Manly Sea Eagles NRL player Manase Fainu will remain on bail over the weekend after being found guilty of stabbing a church youth leader in a brawl outside a Sydney dance.
Key points:
Fainu had pleaded not guilty
He was stood down under the NRL’s no-fault policy in 2019
Fainu played 34 NRL matches across the 2018 and 2019 seasons
The 24-year-old pleaded not guilty to wounding Faamanu Levi with intent to cause grievous bodily harm at Wattle Grove late at night on October 25, 2019.
In his evidence to the Parramatta District Court jury, he denied being the stabber saying when he heard “knife knife” he ran away scared for his own safety.
But the jurors took just over two hours to return a guilty verdict on Thursday afternoon, prompting prosecutor Emma Curran to apply for immediate detention.
Judge Nanette Williams adjourned the application until Monday because of the late hour and because Friday’s industrial strike by prison officers would mean he could not be taken into custody if she so ruled.
Fainu’s barrister, Margaret Cunneen SC, opposed the application saying he had not breached any bail conditions over the last three years.
“This obviously will be appealed as a perverse verdict in view of the evidence,” she said.
Noting it would be surprising if full-time custody was not imposed, the judge ordered Fainu to report to police daily, live with his parents and not leave the address without one of them, and not contact any witnesses.
Tony Quach testified to seeing Fainu plunge a steak knife into the back of Mr Levi in the car park brawl, referring to him looking angry and wearing a sling.
The jury was told the footballer had recently undergone shoulder surgery and had his arm in a sling that evening.
The stabbing occurred after an earlier fight on the dancefloor of the alcohol-free charity event organized by the Church of the Latter Day Saints.
Ms Cunneen had submitted that in the heat of the moment, with the darkness, chaos and speed of it unfolding, the jury could not be certain who stabbed Mr Levi.
But they could be certain the NRL hooker, never before in trouble for any violence, did not, she said.
The jurors were told Fainu and his friend Uona Faingaa were involved in the dancefloor fight and ushered outside by Mr Levi who told them not to fight on church grounds.
CCTV footage showed Fainu with a white towel draped over his head and his four friends jumping back over a fence and into a car park where the brawl occurred with Mr Levi.
Ms Curran contended that when things looked like they were getting out of hand, Fainu pulled out the knife and plunged it into Mr Levi’s back.
“Not content with having stabbed him once … [Fainu] moved around to the front of Mr Levi and swung the knife upwards towards [his] face cutting him across the eyebrow,” Ms Curran said.
“Then he ran back to the car.”
Another witness involved in the brawl told the court that he saw a male in a sling approach his brother holding a knife.
“The accused was the only person in a sling. And a sling is quite a distinctive feature,” Ms Curran said.
She argued that Fainu was an unimpressive and evasive witness who gave contradictory and occasionally fanciful answers.
She asked the jury to reject such evidence including his reason for scaling a three-metre tall brick fence to get back onto the church grounds, rather than entering through the front gate, because “it was easier”.
He told the jury the white towel draped over his head was a “security blanket” doused in cold water because he had a headache, not to hide his identity.
Fainu also denied holding, seeing, or knowing of a weapon being brought that evening.
He was stood down under the NRL’s no-fault policy when charged in late October 2019.
Fainu played 34 NRL matches across the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
Stratosphere and AJF have collaborated with Top Shelf International’s NED Australian Whiskey brand for a campaign featuring a combination of TV sponsorship and out of home placement.
The campaign features a range of 15 second TV commercials live in key AFL and NRL games on Thursday and Friday nights across regional markets. The sponsorships will also include spots in the upcoming AFL and NRL finals and grand finals, as well as the AFL Brownlow Medal Night.
Ryan Buckle, sales & marketing director at Top Shelf International, jokingly said: “We are swooNED by the performance of NED.”
Josh Raskin Gottlieb, media director at Stratosphere added: “The NED Australian Whiskey audience is a passionate and loyal bunch, so we wanted to establish and maintain a relationship with them via a regular presence in moments that are important to them.”
Using insight into local alcohol sales, Stratosphere developed a media strategy based on targeting the postcodes that would be most receptive to the new Aussie spirit of NED Australian Whisky’s messaging.
“Launching an Aussie brand is never easy. So, we needed to be powerfully simple and shoot straight” said George Freckleton, creative director at AJF. “We loved that NED had such a powerful difference in the market, and set out to reflect on these uniquely local characteristics. We couldn’t be happier with how much the campaign has resonated.”
The campaign is also raising brand awareness through large format digital and convenience store out of home panels in selected outer suburban and regional market locations.
Credits
Media Agency: Stratosphere • Chief Executive Officer: Adam Hilton • Group Media Director: Justen Duggan • Media Director: Josh Raskin Gottlieb • Senior Digital Manager: Katherine Allan • Media Coordinator: Isabella Anderson
Creative Agency: AJF Partnership • Executive Creative Director: Adam Francis • Creative Director: George Freckleton • Copywriter: Matt Newman • Art Director: Rhyen Ellis • Strategist: Andrea Nelson • Client Partner: Xavier Hogan • Account Director: Amy McKay • Agency Producer: Ilona Phyland
A young woman has detailed how she met her now-boyfriend the old-fashioned way – after her “wingman” dad spontaneously set them up at a pub.
Alice James, a television publicist from Melbourne, made the decision to quit dating apps in early June after she was fed up with the dating scene.
WATCH VIDEO ABOVE: How Alice’s dad set her up on a date
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“I just wasn’t having fun, I was feeling like crap, it was taking its toll and I just thought, I’m just going to take the pressure off for a while,” she said in a now-viral TikTok video.
Just three weeks later, the 30-year-old was enjoying a casual night out with her dad at the pub when they spotted an attractive stranger sitting at the bar.
“Fast forward, I was sitting at the local pub with my dad, we were just having a drink, talking s***, as you do with your dad,” Alice recalled.
Alice James met her now-boyfriend after her “wingman” dad set them up. Credit: Alice James
“And he’s like, ‘I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there’s a real hottie sitting at the bar.’
“I’m like, ‘I know dad, I clocked him when I walked in, he’s a total spunk’.
“Dad’s like, ‘Oh, leave it with me’.”
Stepping in as the “ultimate wingman”, the matchmaking dad wandered over to the man.
“They started chatting about footy and all that stuff and then dad’s like, ‘Hey are you single?’ And the dude is like, ‘Yes I am’, and dad’s like, ‘Well… she’s my daughter, she’s single too’, ”she said.
exchanged numbers
“Anyway we all start chatting and then he’s like, ‘I’ve got to go’ and dad’s like, ‘You can’t leave, you haven’t exchanged numbers’.”
Alice said her dad then walked over to the bar to grab a notepad and pen.
“We both exchanged numbers… and then we’ve been talking,” she said.
“Now we have a date.”
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW: How dad acted as the ‘ultimate wingman’ for his daughter
Dad acts as ‘ultimate wingman’ for his daughter.
Dad acts as ‘ultimate wingman’ for his daughter.
After their first date, Alice confirmed she had an “awesome” time with the man.
“It was a fantastic date,” she said.
“He is very attractive, he’s super successful, very intellectual and good banter.
“All in all, a good date. I’m just trying to be real chill about it because chill is something that I’m not.
‘Dad did real good’
“But I’m trying to be chill and take it one day as it comes.
She added: “Good work dad… Dad did real good.”
Alice was enjoying a night out with her dad at the pub when he decided to set her up with a stranger. Credit: Alice James
After multiple dates, Alice started gushing about the man on social media.
“He’s so nice,” she said.
“It’s very lovely to spend time with him.”
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW: Alice confirms man at pub is now her boyfriend
Woman confirms the man her dad set her up with is now her boyfriend.
Woman confirms the man her dad set her up with is now her boyfriend.
More than a month later, Alice shared an exciting update, alongside her dad, on social media.
“Hey dad, remember when we went out to a local pub and you were my wingman and you got a guy’s phone number for me?” she asked, as her dad said “yes”.
“Well last night, he asked me to be his girlfriend.”
‘He’s now my boyfriend’
In another video, Alice said her boyfriend did something that left her “too stunned to speak”.
“So I was driving my boyfriend to pick up his car and he was sitting in the passenger seat. He’d bought us blueberries for breakfast and so he started giving me blueberries to eat as I’m driving,” she recalled.
Alice said she and her date hit it off and they are now in a relationship. Credit: Alice James
“Then I look at him and noticed he’s sorting through the blueberries and I was like, ‘What are you doing?’ and he was like, ‘I’m just picking out the ones that are juicy and not bruised to give to you and I’m eating the bad ones.
Amazed with his gesture, Alice urged: “Girls, do not settle, there’s good ones out there.”
‘Can your dad wingman me?’
Her original video has been viewed more than 1.3 million times – with many praising her dad as “the best wingman ever”.
“My dad would never, can I borrow yours please?” one joked.
Another said: “Wow! Can your dad please come wingman for me?”
While one added: “If your dad can find you this gem then surely my dad can find me mine.”
Just lately, Microsoft introduced the overall availability (GA) of its Azure Fluid Relay service. This managed cloud providing allows internet builders to make use of the Fluid Framework to construct enterprise-grade collaborative purposes.
Azure Fuel Relay service is constructed on WebSockets, a full duplex communication channel powered by trendy internet browsers. Introduced at Microsoft’s Construct developer convention in 2019, the innovation in Fluid Framework is that it helps distributed and synchronized shared state – thus simplifying the creation of a collaborative utility. At present, the one supported language for the Fluid Framework is TypeScript or JavaScript.
Builders can set up and run their purposes with Azure Fluid Relay by offering the Azure Fluid Relay service of their Azure account and configuring the Azure-client SDK package deal to attach their purposes to the Azure Fluid Relay occasion.
azure consumer package deal azureclient class that allows builders to work together with Fluid. The category comprises the logic for connecting the Fluid container to the service. Additionally, builders have to replace their app’s configuration to connect with the Azure service with the proper configuration values.
import { AzureClient, AzureConnectionConfig } from "@fluidframework/azure-client";
const clientProps = {
connection: {
sort: "distant",
tenantId: "YOUR-TENANT-ID-HERE",
tokenProvider: new AzureFunctionTokenProvider(
"AZURE-FUNCTION-URL"+"/api/GetAzureToken",
{ userId: "test-user",userName: "Take a look at Person" }
),
endpoint: "ENTER-SERVICE-DISCOVERY-URL-HERE",
},
};
const azureClient = new AzureClient(clientProps);
Note that Microsoft additionally affords WebSocket-based companies with Azure Net PubSub, a totally managed service that helps native and serverless WebSockets, and Azure SignalR, which permits builders so as to add real-time internet performance for purposes. Second, it’s not designed to summarize distributed state in the identical manner as Azure Fluid Relay. Additionally, with Azure Net PubSub just like SignalR, builders can carry their very own WebSocket libraries with out consumer or protocol necessities.
In a Microsoft Developer weblog publish, Mathangi Chakrapani and Pranshu Playingeach senior product advertising executives at Microsoft wrote:
The service allows builders to construct and deploy enterprise-ready collaboration purposes that carry out at industry-leading pace and scale. Azure Fluid Migration takes care of all the small print of Fluid collaboration, whereas as builders focus your consideration in your utility and finish consumer expertise.
At present, Azure Fluid Migration service is on the market in roughly 10 Azure areas, half of that are within the US, on a pay-as-you-go foundation. Extra particulars on pricing can be found on the pricing web page. As well as, builders can discover extra data and steerage via the documentation touchdown web page.
australian actor Jacob Elordi is joining the likes of his co-star Sydney Sweeney in speaking about money troubles – though this admission might not garner as much backlash as the actress’ did.
In an interview with G.Q. magazine, the 25-year-old euphoria star revealed that prior to booking his starring role on the HBO series – but after the release of Netflix’s The Kissing Boothin which he played the leading man – he moved to Los Angeles and crashed on a friend’s couch for a few weeks, and when he wasn’t sleeping there in the San Fernando Valley, he was sleeping in his 2004 Mitsubishi on Mulholland Drive.
“I wasn’t booking jobs,” he told the publication. “I think I had – I don’t know, $400 or $800 left in my bank account – and euphoria was my last audition before I went home for a little while to make some money and recover.”
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Jacob Elordi’s name started being recognized after his role in The Kissing Booth, but it was Euphoria that truly shot him to fame. (Getty)
Even after he booked the role of Nate Jacobs in euphoriafor a while, Elordi was still living in his car, recalling around the time the pilot for euphoria was being shot: “My car was like a hoarder’s, stacked with boxes and coat hangers and things.”
It was a producer for euphoria that noticed Elordi’s predicament, and ultimately got him a room at West Hollywood’s Standard.
“I got really lucky,” he told the publication. “Which is just an LA story, do you know?”
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Elordi also opened up about how, following the release of The Kissing Booth in 2018, he almost quit acting for good – the franchise has had mixed but notably mocking reviews, and when the first film was released, Elordi was dating actress Joey Kingwho played his on-screen love interest.
All the attention on his personal relationship with King made Elordi rethink whether he really wanted to be famous.
“[It] might sound quite sensitive and dramatic, but I am sensitive and I’m very dramatic,” he told the publication. “I hated being a character to the public. I felt so far from myself.”
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Elordi ultimately decided to continue pursuing his acting dreams, but says he still struggles with what comes with fame – namely, being followed by the paparazzi.
“It felt like, all of a sudden, I was a poster,” he said of the attention on him. “Like I was a billboard. It felt like it was for sale.”
“Then my brain went through the f–king wringer. Like, I wasn’t sure if I was genuine. It really skews your view. It creates a very paranoid way of living.”
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Hello, hello, hello, welcome back to another installation of Baby’s First Switch! As you would (hopefully) know by now, I am selecting different games to play on my Nintendo Switch each month which includes me asking all of you for advice. This month’s game I need your beginner’s tips for is none other than the iconic Legends of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Yes, that’s right. I’ve finally caved and decided to play what I know will challenge me more than any other Switch game I’ve played so far.
The reason for my initial hesitation is that I’m not great with logic. Like, at there. My brain doesn’t think rationally and when too many things are happening I get overwhelmed. Basically, I have the same logic skillset as a 4th grader, actually they might be smarter than me.
I also struggle immensely with puzzles that require ANY form of maths, reasoning or science. This is why I’m a writer.
So, for this Baby’s First Switch, I need you all more than ever, and your beginner’s tips even more so. Por favor, help me get along with Breath of the Wild. I cannot have this purchase linger over me for the rest of my life knowing I couldn’t finish it because of how many time’s I’ll most likely cry over a puzzle I can’t figure out. Or how many times I keep dying in battle, or in the fields, or by those purple lava-looking things.
We did a community review way back when and you all had lots of thoughts, feelings and emotions about Breath of the Wild. So now, give me that same energy with your beginner’s tips.
the Legends of Zelda: Breath of the Wildbeginner’s tips I need from you
Image: Nintendo/Zelda. Captioning by Kotaku Australia
I already know this is a hard game filled with puzzles my small, smooth brain cannot figure out so you best believe I need every single one of the tips and tricks you might possibly have for a simple beginner like me.
And if you don’t give me any of your beginner’s tips for Breath of the Wild I will simply cease to function. I will be stuck, frozen in time, glued to this keyboard I currently type from.
It will, not to be dramatic or anything, break my heart.
Look, I know I’m getting desperate here. I don’t want to say I’ve been ghosted by you all, Kotaku Australia community, but I’m starting to have doubts about our relationship. Is it me? Am I the villain? Why haven’t you responded to our texts? (By texts I mean comment section. It’s literally right below this article and you can jot down all the things you wish to say, we all know how much you love that. It’s free too!)
Anyways, the last time I asked for beginner’s tips the only person who came to my rescue was Louie. Even after my threats of sending our Ruby’s goblins! I hope you are all enjoying being covered in slime by them.
This time, I won’t be threatening you for tips. I will just be disappointed. Not mad, disappointed.
Yeah, try living with that.
If you want to give me some other gaming suggestions or tips, give me a shout on Twitter (@kystewart_) or chuck us an email.
Kyle Sandilands has offered a first glimpse of his newborn son Otto.
The baby was born shortly after the radio host frantically left his show, mid-program, when he learned fiancée Tegan Kynaston had gone into labor on Thursday morning.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: First look at baby Otto Sandilands
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“The baby is perfect. Everything is wonderful. He was just under three kilos,” the new dad said from the hospital live on KIIS radio on Friday.
He said he did not cry when Otto was born but he “felt the need to cry, like when you’re catching your breath, but thought, I can’t pull this off in front of medical professionals”.
Speaking about the birth, the radio host revealed Otto was born via C-section.
Kyle Sandilands wheels in his new baby. Credit: Supplied
As his son came into the world, Sandilands described a “big fountain of urine that sprayed across the theatre”.
Kyle said he cut the umbilical cord, “but blood shot out – they don’t tell you there’s blood in it”.
“Tegan’s just gone to sleep, I’m planning on running next door and stealing the baby to show you,” the new dad said.
As Sandilands wheeled his new son in, Jackie Henderson and the rest of the KIIS team yelled out, “Aw look at him!”
Kyle Sandilands shows off baby Otto. Credit: Supplied
“Here he is,” an excited Sandilands said.
“My mum said, ‘Oh he looks exactly like you’.”
Henderson agreed, “I think it does look like you, Kyle.”
Sandilands said the nurses told him the baby will “change his appearance every day.”
“I think he’s absolutely gorgeous now,” the radio host sweetly said.
Kyle Sandilands speaks live on air. Credit: Supplied
“Do you think you’re producing a supermodel here, mate?” one of the producers joked.
“That love (that everyone talks about) is really immense anxiety and having no idea – I am out of my depth,” the new dad admitted.
“It’s the greatest day of my life, she’s like a super mum,” he said of his fiancée Kynaston.
On Thursday, the 51-year-old quickly said his goodbyes to the KIIS team before removing his headphones – as he rushed out the door to be by Kynaston’s side in hospital.
Kyle Sandilands leaves the radio show. Credit: Supplied
‘It’s time!’
Shortly after, co-host Henderson confirmed on the show the couple had welcomed their baby boy after receiving a text message from Sandilands’ manager Bruno Bouchet.
“Little Otto was born this morning. Mum and bub both doing well,” the text from Bouchet read.
“Kyle’s beyond excited.”
Earlier on Thursday, Sandilands said he was broadcasting from home when he received the best personal news.
“I might have to leave the show and go to the hospital,” he abruptly said during the radio show.
Jackie O Henderson reacts to the news. Credit: Supplied
Kyle leaves mid-broadcast for the arrival of his baby.
Kyle leaves mid-broadcast for the arrival of his baby.
“It’s time? Oh, it’s time!” co-host Jackie O Henderson was heard saying from the studio.
“It’s time,” Sandilands confirmed.
The studio broke out in applause as the dad-to-be prepared to leave.
“Calm down, we don’t want the kid coming out too soon,” Sandilands joked.
Kyle and Tegan, who began dating in 2019, have already decided on names for both genders. Credit: Kyle and Jackie O
“You ready?” he was heard saying ‘off mic’ before telling the team, “Guys I’m so sorry, I feel very unprepared – I don’t even know if…”
“It’s okay,” Henderson reassured him, asking “Have you got your bag packed and everything?”.
“Yes, I’ve got my bag,” he replied.
“I’ve got to run, I feel like I’m abandoning you,” Sandilands added, before rushing off.
Kyle and Tegan find out they’re having a boy. Credit: kyleandjackieoshow/Instagram
Boy or girl?
After announcing the pregnancy news in February, Sandilands and Kynaston celebrated by throwing a gender reveal party on a boat in the middle of Sydney Harbour.
Courtesy of the Kyle and Jackie O Show’s Instagram, the excited couple was seen arriving on the boat as a live band played.
Pictures were shared of the four-tier gender reveal cake, ‘baby Sandilands’ decor, an elaborate candy bar – all in shades of blue and pink.
Kyle and Tegan before the gender reveal. Credit: kyleandjackieoshow/Instagram
The parents-to-be found out live on air that they were expecting a little boy.
The gender was announced by plans that flew over their boat spewing blue smoke.
Live on air, you could hear the crowd cheer as the plans flew past.
“We did expect a girl but we’re very, very happy,” Sandilands said after the plans flew past.
WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW: Kyle Sandilands announces the birth of his unborn child
Kyle Sandilands announces the birth of his unborn child.
Kyle Sandilands announces the birth of his unborn child.Some snapshots from the gender reveal party. Credit: kyleandjackieoshow/Instagram
Sandilands and Kynaston, who began dating in 2019, shared that they had decided on potential baby names.
Announcing to his listeners on February 13, Sandilands said: “We’re having a baby!” prompting the entire KIIS FM studio team to cheer.
“We are having a friggin’ baby. I couldn’t be happier,” he added.
Co-host Henderson – who’s a mother to daughter Kitty, aged 10 – told the couple she was “so happy”, and told them their lives would soon change forever.
Kyle Sandilands announces his baby’s gender in Sydney harbour.
Kyle Sandilands announces his baby’s gender in Sydney harbour.
‘He’s very emotional about it’
Speaking on air, Kynaston said Sandilands had been “excellent” since she’s fallen pregnant.
“He’s been very emotional… very happy about it,” she said.
Sandilands said his manager Bruno found it challenging to deflect questions from the media after Kynaston was spotted on February 2 with a “slight bump”.
Announcing to his listeners, Kyle said: “We’re having a baby!” prompting the entire KIIS FM studio team to cheer. Credit: KIIS
The couple announced their engagement live on air in January after he proposed in Port Douglas.
“I apologize to the women of the world, as I am officially off the market,” Sandilands said at the time.
He told his listeners Kynaston had “no clue” the proposal was coming.
The 50-year-old went into detail about his elaborate proposal plans that were set to feature fireworks, live music, an array of candles and a lavish meal.
However, not everything went according to plan.
A still from the proposal video posted to Instagram. Credit: kyleandjackieoshow/Instagram
The KIIS FM host had organized for singer-songwriter Conrad Sewell to fly in from overseas and perform the couple’s favorite song while Sandilands got down on one knee.
The radio host shared that “two days before the proposal, Conrad rang and he was very upset because he had caught COVID.”
“I couldn’t postpone it because there were chefs, fireworks and I had hired a venue,” Sandilands said.
Despite the complications, Sandilands told listeners the proposal went ahead without live music, explaining to then-girlfriend Kynaston that they were attending a pop-up art show.
Kyle Sandilands, left, and Tegan Kynaston, right. Credit: Getty Images/Facebook
“When we got there, we got out, I swung the door open and they played the Conrad song. There were candles and soft lighting,” Sandilands said.
Following the romantic proposal, the couple watched the fireworks display alongside close family and friends.
Kynaston, who is 15 years younger than her fiancé, met Sandilands as his personal assistant in 2019.
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The Warriors have powered home with three tries in the last six minutes to demolish the Bulldogs 42-18 at Mt Smart Stadium on Friday night.
With Tohu Harris and Addin Fonua-Blake turning on the power and Shaun Johnson turning back the clock, the Warriors sent the parochial Auckland crowd home happy with the seven-tries-to-three win.
The Warriors opened the scoring after seven minutes when Johnson put center Viliami Vailea into a huge hole and the youngster celebrated his return from a broken jaw with a try.
Just four minutes later the home side were in again when Dallin Watene-Zelezniak intercepted a Matt Burton pass and raced 85 meters to post his eighth try of the season. Reece Walsh’s conversion made it 12-0.
The Bulldogs were able to strike back in the 17th minute when Burton was cut down a meter short and a quick play-the-ball gave Jake Averillo the chance to power over from close range.
An error in the first set after points by the Bulldogs handed the Warriors field position and Edward Kosi made them pay when he finished off slick lead-up by Johnson and Walsh.
The Bulldogs struck first after the break when Walsh spilled a ball meters from his own tryline and Kyle Flanagan picked up the scraps to post his third try of the season. Burton’s conversion cut the margin to six.
Euan Aitken looked to have extended the Warriors’ lead in the 49th minute when he held off three defenders and reached out to plant the ball but replays showed he had lost control.
Just two minutes later the Bulldogs drew level when Josh Addo-Carr picked off a Johnson pass and sprinted 90 meters to score but the Warriors continued to mount pressure and crossed for their fourth try through Eliesa Katoa in the 57th minute to lead 24-18.
With 12 minutes to play the Warriors seemed to have extended their lead when Freddy Lussick found Josh Curran after collecting a Johnson bomb but replays showed a knock on by Watene-Zelezniak in the leap.
Fittingly it was one of the Warriors’ favorite sons Johnson who put the game out of reach with a trademark solo try in the 75th minute and Stacey Jones’ men were home at 30-18.
Kosi then finished off slick lead-up work by Reece Walsh to complete his double and the score had blown out to 36-18.
Fonua-Blake capped a superb game when he grabbed his first try of the season to round out a big win.
Match Snapshot
Bulldogs center Braidon Burns was placed on report in the seventh minute after a late challenge on Warriors kicker Daejarn Asi.
Bulldogs five-eighth Matt Burton went on report in the 35th minute for a shoulder charge.
Addin Fonua-Blake put in an outstanding 33-minute stint to start the game for the Warriors with 104 meters from nine runs.
Bulldogs winger Josh Addo-Carr has scored 16 tries in his past 15 games.
Warriors winger Edward Kosi has scored seven tries in his past four games.
With the Bulldogs down by six and desperately defending their line Josh Addo-Carr came up with a huge play when he anticipated Shaun Johnson’s long cut-out pass and swooped on an intercept. From a standing start ‘The Foxx’ slipped into overdrive and raced 90 meters to post the 118th try of his 147-game career. After failing to score a try in his first five matches in Canterbury colors Addo-Carr has exploded into action with two hat-tricks and three doubles in the ensuing 15 games.
“It was a big focus for us all week around attitude. A change in mindset to what we had the week before. You can fix attitude in a week, you can’t fix a lot of structure, and obviously coming home, there’s a good sign there that it really boosts this group. [next year] and these guys are in a good mood with their family around them. Today’s performance was off the back of the players bringing energy but also off playing in front of your crowd and what they bring.” – Warriors coach Stacey Jones
“I wasn’t happy with a lot of things we did defensively, we need to be a lot better there. We’re not building pressure on the opposition enough to wear them down and they’re building pressure on us, and it’s all to do with our defence. We need to fix that up and stop them making as many meters as they are making.” – Bulldogs coach Mick Potter
The Warriors head to Townsville to face the Cowboys in Round 23 before a daunting trip to face Penrith in Round 24 and a final round celebration in front of their own fans against the Titans on September 3. They should have Jesse Arthars and Chanel Harris-Tavita back on deck next week and enforcer Ben Murdoch-Masila the following week.
The Bulldogs face a tough run home with clashes against the Eels (a), Sharks (a) and Sea Eagles (h).
Australian fast-food chain Domino’s is losing ground on the local share market, as the global brand exits the country that made pizza famous.
The company that has the Australian franchise rights to Domino’s fell 6 per cent on the ASX on Friday, to $69.31.
ASX-listed Domino’s Pizza Enterprises not only runs the brand in Australia and New Zealand, but also in Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Luxembourg, Denmark and Taiwan, with a total of more than 3,100 stores.
The fall came after news broke that the global brand is exiting Italy, seven years after it opened its first store there.
While the Italian and Australian arms are not connected, some investors appear to have taken fright from the brand’s struggles internationally.
The rise of delivery services — such as Deliveroo, Just Eat and Glovo — took away any advantage the American company thought it would have in Italy, according to a report to investors in 2021 by its Italian franchise holder ePizza SpA.
In Australia, the same pressures are hitting the takeaway sector too.
Domino’s Pizza has more than 18,500 stores worldwide in at least 90 countries. Most are run as franchises, including in Australia.
Energy gains but ASX falls
The energy sector was the leading light on the Australian share market today, after oil prices climbed back above $US100 a barrel overnight, with the benchmark Brent crude oil futures contract sitting just below that mark at 4:50pm AEST.
Woodside Energy Group led the gains on the ASX 200, with a 3.7 per cent rise.
Beach Energy (+3.1 per cent) and Viva Energy (+2.6 per cent) also had strong sessions.
Coal miners New Hope (+3.5 per cent) and Whitehaven (+2.5 per cent) also jumped on board the energy bandwagon.
However, while rising energy costs are good for producers, they are bad for most of the rest of the economy and may also put pressure on interest rates to keep rising at a fast pace.
That saw the ASX 200 and All Ordinaries indices both fall 0.5 per cent, to 7,033 and 7,289 points respectively.
Industrials — many of which are exposed to rising energy costs — were the worst-performing sector, down 2 per cent.
Consumer cyclicals — generally very exposed to rising interest rates that reduce household spending — fell 1.2 per cent.
The worst-performing companies on the ASX 200 were Lake Resources (-13.5 per cent), Novonix (-8.6 per cent), Telix Pharmaceuticals (-7.7 per cent), Arena REIT No 1 (-6.7 per cent) and Nanosonics (- 6.4 per cent).
IAG returns to profit
Profit reporting season continued in Australia today.
Major results out today included insurer IAG.
It announced its net profit is up to $347 million. That comes after it lost more than $400 million the previous financial year.
Its profitability is up despite its overall revenue actually down $548 million overall on the previous financial year to $18.34 billion.
The insurer said its growth “predominantly reflected rate increases to offset inflationary pressures in the supply chain and natural perils.”
It said its insurance margins were 7.4 per cent below expectations after it had to pay out a large amount of premiums for natural disasters.
This year has seen enormous amounts of claims linked to the east coast floods and storms. IAG itself was hit by more than $1 billion.
IAG gained 1.1 per cent, to $4.66.
It is paying a dividend of 5 cents per share, down from last year’s 13-cent payout.
Investors not buying the inflation ‘Kool Aid’
The ASX traded down after Wall Street had mixed results overnight.
In the US, the Dow Jones closed flat, the S&P500 ended down 0.1 per cent, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq was off 0.6 per cent.
Wall Street surged the previous day when US markets rose after the world’s biggest economy released its latest inflation data.
The data showed price hikes were starting to ease, which might soften concerns about another big rate hike of up to 0.75 per cent next month.
However, San Francisco Fed president Mary Daly said it was too early to “declare victory” on inflation, despite the better figures.
Ms Daly also said a 0.5 per cent rate hike in September was currently her “baseline”, and jobs and worker data that would be out soon also needed to be taken into consideration.
Oil up as people switch from costly gas
US 10-year Treasury yields have risen slightly, in an indication that markets, too, are still betting on rate hikes.
City Index analyst Tony Sycamore said it looked like investors will still betting on the rate US hike to be as high as 0.75 per cent.
“The interest rate market is clearly not drinking the same post-inflation Kool Aid that the equity market has slugged on,” he said.
“Financial markets initially reacted positively to [US inflation] data that showed inflation in the US is moderating, but gains [were] then whittled away on concerns the market may have overreacted,” ANZ also noted.
Meanwhile, oil is up again.
“Oil prices continue to increase [as] hopes of stronger demand strengthened,” ANZ noted.
“The International Energy Agency [IEA] lifted its consumption estimate by 380 [thousand barrels per day]saying soaring gas prices amid strong demand for electricity is driving utilities to switch to oil.”
The US dollar dropped back to its post-CPI lows overnight, before paring back some losses.
“[The Australian dollar against the US dollar] briefly edged up towards 0.7150, thanks to a weaker $US and higher oil prices,” ANZ noted.
“Risks to [the Australian dollar] are still to the downside in our view.
“While market expectations for rate hikes [by the Reserve Bank of Australia] have come off in recent months, market pricing still shows a peak in the cash rate well above 3 per cent.”
The Australian dollar ended the day at 71.18 US cents by 5pm AEST.
This 17-in-1 Docking Station from Baseus offers plenty of ports and connectivity to turn to USB-C … [+] laptop into a desktop workhorse.
Baseus
If you’re looking for an affordable docking station for a Windows or Mac computer, this 17-in-1 model from Baseus could fit the bill. It has 16 ports, all fed from a single USB-C cable that attaches to the host computer. In addition, three HDMI ports can send different content to each display when used with a PC. There are also three USB 3.0, a couple of USB 2.0 and two USB Type-C ports.
Although this docking station comes with a power adapter for peripheral use, if you want to charge a host laptop, you’ll need to also use the laptop’s power adapter through the docking station’s PD USB-C connection.
The Baseus docking station can drive a single 4K monitor through one of the HDMI ports with a refresh rate of 30Hz. Alternatively, all three HDMI ports can be used to drive separate monitors at 1080P, with a refresh rate of 60Hz on a Windows system.
When used with a Mac, the docking station won’t support different content for each monitor because there is no support for MST mode. So if you use the Baseus with a Mac, you will only be able to mirror the main display to three monitors. There’s a 3.5mm stereo jack for connecting speakers or microphones for analog sound devices like headphones, microphones or a headset.
The Baseus 17-in-1 Docking Station can massively extend the connectivity of a USB-C laptop with data … [+] transfer speeds up to 5Gbps and three HDMI ports.
Baseus
For transferring data, the Baseus supports three USB 3.0 Type-A ports with a data transfer speed of up to 5Gbps. In addition, there are two USB 2.0 Type-A ports for legacy peripherals like a keyboard or mouse, plus a couple of USB 3.0 Type C ports with a speed of 5GBps. Also included are SD and microSD card slots that can be used to import image files and video footage, although you can’t read from both slots simultaneously.
For connecting with the outside world, the Baseus has a Gigabit Ethernet port that’s backward compatible with slower standards. In addition, the docking station will work with USB-C laptops, including Google Chromebook Pixel, Google Pixelbook Pen, Dell XPS13/15, G3/G5/G7, HP Pavilion X2, Lenovo, MacBook Pro/Air and more; compatible with “DP Alt Mode” of Samsung Galaxy S10/S10 Plus, S9/S9 Plus and S8/S8 Plus.
At the heart of the docking station, there’s a VL817 chip that ensures all 17 ports function correctly. There’s also protection against overcurrent, overvoltage and overheating. In addition, the dock has a one-year warranty and lifetime technical support.
Verdict: This is a competent docking station for anyone who wants to extend the functionality of a USB-C laptop or a regular desktop. It will work with Windows or macOS computers, but its video capabilities are limited on Macs to mirroring the main display. The Baseus 17-in-1 Docking Station is a neat little device with a stand for vertical use, saving valuable desktop real estate. As a primary docking station without Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4.0 standards, the Baseus offers a good choice and is supplied with US, European and UK plug adapters.
Pricing & Availability: The Baseus 17-in-1 Docking Station is available from Amazon and costs $125.99.
more info: baseus.com
Tech Specs:
PD USB-C Ports: Supports up to 100W fast charging but requires a 60 to 100W PD charger to power or recharge the laptop via the docking station.
Host Port: Connects to host computer using included USB-C to C cable.
HDMI Ports: 3 x HDMI ports. Each port supports up to 4K@30Hz on a qualified screen display and 1080P@60Hz when casting or mirroring on 2/3 displays.
USB 3.0 Ports: 3 x USB 3.0 ports with support for USB 3.0 Gen1 devices at 5Gbps.
USB 2.0 Ports: 2 x USB 2.0 ports with data transfer speed up to 480Mbps.
USB C Ports: 2 x USB-C ports with data transfer speed up to 5Gbps.
Card reader: SD and microSD up to 2TB.
Audio: 3.5mm combined audio port for wired headphones and microphones.
Power supply: DC 12V adapter rated at 36W DC.
Ethernet: RJ45 LAN port compatible with 10M/ 100M/ 1,000Mbps.
