Since its launch in July 2021, Pokemon UNITE has straddled the line of the free-to-play and free-to-start models, offering players multiple ways to unlock content in the game based on if they want to spend money to speed up the process.
On the F2P side of things, UNITE follows most other titles in having multiple different in-game currencies that players need to collect to upgrade items, unlock Pokémon, and more. Unfortunately, the developers also artificially limited how much of certain currency types players can earn in one sitting in a microtransaction-laden marketplace.
This doesn’t affect the harder-to-come-by currency like Aeos, Fashion, and Holowear Tickets, though. Instead, it impacts the more widely available Aeos Coins and Energy earned through playing the game.
Aeos Coins are the most common and heavily used currency in UNITE and can be earned by completing challenges, battle pass missions, and by participating in any of the game’s main modes. In turn, they can also be used to unlock a majority of UNITE’s content, like Unite Licenses that are used to add Pokémon to your usable rotation. But you’re limited to earning 2,100 coins per week.
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This only applies to the Aeos Coins you’d earn by playing matches, not the additional coins you can earn by completing challenges or as rewards. But most players are more concerned that UNITE offers an item to boost coin yield that essentially just maxes that weekly limit out earlier—and it can be purchased using microtransactions.
The other hard limit applies to Aeos Energy, which is awarded to a player after every completed match.
Energy is used to roll for items in the Energy Rewards section, with a weekly limit of 1,400 Energy that can be earned. Before July 2022, this likely would have been fine since all of the Energy Rewards were cosmetic. But now, stat boosting Emblems are included in a separate pool and they actually have repercussions for gameplay.
And, just like with the Aeos Coins, UNITE has a method to earn more by purchasing consumable items in the shop.
TiMi might eventually mess with the amount of each currency that’s limited, but for now, be sure that you’re aware of each limit and use your allotted coins and energy wisely once you have them.
A federal judge in New York City has thrown out a lawsuit that accused Bob Dylan of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl in 1965.
The plaintiff voluntarily dropped the case on Thursday, according to court documents.
Manhattan Federal Judge Katherine Polk Failla officially dismissed the filing “with prejudice,” meaning the case cannot be refiled.
American folk-rock singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performing at BBC TV Centre, London, 1st June 1965. Dylan recorded two 35-minute TV programs for the BBC at the session. (Photo by Val Wilmer/Redferns) (Redferns)
Dylan’s lawyers on Wednesday claimed the plaintiff failed to present court-ordered documents, including text messages and emails.
Dylan’s lawyers said the plaintiff, now a woman aged in her 60s identified in the lawsuit by the initials “JC”, “destroyed evidence directly relevant to the central factual allegations in this litigation”.
Orin Snyder, lead counsel for Dylan, said “this case is over. It is outrageous that it was ever brought in the first place.”
He added that the case was a “lawyer-driven sham” and he is pleased about its dismissal.
The 2021 lawsuit accused Dylan of befriending the plaintiff, “to lower her inhibitions with the object of sexually abusing her, which he did, coupled with the provision of drugs, alcohol and threats of physical violence, leaving her emotionally scarred and psychologically damaged to this day.”
American folk/rock singer and songwriter Bob Dylan smiles during a meeting with the British press, April 28, 1965. (CNN)
The lawsuit alleged the abuse occurred at Dylan’s apartment at the Hotel Chelsea in New York City when the plaintiff was aged 12.
In a statement after the filing last year, a spokesperson for Dylan said “the 56-year-old claim is untrue and will be vigorously defended.”
CNN has reached out to the plaintiff’s lawyers for comment.
Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1940.
He has sold more than 125 million records during his career.
Some of his most famous songs include “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” “Like a Rolling Stone” and “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
In 2008, Dylan won a Pulitzer Prize special citation for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.”
In 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
Bill Russell, the cornerstone of the Boston Celtics dynasty that won eight straight titles and 11 overall during his career, died Sunday. The Hall of Famer was 88.
Russell died “peacefully” with his wife, Jeannine, at his side, a statement posted on social media read. Arrangements for his memorial service will be announced soon, according to the statement.
The statement did not give the cause of death, but Russell was not well enough to present the NBA Finals MVP trophy in June because of a long illness.
“But for all the winning, Bill’s understanding of the struggle is what illuminated his life. From boycotting a 1961 exhibition game to unmask too-long-tolerated discrimination, to leading Mississippi’s first integrated basketball camp in the fuel wake of Medgar [Evers’] assassination, to decades of activism ultimately recognized by his receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom … Bill called out injustice with an unforgiving candor that he intended would disrupt the status quo, and with a powerful example that, though never his humble intention, will forever inspire teamwork, selflessness and thoughtful change,” the statement read.
“Bill’s wife, Jeannine, and his many friends and family thank you for keeping Bill in your prayers. Perhaps you’ll relive one or two of the golden moments he gave us, or recall his trademark laugh as he delighted in explaining the real story behind how those moments unfolded.And we hope each of us can find a new way to act or speak up with Bill’s uncompromising, dignified and always constructive commitment to principle.That would be one last, and lasting, win for our beloved #6. “
Over a 15-year period, beginning with his junior year at the University of San Francisco, Russell had the most remarkable career of any player in the history of team sports. At USF, he was a two-time All-American, won two straight NCAA championships and led the team to 55 consecutive wins. And he won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics.
During his 13 years in Boston, he carried the Celtics to the NBA Finals 12 times, winning the championship 11 times, the last two titles while he was also serving as the NBA’s first Black coach.
“Bill Russell’s DNA is woven through every element of the Celtics organization, from the relentless pursuit of excellence, to the celebration of team rewards over individual glory, to a commitment to social justice and civil rights off the court. Our thoughts are with his family as we mourn his passing and celebrate his enormous legacy in basketball, Boston, and beyond,” the Celtics said in a statement.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver called Russell “the greatest champion in all of team sports” in a statement Sunday.
“I cherished my friendship with Bill and was thrilled when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I often called him basketball’s Babe Ruth for how he transcended time. Bill was the ultimate winner and consummate teammate, and his influence on the NBA will be felt forever,” Silver said.
A five-time MVP and 12-time All-Star, Russell was an uncanny shot-blocker who revolutionized NBA defensive concepts. He finished with 21,620 career rebounds — an average of 22.5 per game — and led the league in rebounding four times. He had 51 rebounds in one game and 49 in two others and posted 12 straight seasons with 1,000 or more rebounds. Russell also averaged 15.1 points and 4.3 assists per game over his career.
Until Michael Jordan’s exploits in the 1990s, Russell was considered by many as the greatest player in NBA history.
“Bill Russell was a pioneer — as a player, as a champion, as the NBA’s first Black head coach and as an activist. He paved the way and set an example for every Black player who came into the league after him, including me “The world has lost a legend. My condolences to his family and may he rest in peace,” Jordan, now the chairman of the Charlotte Hornets, said in a statement.
Russell was awarded the Medal of Freedom by former President Barack Obama in 2011, the nation’s highest civilian honor. And in 2017, the NBA awarded him with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
William Felton Russell was born Feb. 12, 1934, in Monroe, Louisiana. His family moved to the Bay Area, where he attended McClymonds High School in Oakland. He was an awkward, unremarkable center on McClymonds’ basketball team, but his size earned him a scholarship at San Francisco, where he blossomed.
“I was an innovator,” Russell told The New York Times in 2011. “I started blocking shots although I had never seen shots blocked before that. The first time I did that in a game, my coach called timeout and said, ‘No good defensive player ever leaves his feet.'”
Russell did it anyway, and he teamed with guard KC Jones to lead the Dons to 55 straight wins and national titles in 1955 and 1956. (Jones missed four games of the 1956 tournament because his eligibility had expired.) Russell was named the NCAA tournament Most Outstanding Player in 1955. He then led the US basketball team to victory in the 1956 Olympics at Melbourne, Australia.
With the 1956 NBA draft approaching, Celtics coach and general manager Red Auerbach was eager to add Russell to his lineup. Auerbach had built a high-scoring offensive machine around guards Bob Cousy and Bill Sharman and undersized center Ed Macauley but he thought the Celtics lacked the defense and rebounding needed to transform them into a championship-caliber club. Russell, Auerbach felt, was the missing piece to the puzzle.
After the St. Louis Hawks selected Russell in the draft, Auerbach engineered a trade to land Russell for Ed Macauley.
Boston’s starting five of Russell, Tommy Heinsohn, Cousy, Sharman and Jim Loscutoff was a high-octane unit. The Celtics posted the best regular-season record in the NBA in 1956-57 and waltzed through the playoffs for their first NBA title, beating the Hawks.
In a rematch in the 1958 Finals, the Celtics and Hawks split the first two games at Boston Garden. But Russell suffered an ankle injury in Game 3 and was ineffective the remainder of the series. The Hawks eventually won the series in six games.
Russell and the Celtics had a stranglehold on the NBA Finals after that, going on to win 10 titles in 11 years and giving professional basketball a level of prestige it had not enjoyed before.
In the process, Russell revolutionized the game. He was a 6-foot-9 center whose lightning reflexes brought shot-blocking and other defensive maneuvers that trigger a fast-break offense into full development.
In 1966, after eight straight titles, Auerbach retired as coach and named Russell as his successor. It was hailed as a sociological advance, since Russell was the first Black coach of a major league team in any sport, let alone so distinguished a team. But neither Russell nor Auerbach saw the move that way. They felt it was simply the best way to keep winning, and as a player-coach, Russell won two more titles over the next three years.
Their biggest opponent was age. After he won his 11th championship in 1969 at age 35, Russell retired, triggering a mini-rebuild. During his 13 seasons, the NBA had expanded from eight teams to 14. Russell’s Celtics teams never had to survive more than three playoff rounds to win a title.
“If Bill Russell came back today with the same equipment and the same brainpower, the same person exactly as he was when he landed in the NBA in 1956, he’d be the best rebounder in the league,” Bob Ryan, a former Celtics beat writer for The Boston Globe, told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2019. “As an athlete, he was so far ahead of his time. He’d win three, four or five championships, but not 11 in 13 years, obviously.”
In 2009, the MVP trophy of the NBA Finals was named in Russell’s honor — even though he never won himself, because it wasn’t awarded for the first time until 1969. Russell, however, traditionally presented the trophy for many years, the last time in 2019 to Kawhi Leonard; Russell was not there in 2020 because of the NBA bubble nor in 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns.
Along with multiple titles, Russell’s career was also partly defined with his rivalry against Wilt Chamberlain.
In the 1959-60 season, the 7-foot-1 Chamberlain, who averaged a record 37.6 points per game in his rookie year, made his debut with the Philadelphia Warriors. On Nov. 7, 1959, Russell’s Celtics hosted Chamberlain’s Warriors, and pundits called the matchup between the best offensive and defensive centers “The Big Collision” and “Battle of the Titans.” While Chamberlain outscored Russell 30-22, the Celtics won 115-106, and the game was called a “new beginning of basketball.”
The matchup between Russell and Chamberlain became one of basketball’s greatest rivalries. One of the Celtics’ titles came against Chamberlain’s San Francisco’s Warriors teams in 1964.
Although Chamberlain outrebounded and outscored Russell over the course of their 142 career head-to-head games (28.7 rebounds per game to 23.7, 28.7 points per game to 14.5) and their entire careers (22.9 RPG to 22.5, 30.1 PPG to 15.1), Russell usually got the nod as the better overall player, mainly because his teams won 87 (61%) of those games.
In the eight playoff series between the two players, Russell and the Celtics won seven. Russell has 11 championship rings; Chamberlain has just two.
“I was the villain because I was so much bigger and stronger than anyone else out there,” Chamberlain told the Boston Herald in 1995. “People tend not to root for Goliath, and Bill back then was a jovial guy and he really had a great laugh.Plus, I played on the greatest team ever.
“My team was losing and his was winning, so it would be natural that I would be jealous. Not true. I’m more than happy with the way things turned out. He was overall by far the best, and that only helped bring out the best in me.”
After Russell retired from basketball, his place in its secure history, he moved into broader spheres, hosting radio and television talk shows and writing newspaper columns on general topics.
In 1973, Russell took over the Seattle SuperSonics, then a 6-year-old expansion franchise that had never made the playoffs, as coach and general manager. The year before, the Sonics had won 26 games and sold 350 season tickets. Under Russell, they won 36, 43, 43 and 40 games, making the playoffs twice. When he resigned, they had a solid base of 5,000 season tickets and a team that reached the NBA Finals the next two years.
Russell reportedly became frustrated over the players’ reluctance to embrace his team concept. Some suggested that the problem was Russell himself; he was said to be aloof, moody and unable to accept anything but the Celtics’ tradition. Ironically, Lenny Wilkens guided Seattle to a championship two years later, preaching the same team concept that Russell had tried to instill unsuccessfully.
A decade after he left Seattle, Russell gave coaching another try, replacing Jerry Reynolds as coach of the Sacramento Kings early in the 1987-88 season. The team staggered to a 17-41 record, and Russell departed midseason.
Between coaching stints, Russell was most visible as a color commentator on televised basketball games. For a time he was paired with the equally blunt Rick Barry, and the duo provided brutally frank commentary on the game. Russell was never comfortable in that setting, though, explaining to the Sacramento Bee, “The most successful television is done in eight-second thoughts, and the things I know about basketball, motivation and people go deeper than that.”
He also dabbled with acting, performing in a Seattle Children’s Theater show and an episode of “Miami Vice,” and he wrote a provocative autobiography, “Second Wind.”
Russell became the first Black player to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1975, and in 1980 he was voted Greatest Player in the History of the NBA by the Professional Basketball Writers Association of America. He was part of the 75th Anniversary Team announced by the NBA in October 2021.
In 2013, Boston honored Russell with a statue at City Hall Plaza.
The state government has cleared the path for gambling giant The Star to lodge a proposal to build a 105-meter tall luxury hotel tower at Pyrmont, under plans to encourage more intensive development west of Sydney’s CBD.
Planning Minister Anthony Roberts said changes to planning rules for several sites on the Pyrmont peninsula would allow for the six-star hotel, theater and dining complex to be built at the northern end of the casino’s site.
The government has rezoned several key sites in Pyrmont – part of broader plans to transform the peninsula.Credit:Steven Siewert
Under the 20-year development strategy for Pyrmont and Ultimo, there is also provision for construction of a 110-metre tower above the future Metro station between Pyrmont Bridge Road and Union Street; and an Indigenous residential college at the University of Technology, Sydney. The Metro station is due to open in 2030.
Pyrmont Action residents’ group convenor Elizabeth Elenius said of the two towers above 100 meters, or roughly 30 storeys: “They’re both too high. They don’t fit the principles laid out in the Pyrmont peninsula place strategy where development has to blend into the existing area and not compromise it. They’re both totally out of scale.”
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The state government has been working on plans to redevelop Pyrmont since 2019, when the state’s independent planning authority refused The Star’s earlier $530 million proposal for a 66-storey casino tower.
It is also forging ahead with a wave of development around the western harbor in inner Sydney, with planned overhauls for Central Barangaroo, Blackwattle Bay, Darling Harbor and the Bays West precinct at Rozelle.
Roberts said changes to the legal planning controls for the Pyrmont sites – controls known as Sydney’s Local Environment Plan (LEP) – would allow developers to lodge applications for retail, dining and tourism projects.
He said the government’s long-term strategy to guide development for the Pyrmont area more broadly would provide “industry and the community the certainty they need to bring to life incredible new assets”.
Sen. Pat Toomey on Sunday criticized the Democratic-led climate and tax plan backed by Joe Manchin.
“It really looks to me like Joe Manchin has been taken to the cleaners,” the Republican said on CNN.
Democrats have hailed the proposed climate investments as something that has been long overdue.
GOP Sen. Pat Toomey on Sunday criticized the Democratic-led climate, health care, and tax deal crafted by Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, stating that he was “really surprised” to see the conservative West Virginia senator agree to the proposal.
During an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the retiring two-term Pennsylvania lawmaker told co-anchor Jake Tapper that he valued his relationship with Manchin, but said the bill that is slated to come from the deal would be “a disaster” .”
“I like Joe Manchin very much — he and I’ve become friends over the years that we’ve served together in the Senate,” Toomey said. “But it really looks to me like Joe Manchin has been taken to the cleaners.”
He continued: “And what does Joe get for this? He gets the promise that someday in the future, they’ll pass some kind of legislation about energy infrastructure. So this is a disaster. It’s gonna make inflation worse. It’s not going to do any good. I’m really surprised that Joe agreed to this.”
Manchin has played a highly consequential role in the 50-50 Senate since his vote can sink or swim everything from reconciliation legislation to judicial appointments, and he has been a tough sell on many of the larger social-spending proposals that many Democrats sought to pass ; his support of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has been a boon to the party’s morale, as many had all but given up on enacting climate legislation before the November midterms, when Republicans could potentially win back one or both chambers of Congress.
The bill would greenlight a three-year extension of subsidies for individuals to buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, while also providing nearly $370 billion for climate and energy programs and $300 billion to reduce the federal budget deficit. The bill would also generate roughly $739 billion in revenue over the next decade, aided in part by a 15% corporate minimum tax on companies with net income exceeding $1 billion.
Toomey contended in the interview that the legislation would chip away at the 2017 tax reform package signed into law by then-President Donald Trump.
And Toomey said that the bill would “do nothing” to fight climate change despite the huge investments made in the proposal, pointing out that many other countries lack programs that would put a dent in overall emissions.
“What we need is a strong economy and the ability to find the innovation and the technology that will allow us on a massive commercial scale to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere,” he said. “But these gestures, they may feel good, they’re not gonna accomplish it.”
Schumer and Manchin are looking to pass the legislation in August.
A NSW building company has gone into voluntary administration, leaving at least 30 homes in limbo.
On Friday night, Sydney-based Willoughby Homes appointed external administrators.
The company collapsed just over 24 hours after NSW Fair Trading suspended its building license for failing to pay back debts ordered by a court.
Homeowners were informed via email late on Friday that David Mansfield and Jason Tracy of Deloitte’s turnaround and restructuring department had been appointed as joint administrators.
A sister company of Willoughby Homes, Project 360 Degrees, which was run by the same leadership team, is also part of the administration proceedings.
It comes after an extensive news.com.au investigation found the company has been non-functional for some time, with build sites stalling for as long as a year, the company’s home building insurance not being reinstated and finally, all its offices being cleared out and phone lines going straight to voicemail.
News.com.au understands around 30 homes were in the pipeline to be built and that at least 10 creditors are owed money. There are also around eight staff members who will be impacted, although it’s understood they had all ceased working at the company in the last several weeks. Staff had not been paid their superannuation in the months leading up to the collapse and one staff member is owed $53,000 in wages.
One creditor, Regno Trades, is owed $184,000 and has a court date hearing this Wednesday calling for Willoughby Homes to “be wound up in insolvency”.
At least 10 contractors are chasing Willoughby Homes over unpaid debts and more than a dozen customers have taken them to NCAT demanding their deposits or progress payments be returned as works have stalled.
Although Regno Trades has applied for Willoughby Homes to be placed into liquidation over a $184,310 payment, several other creditors have also taken legal action.
Five companies have applied for a default judgment over payments they claim is owed to them: H & R Interiors ($73,925), Prospa Advance Millers ($60,913), Scaffolding Australia ($22,794), ATF Services ($5,658) and Green Resources Material Australia ($6,503). ).
Elba Kitchens claimed to news.com.au that they were owed around $80,000 from Willoughby Homes.
Trueform Frames and Trusses claim they are waiting on an outstanding payment from Willoughby Homes of $24,684 from an invoice issued more than seven months ago while Finese Electrical and Air Conditioning claims it is owed $4531 from jobs done in February.
News.com.au knows of two other suppliers owed money.
It’s understood these creditors have not yet been contacted about the company’s voluntary administration.
News.com.au has contacted the administrators for comment.
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The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) ordered Willoughby Homes to pay back $76,837 to a customer on June 8 and then last week, on July 21, another homeowner was also awarded $38,456, payable immediately.
Both debts were never paid, prompting the building license of Willoughby Homes to be suspended on Thursday.
Two employees who quit several months are also owed thousands in unpaid superannuation in what they said was a sign that the company was on the brink of collapse.
Xavier* worked in the sales department of Willoughby Homes for more than a year before he was made redundant in February 2021. The father-of-three claims he is still yet to be paid $53,000 from his commission fees. To recover the money, he’s spent around $5,000 on lawyers although his latest legal letter from him has gone ignored for months.
He also learned he was owed about $7000 in unpaid superannuation from Willoughby Homes.
Another staff member, Eric*, was owed about $5000 in super and had to get tax authorities to intercede on his behalf to recover his cash.
In June, news.com.au flagged that Willoughby Homes was on its last legs as some customers watched their dream home languish for months in the final stages of the project.
Several other aspiring homeowners forked out tens of thousands in a deposit as long ago as 2020 and to date, nothing has been done on their empty site.
News.com.au also knows of at least two customers who signed a contract with Willoughby Homes when the company was not able to enter into any new contracts.
NSW insurer iCare had not reinstated Willoughby Homes’ Home Builders Compensation Fund (HBCF) since April 2021, with the state body rejecting multiple applications, it confirmed to news.com.au.
That means the construction firm could not begin any new projects that required HBCF — so any project costing more than $20,000.
A NSW Fair Trading spokesperson told news.com.au that “It is a breach of the Home Building Act for a builder to enter into a contract to complete residential building work above $20,000 without HBCF insurance”.
Mum-of-three Marice Hartono and her husband, from North Ryde, gave out $38,000 to the builder as a deposit while Greg Denton and his wife paid $22,000 for a Central Coast home.
Both customers are not insured as they signed after Willoughby Homes’ HBCF had not been renewed and are not entitled to any compensation from the fund.
Ms Hartono told news.com.au she was “devastated” to hear the news that the company had gone bust as it’s left so many “unanswered questions” about what this means for her deposit and her plans of a dream home.
Since June, NSW Fair Trading has been actively investigating Willoughby Homes, with the government department telling news.com.au “The investigation into Willoughby Homes Pty Ltd is ongoing and no comment can be made at this time.
“NSW Fair Trading encourages anyone who has contracted with this trader to call 13 32 20.”
On Thursday, the entity used its powers against Willoughby Homes to suspend its license, effectively stopping the company’s ability to trade at all.
NSW Fair Trading took the drastic action of using Section 42A of the Home Building Act 1989, which allowed them to “automatically suspend a contractor license where the holder fails to comply with an order by a court or the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) to pay money for a building claim by the due date”.
Not long after, administrators were appointed to the struggling company.
Customers have been left reeling over the long months of waiting as the company floundered.
Cherry Cobrador-Wong, 33, and her husband Logan Wong, 35, from Sydney’s west, who recently had a baby, are behind in mortgage and rent because they claim their house has been left untouched since November when it was nearing its final stages.
“I’m crying all the time. I’m emotionally saddened and destroyed,” she previously told news.com.au.
Saif Nabi and his wife Hanniya as well as their two-year-old son have also been left in the lurch.
“One and a half years into it and we’re not closer, it’s just an empty lot of land,” Mr Nabi lamented.
At first the Nabi family were ecstatic about building their dream home in Box Hill, forking out $18,000 in an initial deposit.
But as the months passed by, Mr Nabi said the situation turned “into a nightmare” and he called to mutually end the contract.
“Since then it’s just been complete radio silence,” he said.
Sarah Little and Nikki Young are two more impacted homeowners who forked out $29,000 as a deposit but have yet to see a single worker set foot on their vacant lot.
The pair of paramedics signed with Willoughby Homes in March last year for a $291,000 four-bedroom, two-bathroom home in Menangle Park, in Sydney’s south west.
“It’s taken a pretty big toll on our mental health and we’ve gone from being pretty financially stable to now having to really consider if we can even afford the home we dreamed of.”
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It’s already been a busy year for new video games and there’s more to look forward to in August.
This month marks the release of the long-awaited Saint’s Row reboot which is sure to fill the void as we wait the long time before GTA 6 releases. You can also support our Aussie video games industry in August by checking out the adorable Cult of the Lamb.
Here are all the major game releases you have to look forward to in August 2022.
What new video games are coming out in August 2022?
Two Point Campus
Release Date: August 9
If you’ve always wanted to run your own university now you can in the very wholesome Two Point Campus.
Two Point Campus allows you to build the university you always dreamed of and then attend it. Your characters can learn at classes, go to parties and partake in all sorts of social events. Who wouldn’t want to relive those glory days of two-minute noodles and all-nighters?
Buy it on: PS5 | PS4 | Xbox | switch
Cult of the Lamb
Release Date: August 9
The latest homegrown game out of Australia is a cute little indie titled Cult of the Lamb. As the title suggests you do indeed build a cult while playing as a lamb as you recruit disciples in the name of the stranger who saved you from death.
Cult of the Lamb looks like a delight with its use of 2D animation paired with farming sim elements and dungeon-crawler gameplay. All hail the lamb!
Buy it on: Playstation | Xbox | Switch | pc
Madden NFL 23
Release Date: August 19
Another month another sports sim. This time we have Madden NFL 23 which allows you to play your way through the history books of American football.
This latest iteration promises ultra-realistic gameplay using the enhanced capabilities of the PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles.
Buy it on: PS5 | PS4 | Xbox Series X/S | Xbox One
Saint’s Row (2022)
Release Date: August 23
The long-awaited Saint’s Row reboot is finally making its way to shelves in August.
The reboot will feature the biggest and best Saint’s Row playground yet, set in the fictional Santa Ileso, a city in the heart of the American Southwest. There you’ll be sucked into a world of crime as warring factions fight for power and you use all the many guns at your disposal to rise to the top.
Buy it on: PS5 | PS4 | Xbox | pc
Stay tuned to Lifehacker Australia because we’ll be bringing you lists of the best games to buy each month throughout 2022.
Do you have a game you’re really looking forward to in August? Let us know in the comments.
Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for black women in Hollywood when she played lieutenant Nyota Uhura in the original Star Trek TV show, has died at 89.
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Nichols’ son Kyle Johnson said she died on Saturday in Silver City, New Mexico
Her role in the 1966—1969 series as Lieutenant Uhura earned Nichols a lifelong position of honor with the series’ fans
Nichols also served for many years as a NASA recruiter, helping bring minorities and women into the astronaut corps
Her son Kyle Johnson said Nichols died on Saturday in Silver City, New Mexico.
“Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to natural causes and passed away,” Mr Johnson wrote on his mother’s official Facebook page.
“Her light, however, like the ancient galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from, and draw inspiration.
“Her’s was a life well lived and as such a model for us all.”
Her role in the 1966—1969 series as Lieutenant Uhura earned Nichols a lifelong position of honor with the series’ fans, known as Trekkers and Trekkies.
It also earned her accolades for breaking stereotypes that had limited black women to acting roles as servants and included an interracial on-screen kiss with co-star William Shatner that was unheard of at the time.
Nichols played the Communications Officer on the USS Enterprise in the original series Star Trek.(Supplied: NASA/file)
Fellow cast member George Takei described Nichols as “trailblazing and incomparable”
“For today, my heart is heavy, my eyes shining like the stars you now rest among, my dearest friend,” he posted to Twitter.
Takei played Sulu in the original Star Trek alongside Nichols.
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But her impact was felt beyond her immediate co-stars, and many others in the Star Trek world also tweeted their condolences.
Celia Rose Gooding, who currently plays Uhura in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, wrote on Twitter that Nichols “made room for so many of us. She was the reminder that not only can we reach the stars, but our influence is essential to their survival. Forget shaking the table, she built it.”
Like other original cast members, Nichols also appeared in six big-screen spin-offs starting in 1979 with Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and frequented Star Trek fan conventions.
She also served for many years as a NASA recruiter, helping bring minorities and women into the astronaut corps.
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More recently, she had a recurring role on television’s Heroes, playing the great-aunt of a young boy with mystical powers.
Star Trek premiered on NBC on September 8, 1966.
Its multicultural, multiracial cast was creator Gene Roddenberry’s message to viewers that in the far-off future — the 23rd century — human diversity would be fully accepted.
“I think many people took it into their hearts… that what was being said on TV at that time was a reason to celebrate,” Nichols said in 1992 when a Star Trek exhibit was on view at the Smithsonian Institution.
Shayna Jack almost apologized for saying she was about to get emotional after her bronze medal swim. The 23-year-old comeback star has nothing to apologize for.
After a string of cruel injuries and a two-year doping ban, Jack on Monday morning enjoyed the single sweetest moment of her swimming career and was overcome with emotion.
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Jack missed out on gold in the women’s 50m freestyle final to Aussie superstar Emma McKeon, who won a mind-boggling 11th career gold medal.
It was an astonishing medal sweep for Australia with Meg Harris taking the silver, just 0.04 seconds ahead of Jack.
Jack has previously won world championship gold medals and a Commonwealth Games gold medal in relay events — but this was her first ever major individual swimming medal. You could tell as she fronted the press after the swim that it meant everything,
Jack had qualified fastest for the final and had some regret about missing out on the gold — but falling short against one of the greatest athletes of all time is nothing to be disappointed by.
She started her brief press conference by saying: “I’m just going to get emotional.
“Like it might not have been the result I wanted tonight, but I have to be really proud of how far I’ve come.
“It’s not been an easy journey. It’s been two major hiccups. Just to be standing here today and to be able to get on the podium with these two girls is actually such an honor. I probably can’t put into words how amazing it feels to be here.”
Jack said winning a gold medal in an individual event is the next thing for her to chase with plenty of fire in her belly.
“I have always loved being part of the relays but to progress and to be on the podium as an individual swimmer is second to none,” she said.
“I’m so proud of myself and these girls tonight. We gave it our all.
“I don’t think I’ve given myself that time to recognize how far I’ve come.”
It was an emotional night for the Aussie team with McKeon also briefly breaking down in tears after her historic achievement.
Jack’s emotion shows how far she has come.
She last month became a world champion after anchoring the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay team to gold in Budapest.
Jack was returning after the shock moment on the eve of the 2019 World Championships where it was revealed she had tested positive to anabolic agent Ligandrol.
Jack continually maintained her innocence and had her suspension cut in half by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in November 2020.
For 25-year-old Alana Cook, the thought of going into a business and asking for a job was scary.
Key points:
A summit is being held in Shepparton this week to show how businesses can better engage with young people
Organizers hope it will also show businesses how they can better support young people who have experienced trauma
Alana Cook says support from the Youth Foyer helped her find work
“You read job applications and you’re like ‘There is no way that I’m ever going to get a job like that’,” she said.
When Ms Cook finished high school, she felt lost. She was living at home where she experienced issues with family and domestic violence.
A recommendation for her to go and live at the Youth Foyer in Shepparton, which provides safe and secure accommodation for young people who are unable to live at home, changed everything.
“I’ve never had that much support before. It was unusual for me for people to say, ‘Do you need help? Do you need anything?'” she said.
Sarah Norris and Lisa Kerr hope that hearing about Alana Cook’s experience will help businesses better engage with the city’s young people.(ABC Shepparton: Courtney Howe)
The Foyer introduced Ms Cook to Jenny Foott from Foott Waste Solutions, which took the pressure off her needing to approach the business by herself.
“I didn’t have an interview,” Ms Cook said.
“I had a conversation with her explaining my situation and she explained the expectations that she had and that was a way of understanding both of our needs and where we could meet in the middle.”
Ms Cook said that conversation led her to work one day a week at Foott Waste and had given her the confidence to go after more jobs, while she undertook full-time study at Latrobe University in Shepparton.
Bringing employers and young people together
Ms Cook and Ms Foott will speak about their experience at a Youth Employment Summit this week in Shepparton, which will bring local businesses together to hear how they can attract and retain young people.
Sarah Norris is the senior youth investment coordinator with Better Futures and the Education First Youth Foyer Shepparton and is one of the people behind the summit.
Ms Norris said the idea was to help employers understand the issues being faced by young people in Shepparton, particularly those who had experienced trauma.
“A lot of people have experienced some form of stress themselves and they hopefully have not experienced significant trauma, but they’ve felt that stress and we all know how we personally react,” she said.
“I think in the cohorts that I work with it can manifest in different ways and sometimes the behavior that is demonstrated, which is just a symptom of the trauma and stress, can be interpreted incorrectly.”
Ms Norris said businesses were screaming out for workers and there were plenty of young people who wanted to stay and work in Shepparton.
“It’s about helping those employers tap into those resources and tap into young people who want to stay in Shepparton. They’re comfortable here, this is their home, this is their community, and we want to grow that.”
Sarah Norris says Shepparton businesses are crying out for workers.(ABC Shepparton: Courtney Howe)
Strong interest from business community
Lisa Kerr from the Goulburn Murray Local Learning and Employment Network said there had been strong interest from businesses for the event.
She said there were many businesses in Shepparton that were finding ways to work with young people, and they hoped they could use those examples to show others what was possible.
“Whether it be some employment programs that they’re able to bring in or even just speak with their staff around expectations and coaching them a little bit,” Ms Kerr said.
“The idea is to showcase some of those businesses that are doing that, that are really open to embracing that in the workplace and realizing that things have changed over the past few years, and they have to be flexible and look at different ways that they can be included in their workplace.”
Ms Cook hoped sharing her experience would encourage other businesses to sit down and start a conversation.
“Be open to young people, have a conversation,” she said.
“You don’t always know what they’re experiencing or have experienced yourself, but some level of understanding and compassion is needed.”
