JACKPOT WINNER MAY NOT HAVE COME OUT OF IOWA, BUT SOME IOWANS DID WIN BIG FOLLOWING THE DRAWING ON FRIDAY. FIVE TICKETS SOLD IN THE STATE WERE JUST ONE NUMBER AWAY FROM A PIECE OF THE JACKPOT. FOUR HAD WINNING PRIZES OF $10,000. ONE LUCKY WINNER GOT A $2 MILLION PRIZE. THAT TICKET WAS PURCHASED AT THE BIG TEN MART IN BETTENDORF. IN IOWA, NEARLY 99,000 CASH PRIZES IN TOTA
Lottery officials say 5 Iowa tickets were a number off of Mega Millions jackpot
Updated: 6:07 PM CDT Jul 31, 2022
Multiple Mega Millions tickets in Iowa were tantalizingly close to a gigantic payout, according to lottery officials. Five tickets were one number away from joining a ticket in Illinois to split the $1.337 billion jackpot, based on statistics provided by the Iowa Lottery. The Illinois ticket was the sole one to match all five white numbers and the Mega Ball in Friday’s drawing. A ticket sold at a Big 10 Mart in Bettendorf matched all five white balls, which is worth $1 million. That player chose the optional Megaplier add-on, which multiplied that prize to a $2 million win. Four other tickets matched four white balls and the Mega Ball, a combination worth $10,000. One was sold at a Casey’s in Manchester, located at 1305 W. Commercial Street. The others were sold in Newton, Storm Lake, and Mount Pleasant. Lottery officials said that Iowans purchased over $5.6 million worth of tickets for Friday’s drawing.
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Multiple Mega Millions tickets in Iowa were tantalizingly close to a gigantic payout, according to lottery officials.
Five tickets were one number away from joining a ticket in Illinois to split the $1.337 billion jackpot, based on statistics provided by the Iowa Lottery. The Illinois ticket was the sole one to match all five white numbers and the Mega Ball in Friday’s drawing.
A ticket sold at a Big 10 Mart in Bettendorf matched all five white balls, which is worth $1 million. That player chose the optional Megaplier add-on, which multiplied that prize to a $2 million win.
Four other tickets matched four white balls and the Mega Ball, a combination worth $10,000. One was sold at a Casey’s in Manchester, located at 1305 W. Commercial Street. The others were sold in Newton, Storm Lake, and Mount Pleasant.
Lottery officials said that Iowans purchased over $5.6 million worth of tickets for Friday’s drawing.
Tony Beaumont’s story is not rags to riches but rather riches to (cleaning) rags.
As a high-flying corporate executive he had all the trappings of success including a $200,000 salary, shares in oil giant BP, a company car and 45 staff under him but he gave it all away to scrub floors.
He now owns Jim’s Cleaning Bayview in Sydney’s northern suburbs and says despite taking a ‘financial hit’ he is much happier.
Tony Beaumont was a high-flying corporate executive with oil giant BP but he found the job had taken over his life in a way he didn’t like
The BP role required him to spend time in Melbourne each month away from his family, leaving behind his wife and two young children in Sydney.
‘My peers were all career-focused, and I had no desire to go to Melbourne ongoing – the corporate culture, drinking until midnight, couldn’t speak to my wife and kids,’ Mr Beaumont told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Mr Beaumont was getting 150 emails a day and was expected to be ‘on’ 24/7.
‘I thought “bugger it”. I had to make a change,’ he said.
As a teenager he cleaned McDonald’s restaurants and thought he might try getting behind a mop again.
‘I wanted to be my own boss,’ Mr Beaumont said.
Mr Beaumont has swapped his corporate suit for casual cleaning attire as the owner of Jim’s Cleaning Bayview in Sydney’s northern suburbs
‘I didn’t want to manage others anymore. I had had 10 direct and thirty-five indirect people reporting to me. I didn’t want any staff that I had to worry about.’
It seems he has found his niche.
‘I love cleaning as I love to see the happy faces of my clients when they come back to their property and find it perfectly cleaned, freshened up and smelling great!’ he writes on his business website about him.
Mr Beaumont admits he has taken a ‘financial hit’ but says money isn’t everything.
‘I would much rather have a happy family life and watch my kids grow up,’ Mr Beaumont said.
The so-called ‘great resignation’ has been seen many Aussies take advantage of worker shortages to decide on a career change.
Mr Beaumont says the job swap was important to him to spend more time with his young family
With the unemployment rate at four per cent, which is the lowest it has been since 1974, many workers have taken the chance to quit jobs they weren’t happy with.
Nearly 10 per cent of the workforce, 1.3 million people, swapped jobs in the year up until February 2022, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
This was the highest rate of job change in over a decade.
The professional, scientific and technical services areas were particularly notable for an increase in job mobility.
Nearly 40 per cent of managers who left their jobs went into another field, while in sales it was more than 50 per cent of job hoppers who tried something new.
CommSec chief economist Craig James said earlier this year that low unemployment was gave people the opportunity to leave unsatisfactory roles.
‘The great job market shuffle is underway,’ he said.
‘For the first time there are more people that say they are unemployed because they left their lost job rather than those that lost jobs through redundancy, business failure or poor performance.’
Mr Beaumont said even though taking over a cleaning franchise meant he took a ‘financial hit’ it was worth it
Job availability and mobility may change with rising interest rates expected to slow the economy and borders open once more to let in foreign workers.
With higher unemployment and reduced consumer spending, people may be less willing to leave jobs or take chances on setting up their own businesses.
For Mr Beaumont, however, he says he would make the swap again ‘without a shadow of a doubt’.
Ben Macintyre’s Operation Mincemeat is an astonishing true story which reads like a gripping spy thriller, and to coincide with the DVD and Blu-ray release of the film adaptation starring Colin Firth, we’re teaming up with Universal Pictures Australia to give away a copy of the paperback novel to five lucky readers.
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“We bought first and then sold, which becomes a bit nerve-wracking in a falling market, but it worked out alright,” he said. “It’s really nice to hand over our home to another family with kids.”
Four of the five registered bidders competed for the home, but needed some encouragement to start the bidding. Credit:Peter Rae
Sales agent William Pereira, of Adrian William, had been expecting seven buyers, but two dropped out at the last minute, deciding to watch the auction from the sidelines.
Pereira said news about rising interest rates and cooling prices had made buyers a bit more cautious in their approach, but noted there was still good buyer demand.
White expected it would be his strongest auction of the day, with only one to two bidders expected at the three other auctions he was calling on Saturday.
“It’s really nice to have strong bidding… that’s a rarity at the moment,” he said.
While rising interest rates were putting downward pressure on prices, as they were affecting buyers’ borrowing power, he felt the pullback in buyer confidence was having a larger effect.
“Buyers move in flocks, so the fact that everybody knows the market is going down, and the fact that they’re anticipating it is going to go down further, is making everybody far less confident… it’s driven by fear.”
In Wahroonga, a six-bedroom house with a tennis court sold for $13.03 million, setting a new suburb record and trading for more than $2 million above the reserve price.
Eight buyers registered to bid on 27 Braeside Street, which had a price guide of $10 million.
The bidding opened at $9 million, and climbed in six-figure increments, with three of the parties making offers. An expat family returning from Hong Kong won.
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Records show the 2484-square-meter block last traded for $4,045,000 in 2017, when it was purchased by anesthetist David Woods and Alexandra Woods. The pair rebuilt on the block in 2020.
Selling agents Tim Fraser of Di Jones and Adam McKay of Ray White Upper North Shore said the result was well above their expectations.
McKay said many properties at that price level sold before auction, due to fear that there would not be enough competition.
“We knew we had the interest there, so wanted to have the auction. To get eight registered bidders on a property with a guide of $10 million shows … there’s a lot of depth in the market for buyers at that price level,” McKay said.
Fraser added that buyers of high-end homes had not been as affected by rising interest rates as other purchasers, and many had built up a lot of equity in their existing homes throughout the property boom.
Down south, a four-bedroom house at Taren Point sold for $1.85 million, well above the $1.35 million the home last traded for less than two years ago before an extensive renovation.
Of the six buyers who registered to bid on 34 Curtis Avenue, three made offers, with bidding kicking off at $1.6 million and initially increasing in $25,000 jumps.
Bidding stalled at $1.83 million, the highest bidder then increased their offer to the $1.85 million reserve price, following negotiations on the auction floor.
The 645-square-meter block sold through Trent Tarbey, of McGrath Sans Souci, to an upsizing family from Dolls Point. The sellers were also upsizing, to a home just down the road.
In Alexandria, a two-bedroom townhouse at 14/18-20 Newton Street sold for $1.14 million through Brad Gillespie of The Agency Eastern Suburbs.
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First home buyers, upsizers and investors competed for the keys. Bidding opened at $900,000, and quickly passed the $950,000 price guide, with four of the seven registered buyers making offers. A northern beaches investor outbid locals to buy the 139-square-meter block.
The result was $90,000 above the reserve price, and well above the $640,000 the property last sold for in 2013.
The NRL Match Review Committee has come under fire for some glaring inconsistencies regarding foul play in a confounding weekend of rugby league in Round 20.
Storm enforcer Nelson Asofa-Solomona escaped sanction for an elbow to the face of Warriors hooker Wayde Egan, while teammate Josh King went unpunished for a potential eye-gouge.
Meanwhile, Titans hooker Aaron Booth escaped sanction for a cannonball tackle on Raiders forward Joe Tapine, while Jared Waerea-Hargreaves got away with a fine for a similar action to Asofa-Solomona’s, on Manly rookie Zac Fulton.
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And Broncos lock Patrick Carrigan was neither sin-binned or sent off for a hip drop tackle that saw him referred directly to the Judiciary and has him facing a lengthy ban.
Foxsports.com.au breaks down the five incidents to point out the stunning inconsistency from the MRC.
NELSON ASOFA-SOLOMONA
Asofa-Solomona was placed on report for an elbow/forearm on Warriors hooker Wayde Egan, but was not charged by the match review committee.
The incident in the fourth minute of the Storm’s win over the Warriors saw the Asofa-Solomona come down hard on top of Egan’s jaw with his forearm and elbow.
The Warriors rake had to leave the field and there were fears such an action had the potential to result in a broken jaw.
Andrew Johns smoked at the MRC for failing to take action against Asofa-Solomona for an incident that he believed could have resulted in an on-field send-off.
“It’s laughable,” Johns said.
“I back the players all the time, but for me that’s a four-week suspension.
“Nothing for that, or even fine? That’s close to a send-off. I can’t believe it.”
Ryan Girdler accused the MRC of not taking the rules seriously in a stinging rebuke of the Asofa-Solomona decision.
“It was very avoidable as opposed to running the football rather than when you are the defender,” Girdler said on Triple M.
“We spoke about Dale Finucane and the onus needs to be on the defender and there needs to be a duty of care to the player with the ball, especially now we see so many people in tackles and technique and holding and so forth.
“That needs to be taken seriously by the players.
“But if you want to take it seriously then the match review committee need to take it seriously as well.
“Letting Nelson get off with that sends a sign out there to the players, that sort of behavior is OK and it’s not.”
It begs the question, would the Storm star, who has formed, have been suspended or even sent off had he broken Egan’s jaw?
Any player that now finds himself in a similar tackle will be bringing up this Asofa-Solomona incident as their main defense in the future and a dangerous precedent has now been set.
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Nelson Asofa-Soloma escaped sanction for an elbow on Wayde Egan.Source: Supplied
JOSH KING
Storm lock Josh King escaped sanction for a potential eye-gouge on Warriors forward Jazz Tevaga, despite being placed on report and penalized.
In fairness to King the action may have been accidental, but it came just a week after Bulldogs enforcer Corey Waddell copped a five week suspension for coming into contact with the eyes of Titans skipper Tino Fa’asuamaleaui.
In Waddell’s case there was no genuine proof of a gouging action, but he copped a monster ban for coming into contact with the eyes of an opponent.
Gorden Tallis and Greg Alexander believed that King would be in trouble, given the harsh reaction to the Waddell incident, even if it was incidental contact.
“I think it is minimal contact, but you can’t make contact with the eyes,” Tallis said.
“I don’t like it. Don’t go near the eyes.”
“Corey Waddell got five weeks for not even gouging someone,” Alexander added.
“In slow motion it doesn’t look good. His hand went over the top of the face and got somewhere in the eye vicinity so he could be in trouble.
King could have been given the opportunity to protest his innocence at the judiciary and may well have proven it, but the decision not to charge him a week after giving Waddell five weeks on the sidelines smacks of inconsistency.
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AARON BOOTH
Titans hooker Aaron Booth went unpunished by the MRC for a potential cannonball tackle on Raiders forward Joe Tapine.
The incident in the 32nd minute of the Titans 36-24 loss to the Raiders saw two Gold Coast players tackling Tapine before Booth came in late down around his legs from behind in a cannonball style tackle.
Tapine took issue with the tackle and the pair got into a scuffle, which resulted in the Raiders star being sent to the sin bin.
On his way to the sin bin Tapine questioned the tackle to the referee but Ben Cummins said the tackle was cleared.
The cannonball tackle is up there with the hip drop as one of the most dangerous tackles on a rugby league field for its ability to cause serious injury.
“Joe Tapine must have felt what he thought was a cannonball as Aaron Booth comes in right at the knees,” Matt Russell said.
Aaron Booth tackles Joe Tapine.Source: FOX SPORTS
“You have got to be above the knees. Quads or higher.”
While Booth may have initially hit Tapine on the hamstrings, the speed and force at which he came into the tackle from behind as the third man in, had the potential to cause Tapine a serious injury, which is why he was so angry.
Gorden Tallis told Triple M that he didn’t think Patrick Carrigan’s tackle “was as bad as some that I’ve seen this year” and brought up the Booth incident.
“So Aaron Booth, I have spears into the back (of Joe Tapine). Which one is worse in your eyes?,” he asked.
“I can’t believe he didn’t get reported,” Ben Dobbin said.
“It wasn’t even a penalty,” James Hooper added.
“Probably the one from the Titans game, it seemed to have more intent in the tackle,” James Graham added.
If the MRC are serious about stamping it out of the game, Booth should have at least been charged and given the opportunity to defend himself at the judiciary.
Failing to charge these incidents gives the players no deterrent to stop employing the cannonball tackle if they think they can get away with it on a technicality.
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PATRICK CARRIGAN
Broncos lock Patrick Carrigan is facing a lengthy suspension for his hip-drop tackle on Jackson Hastings after being referred directly to the judiciary.
Carrigan deserves to be suspended for the ugly tackle that broke Hastings’ leg and ruled him out for the season.
However, if the incident was deemed serious enough to refer Carrigan straight to the judiciary, why was he not sin-binned or sent off?
Nathan Cleary coped with a five week suspension after being sent off for an ugly lifting tackle on Dylan Brown.
If Carrigan is looking at a similar ban, the Tigers should have got the on-field advantage of having the Broncos reduced to 12 men for 10 minutes at least.
James Hooper believes Carrigan will miss the remainder of the regular season with a five week ban.
Patrick Carrigan’s hip-drop tackle.Source: Supplied
“In all likelihood the fact he’s been referred… I think Pat Carrigan is rubbed out for the rest of the season and he’s back for September,” Hooper said.
If Carrigan cops a five game ban, it is confounding how he wasn’t sent off for the tackle or at the very least sin-binned.
On the other hand Gorden Tallis questioned why Carrigan is potentially meeting the same fate as Waddell who is out for five weeks due to an eye-gouge.
“If you tell me that tackle is as bad as an eye gouge… if someone has their fingers around your eyes I’d bite their fingers off,” Tallis said.
It raised the question of Hastings’ injury playing a part in the punishment, which comes back to Asofa-Solomona potentially facing a ban had he broken Egan’s jaw.
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JARED WAEREA-HAGREAVES
The Roosters enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves escaped with a fine for an early guilty plea after being charged by the match review committee for a similar incident to Asofa-Solomona’s.
The Roosters star was penalized and placed on report for an elbow to the face of Manly rookie Zac Fulton while he was on the ground.
Waerea-Hargreaves’ punishment brings up two questions. Why was he not banned because a small fine is not a deterrent for these actions?
Jared Waerea-Hargreaves escaped with a fine.Source: Getty Images
And given Asofa-Solomona’s incident is widely considered to be much worse than the Roosters star’s actions, why wasn’t the Storm forward charged by the MRC?
Referee Grant Atkins labeled Waerea-Hargreaves actions unacceptable.
“Jared can’t do what he did, that is unacceptable, that is why it is against you,” Atkins said.
But how can an unacceptable action on a rugby league field receive only a small $3000 fine.
Coupled with the Asofa-Soloma incident, a small fine for Waerea-Hargreaves and no punishment at all for the Storm forward offers no deterrent whatsoever for players who employ these grubby tactics.
A detector dog at Darwin Airport has sniffed out a stowaway McDonald’s breakfast in the backpack of an Aussie traveler flying home from Bali – leaving him with a $2664 fine.
The penalty for the undeclared meat and dairy products is part of the active biosecurity efforts being made to stop foot and mouth disease (FMD) from entering the country.
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“Two egg and beef sausage McMuffins from McDonald’s in Bali and a ham croissant” were the offending menu items that caught the attention of biosecurity sniffer dog Zinta, Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister Murray Watt told 7NEWS.com.au in a statement.
Stopping the food groups from entering the country is just one of several measures the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry is cracking down on to mitigate the biosecurity threat.
“Detector dog Zinta responded to a passenger’s backpack and, after further inspection, it was found they were carrying a variety of risk items,” Watt said.
“This will be the most expensive Maccas meal this passenger ever has.
“This fine is twice the cost of an airfare to Bali, but I have no sympathy for people who choose to disobey Australia’s strict biosecurity measures, and recent detections show you will be caught.”
McMuffins from a Bali McDonald’s cost one Australian traveler more than twice the price of his flight after he failed to declare the potential biosecurity threat. Credit: Supplied
He was issued a “12-unit infringement notice for failing to declare potential high biosecurity risk items and providing a false and misleading document”.
The undeclared food was inspected for FMD and destroyed.
“Biosecurity is no joke—it helps protect jobs, our farms, food and supports the economy. Passengers who choose to travel need to make sure they are fulfilling the conditions to enter Australia, by following all biosecurity measures,” Watt said.
Indonesian authorities confirmed on July 5 that there had been an FMD outbreak in livestock, and as Australia is FMD-free, authorities are being extra vigilant at the border.
The disease “can survive in meat and dairy products even if they are frozen, chilled or freeze-dried,” the department said.
Zinta the biosecurity detector dog has been assigned the job of tracking down potential carriers of foot and mouth disease before they enter the country. Credit: Supplied
The infringement notice cost more than the man’s flights, but that is the standard cost of failing to declare biosecurity risks at the border.
Travelers who are entering Australia on temporary visas could also risk them being cancelled, ensuring they cannot enter the country.
“Travellers arriving from Indonesia will be under much stricter biosecurity scrutiny due to the presence of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Indonesia, including at the popular tourist destination Bali,” the department said in a statement.
The Albanese government last month announced a $14 million biosecurity package.
It has also rolled out biosecurity dogs at Darwin and Cairns airports, as well as sanitation and on-ground support at Australian and international airports.
CNN host Fareed Zakaria on Sunday slammed Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for what he called a “disgusting” and “scandalous” speech last week criticizing foreign leaders who disagreed with his ruling on Roe V. Wade.
Zakaria told Jim Acosta on CNN that Supreme Court justices are supposed to, at the very least, conduct themselves in a way that is above politics, given they are unelected members with life tenure who can decide crucial decisions shaping the lives of millions of Americans.
“The reason they have that legitimacy is, to put it very simply, that they behave themselves, that they behave in accordance with the kind of dignity and majesty of the court,” said Zakaria, who hosts CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”
“What Alito did, behaving like a cheap commentator, and not a particularly good one at that, was frankly disgusting. I mean I thought it was the most undignified performance by a Supreme Court justice that I have seen in my lifetime,” he said. “I don’t think any of his predecessors would have done it. I think it’s scandalous.”
Zakaria added that he did not expect formal punishment, but added: “If John Roberts wants to fulfill his role as chief justice, I think he should call Justice Alito in and try to explain to him why it damages not just Alito — who looks like an idiot — but it damages the court.”
During a speech at Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Summit in Rome, Alito mocked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prince Harry. He also mentioned Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron.
All four leaders had sharply criticized the Supreme Court for overturning the nearly 50-year constitutional right to abortion, which Alito seemed to find amusing.
“I’ve had a few second thoughts over the last few weeks since I had the honor this term of writing I think the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders who felt perfectly fine commenting on American law,” Alito said during his speech.
The Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe V. Wade has paved the way for many GOP-led states to ban or severely restrict abortion access across the country, despite around two-thirds of Americans supporting the right to an abortion in some cases.
Trust in the Supreme Court has never been lower, according to polling earlier this month, which found just a quarter of Americans hold confidence in the high court.
“Why are you sending me somebody else’s account statement and betting activity and who received mine??” asked one pointer on Twitter.
”Just got sent link to someone else’s statement too,” replied another.
“Same thing happened to me, extremely worrying,” quipped a third.
And what of Sportsbet’s response (the company was tagged in tweets from early July)? “Still radio silence from them,” lamented one account.
Sportsbet notified the NT Racing Commission of the snafu in earlier in July.
We hear Sportsbet isn’t terribly worried, given the statements are identifiable only by a personal betting number (without names and addresses). Which is handy, as draft legislation will increase penalties available to the privacy regulator to a maximum of $10 million.
That’d be a much steeper penalty than the ones Sportsbet received from Liquor & Gaming NSW last year for spamming customers with enticements when customers had opted out of such material (a paltry $135,000 fine) or the separate $22,000 penalty earlier that year for other advertising breaches. (The Australian Communications and Media Authority separately scored a $3.7 million penalty against Sportsbet this year for spamming customers).
But this is Australia, where you can launder money for international criminals, lie to gaming authorities, short-change the tax man, provide VIP service to underworld criminals, and gerrymander development restrictions, and the casino regulators will let you get away with it until the media reports it.
Sportsbet is currently advertising for a new head of compliance, after some recent turbulence in its legal and external affairs team.
This includes the loss of their head of corporate affairs, head of policy, head of legal, senior counsel, head of compliance, and head of NT government relations (where the company’s license is domiciled).
The good news is the growth team is getting a new compliance boss who will report to the chief growth officer, expanding the risk employees in that team. Just in time.
Perhaps that’s a good thing, given Sportsbet’s current chief legal officer Julie Ryan has had a mixed history with delivering growth.
Prior to her current gig, Ryan was Endeavour’s head of external affairs, where she was involved “late in the process” to secure the planned Dan Murphy’s in Darwin, according to the independent review of the proposal by Danny Gilbert.
That review found the company failed to engage sufficiently with Aboriginal groups concerned the mooted piss-up factory would supercharge already high rates of alcohol-fueled misery in the area, and thus the proposal was dumped in 2021.
Nevertheless, as Sportsbet’s new head of compliance, you’ll require the passion to deliver on the company’s “purpose… to build an iconic Aussie brand that brings excitement to life for generations to come”. Nothing more exciting than receiving a list of someone else’s failed bets.
Chinese domestic chip manufacturer, Zhaoxin, enters the world of APUs with its first product, CPU KX-6000 Goffering up to 1.5 TFLOPs of GPU horsepower.
Domestic Chinese Chip Maker, Zhaoxin, Equips the KX-6000G CPU with 1.5 TFLOPs Integrated GPU and Speed of NVIDIA’s Decade-Old GT 630
To make matters clear, Zhaoxin is a Chinese chip maker that offers both CPU and GPU IPs based on their own architectures. The manufacturer’s next-generation KX-6000 CPU lineup will replace the KX-5000 and ZX-200 CPUs that were on the market from 2017-2018. The latest chipset is expected to include 4 cores, 8 threads, speeds up to 3.0GHz, support for DDR4 DRAM, PCIe 3.0 I/O, and a native 16nm architecture.
Last month, we talked about how to use Zhaoxin’s KH-4000 series CPUs It managed to deliver single-core performance close to that of AMD’s first-generation Ryzen CPUs based on Zen architecture. Compared to the KX series that mainly targets the domestic consumer segment, the KH series mainly targets the server segment and offers up to 16 cores and 16 threads. It is also based on a 16nm process node although the architecture is not as updated as the KX-6000G CPUs.
So, going back to the Zhaoxin KX-6000G CPUs which we may also refer to as APUs since they use the same Zhaoxin-made Zhaoxin C1080 GPU found in Glenfly Arise-GT-10C0 dGPU which was launched in the Chinese domestic market just a few days ago Now the same discrete chip is packaged inside the Zhaoxin KX-6000G CPUs. The naming scheme and chip design look a lot like AMD’s Ryzen Desktop APUs which also use a separate GPU architecture and have a “G” attached to them.
According to Zhaoxin, a CPU has 8 cores and 16 threads made possible by merging two blocks on the same package. The standard version of the KX-6000 CPUs only comes with the integrated C-960 GPU that provides support for VGA, HDMI, and DP at resolutions up to 4K. The new integrated GPU not only provides increased performance, but also better graphics capabilities.
Zhaoxin’s KX-6000G CPU tested with integrated GT10C0 GPU in 3DMark 11. (Image credits: MyDrivers)
For starters, in 3DMark 11, the Zhaoxin integrated GPU scores around 1,000 points which is over 3x more than the older GPU. It comes with an all-new graphics and image processing engine that is compatible with Galaxy Kirin KOS, Tongxin Software UOS, Windows, and many other mainstream Chinese operating systems. The chip also provides full compliance with DirectX 11, Open GL 4.5 and OpenGL 1.2 APIs while outputting a native 4K screen. While it’s a huge improvement over its predecessor, the integrated chip is still only on par with the NVIDIA GT 630 graphics card in the 3DMark 11 (Performance) benchmark that scores similarly. (Result from the GT 630 review from Vmodtech):
The Zhaoxin KX-6000G CPU was also tested in GLMark 2 where it scored 3116 points, and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 scored 10516 points in the same benchmark. For the CPU, the Zhaxoin chip registers over 15,000 MIPS in multi-threaded decompression which makes it faster than the AMD Ryzen 3 1300X and close to the Intel Core i5-7500. We used the following degrees of TechSpot Review To make a comparative graph:
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With that said, Chinese GPU makers have been doing their best to reach parity with AMD and NVIDIA GPUs since 2016. Recently, Jing Jiaoui And the inosilicon It sparked their plans to deliver GTX 1080 and Vega class performance in the coming years. Zhaoxin is also Runs on a range of x86 processors that could rival AMD’s first-generation Ryzen processors while Loongson targets Zen 3 performance with upcoming CPUs by 2023.
Meghan Markle has made headlines recently for her alleged acts of “bullying”, and in the process has copped a substantial amount of vitriol.
But now the tables have been turned in a Channel 9 60 minutes segment that dug deep into the latest royal scandal involving the claims that the Duchess of Sussex intimidated and belittled her staffers.
When the allegations first emerged, Buckingham Palace announced it was conducting an inquiry, but it has since said it won’t release the findings. It’s a curious move that’s left many puzzled. What did they discover, that they don’t want us to know about?
And could it be that the facts actually reveal instead of being the bully, Meghan is the one who’s been bullied?
In the segment, 60 minutess reporter Tom Steinfort asked British television host Trisha Goddard, a rare and staunch supporter of the Duchess of Sussex: “Who do you think is the victim of bullying?”
“Meghan Markle,” replied Trisha Goddard, who was also a former Australian TV star featuring on such shows as Play School.
“They can’t go too all out on Prince Harry, so let’s go for the evil scheming woman, that whole thing about women taking men away and driving them somewhere and destroying them. I mean how misogynistic is that?
“I think what’s she done wrong is not to be of the correct stock. I think what she’s done wrong is to be an American, to be an outsider… also she she’s a strong woman.
“I’m not saying she’s perfect, but I’m sorry but Prince Andrew doesn’t get as much consistent vitriol.”
Steinfort then asked: “So what do you think is at play here – is it sexism, racism, or a heady combo of both?”
To which Goddard replied: “It’s all those and above. We know through the polling that the Sussex’s poll highest among youngsters, under 25s.
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“It’s the dinosaurs screaming when it comes to an outsider, and a female, and a female of color, then that is something that you are going to come down on because it shouldn’t be allowed,” she said on 60 minutes.
When asked if she noticed a pattern in the kind of people that attack Meghan, Goddard said: “Yeah. White, male, pale and stale”.
“Can we just stop messing around and call this for what it is – it’s bullying.”
She said it’s quite baffling why Prince Harry and Meghan are loved in America, but there’s so much controversy around them from the Brits.
“In the US people really like them they – they can’t understand what’s going on in Britain other than snobbishness, and I’m sure there’s a lot of that going on.
“You can’t blame them if they want to stay in the States can you?”
However, the bullying claims continue to swirl around Markle.
Also featured on the 60 minutes segment was Valentine Low, the royal correspondent for UK newspaper The Times. He said it was Meghan’s explosive Oprah interview that was the tipping point for several palace staffers who decided to reveal their claims of bullying to the world.
“What I was told was that in late 2018, Jason Knauf, who was Harry and Meghan’s communications secretary – so one of their very closest advisers – sent an email to his boss saying that Meghan had been bullying staff,” Mr Low said.
“He said that a couple of members of staff had been driven out by Meghan’s behaviour. and
he was also concerned for how much pressure was being put on their private secretary, their
very closest adviser, an Australian woman called Samantha Cohen.
“Now this was an explosive allegation, but the point is, nothing happened,” he said.
He said the palace simply didn’t know what to do.
“They didn’t know how to cope with such an unusual situation, and they didn’t know how to cope with Meghan.”
