRA 3 on Saturday. He was the vice president of City National Bank in Los Angeles, according to a release from the bank. He had been in Washington, DC, for a business trip.”Brooks was an incredible young man who will be remembered for his generosity, kindness and unwavering positivity,” City National Bank said. “His sudden loss from him is devastating for all who knew him, and his family, friends and colleagues from him appreciate the thoughts and prayers that have poured in from around the country.” Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.
One of the three people who died in a Washington, DC, lighting strike this week has been identified by family as Northern California native Brooks Lambertson.
The 29-year-old from Folsom died from his injuries on Friday afternoon, a day after the lightning struck several people at Lafayette Park, which sits directly across the street from the White House, Vito Maggiolo, a spokesperson for DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services, said in a news conference Thursday evening. Couple James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, both of Janesville, Wisconsin, died on Thursday. Two other people were injured.
| READ MORE | 3 dead, 2 in critical condition after lightning strike near the White House
Brooks grew up in Folsom and graduated from Vista del Lago High School, his family confirmed to KCRA 3 on Saturday.
He was the vice president of City National Bank in Los Angeles, according to a release from the bank. He had been in Washington, DC, for a business trip.
“Brooks was an incredible young man who will be remembered for his generosity, kindness and unwavering positivity,” City National Bank said. “His sudden loss of him is devastating for all who knew him, and his family, friends and colleagues appreciate the thoughts and prayers that have poured in from around the country.”
The 29-year-old was also a graduate of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.
Due to some strict Evo rules, The Iron Giant, LeBron James, and a new MultiVersus stage are banned from this year’s professional gaming tournament.
One of the world’s largest professional gaming tournaments, Evolution 2022 (aka Evolution Championship Series), welcomes Warner Bros. MultiVersus, but not without banning two popular characters and a fan-favorite stage. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and leadership shift, the popular annual fighting game tournament has been postponed and has seen some changes over the last couple of years. However, after Sony Interactive Entertainment officially purchased the esports event early last year, talented gamers worldwide are ready to battle in fighting game contests.
Professional gamers worldwide train countless hours with competitive fighting games in the hopes of winning some serious money at the annual Evo tournaments. Games featured at Evo 2022 like dragon ball fighter z, Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate, Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition, and others require players to pay a small fee that goes into a prize pool. This allows high-performing players to win a more significant percentage of the pot. Previous winners have earned up to thirty thousand dollars in prize money. However, this year’s newest fighting game, MultiVersusmade a monumental entrance at this year’s tournament with a $100,000 prize pool, but not without banning some of the game’s newest content.
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Official Evo 2022 rules for MultiVersus are banning any characters or maps released for the game after its open beta release, which includes The Iron Giant, LeBron James, and the newest Rick and Morty-themed Cromulons stage. As reported by game rantthe news undoubtedly disappoints talented players who are fans of the most recent MultiVersus content. The two characters and new stage will presumably be playable at next year’s tournament. Still, any new characters or levels released close to an Evo event are not allowed. This rule is in place so players and developers can iron out any performance or unbalanced issues with new content before thousands of dollars worth of prize money is at stake.
LeBron James And Iron Giant’s Multiversus Future
Since MultiVersus launched its open beta on July 19th, players are discovering which characters from the game’s current roster of 17 fighters require adjustments. Professional esport tournaments have made a habit of banning over-powered characters. New content, including the new playable fighter Morty from Adult Swim’s hit animated series Rick and Mortywas recently delayed so MultiVersus‘ developers could work on balancing the game and improving the game’s questionable hitboxes.
With gaming becoming a much more mainstream hobby every year, professional esport events will continue to grow in both popularity and in how much players will be able to earn. The famous multiplayer fighter Super Smash Bros Ultimate was surprisingly absent from Evo 2022, and MultiVersus seems determined to take its spot. If developers can provide new and exciting content for players and keep the game balanced, MultiVersus might be able to earn a long-term place in subsequent fighting game tournaments.
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MultiVersus is available on PlayStation 4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows PC.
Source: GameRant
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Kyle Chalmers is collected by his mum as he returns to Australia after threatening to quit swimming during the Commonwealth Games over ‘love triangle’ drama with Cody Simpson and Emma McKeon
Kyle Chalmers all smiles as he arrives at Adelaide Airport on Saturday
The swimmer won three golds and a silver at the Commonwealth Games
Chalmers was greeted by his mother, sharing a laugh as they walked
Chalmers considered leaving the sport over ‘love triangle’ claims at Games
By Ben Talintyre For Daily Mail Australia
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Champion swimmer Kyle Chalmers was all smiles arriving home from a successful Commonwealth Games, looking to put the ‘love triangle’ drama that almost derailed his campaign in the rear-vision mirror.
Chalmers was met by his mother at Adelaide airport and appeared in good spirits.
He donned a black hoodie with a pair of Australian swim team tracksuit pants.
The Commonwealth Games gold medalist beamed at waiting media as he wheeled his luggage through the airport alongside his mother.
Aussie swimmer Kyle Chalmers (right) was all smiles arriving home from a successful Commonwealth Games stint, looking to put his ‘love triangle’ drama in the rear vision mirror
Chalmers was met by his mother at Adelaide airport as he arrived home in good spirits after winning three golds and one silver at the Commonwealth Games
Chalmers had earlier threatened to quit the sport after the drama surrounding coverage of his former girlfriend Emma McKeon and her current beau Cody Simpson
Chalmers left Birmingham with three gold medals and one silver.
During the game he said he was considering quitting the sport after the drama surrounding the reported swimming ‘love triangle’ between himself, former girlfriend Emma McKeon and her new beau Cody Simpson.
Cody Simpson and Emma McKeon have been fan favorites at the Commonwealth Games
The drama made headlines when the 4×100 mixed relay team won gold on the opening night but the celebrations appeared tinged by awkwardness as McKeon and Chalmers did not shake hands after securing victory.
Speaking at a press conference in Birmingham, Chalmers threatened to quit swimming altogether if ‘false news’ continued to circulate that he was in a feud with McKeon and Simpson.
After taking gold in the 100m freestyle on Tuesday, Chalmers put his fingers to his lips in a gesture that suggested he was silencing his critics after taking gold.
He had also said there were moments he had felt like he ‘could not continue on’ and said he hoped his latest win was ‘a learning point for everybody’ – including the media.
Kyle Chalmers has found himself in the headlines more often than not this Commonwealth Games, including a ‘shush’ to the media after winning gold in the 100m freestyle
Chalmers also rubbished reports of a rift in the team, saying after his last race at the Games he was ‘relieved’ it was now over.
‘There’s so many things to be grateful for: being part of the team, it’s special,’ he told Channel 7 after swimming the anchor leg for Australia in their 4x100m mixed medley.
‘And we are all so close and it’s been a very, very successful week in the pool for us and, hopefully, we’re able to celebrate a little bit tonight as a team and, obviously, we all depart tomorrow.’
