Raiders coach Ricky Stuart will reportedly be suspended for one game and slapped with a $20,000 fine for his “weak-gutted dog” spray directed towards Panthers player Jaeman Salmon.
Stuart produced the stunning comments after the Raiders’ loss to the Panthers on Saturday. It was triggered by Salmon kicking Raiders hooker Tom Starling during the game.
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“I have had history with that kid (Salmon). I know that kid very well,” he said.
“He was a weak gutted dog as a kid and he hasn’t changed now. He is a weak gutted dog person now.”
news corp Journalist Phil Rothfield reported on NRL 360 that Stuart will likely be stood down from coaching the Raiders’ clash with the Dragons on Sunday.
“I spoke to them (the NRL) about 15 minutes ago and Ricky Stuart will not be coaching the Canberra Raiders this weekend,” Rothfield said.
“In the next 24 hours they will announce, the NRL, a one-week suspension and a $20,000 fine.”
NRL 360 co-host Paul Kent revealed Stuart had spoken to Jason King at the Integrity Unit and revealed the “personal” story behind the attack on Salmon.
“I rang the NRL today, they are aware of it and they will put their investigation together and such is the personal nature of this investigation there will be things that will not be going into the written report,” he said.
“King will speak to (Andrew) Abdo, disclose some of what’s happened, but out of respect for the personal nature of what it actually is about, it will be kept out of the written submission.
“Whether that damages Ricky in his overall fight to not get suspended, I don’t know. When I asked him about that he was prepared to live with the consequences of that.”
Rothfield confirmed that the NRL is “aware” of “all the personal details” and while Stuart has not revealed anything publicly, he “did tell the Integrity Unit every single detail.”
Rothfield added: “This is something that’s been boiling away at him for over a decade and he hasn’t been able to have closure on it. It’s his own kids from him… I’m not defending him but I’m trying to give context on what triggered what happened.
Kent, who had also heard about Stuart’s looming one-game suspension, slammed the NRL for entertaining a suspension when the investigation had not yet completed.
“The investigation is not even over yet and you’re saying — and I’ve heard the same — one game for Ricky,” he said.
“I’ve got no problem with them fining him, but to suspend him for this… (News Corp journalist) Dave Riccio was speaking on radio saying how the NRL has come out and basically for some time now has been saying coaches aren’t ‘t paying enough attention to the ends, we might need to start suspending them.
“That’s in one area, then in the second area we’ve got all these people saying this is well-beyond what anyone else has done so he needs to be suspended. The two things don’t actually correlate, yet people are marrying it up together to give him one game.
“It looks like a Kangaroo court the fact that the disciplinary hearing is not even over and we’ve all heard he’s going to get a game — it’s not even over yet.”
However, news corp journalist Michael Carayannis believes the ban is “fair.”
“I would have much rathered if Ricky confronted Jaeman after the game in the sheds and sprayed him one-on-one… but you can’t be doing that in public. He essentially slandered him — he can’t be unpunished,” Caryannis said.
“I think the one-game suspension is fair. You can’t be doing that.”
Kent reiterated that the issue for him is the suspension, to which Caryannis asked “what’s the deterrent then?”
Meanwhile, Rothfield revealed that Stuart will be the first coach to cop a one-game suspension.
“It’s never ever happened before in the game,” he said.
Originally published as NRL’s punishment for Ricky Stuart over ugly spray revealed as ‘kangaroo court’ slammed
Deaths from COVID-19 used to peak three weeks after cases, although University of NSW mathematician and pandemic modeller, associate professor James Wood, said this had been closer to two weeks with the Omicron variant, which has been dominant in Australia throughout 2022.
After cases peaked in mid-to-late July, Wood said the current wave “should have just passed [its] peak-in-mortality”.
However, with more COVID deaths occurring outside public hospitals, and so being tallied by other agencies such as births, deaths and marriages, the time when a virus death is reported by state health departments is less uniform than in earlier waves of infection.
“The level of case reporting is also not as high as it used to be, so the level of known cases relative to the number of deaths we see may not necessarily match up,” Lang said.
In February, the working group warned Australia would experience excess annual mortality, or more overall deaths from all causes than expected, in 2022, unless there was a significant reduction in cases. Lang said excess mortality was now expected.
David Muscatello, an associate professor in infectious diseases epidemiology at the University of NSW, agreed this was a foregone conclusion, mostly due to high COVID-19 deaths.
The recent wave has been driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron sub-variants, known to evade immunity gained from earlier infection or vaccination. It has also seen a higher proportion of older people catching the virus, which has affected the death toll.
Of the 164 people NSW virus deaths reported in the week ending July 30, 124 were aged 80 and over, data from NSW Health’s latest surveillance report showed. Sixty-five were in their 90s and 79 were living in residential aged care.
Old age is a risk factor for severe COVID-19.
However, the return of school has shifted the outbreak’s demographics, with NSW data showing cases now rising among 10 to 19-year-olds.
Cases in aged care also appear to have peaked: the number of homes with an active outbreak fell from 1064 to 952 last week, according to federal government weekly reports.
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“The age profile of people who are getting infected does seem to change somewhat as each [virus] lineage comes along,” Muscatello said. However, I believed the volume of cases was what was driving Australia’s death toll.
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks outside the US Capitol in Washington, US August 2, 2022.
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Want to know what the Inflation Reduction Act means for the market’s biggest companies, as well as for your wallet? When it comes to politics, you always have to follow the money – and remember that the devil is in the details.
The Senate on Aug. 7 passed the bill that’s designed to fight climate change, make significant tax changes, trim the federal deficit, cut drug prices for Medicare recipients and extend expanded health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. As it moves to the House of Representatives, the roster of the winners and losers under the bill is coming into sharper focus even before it goes to President Joe Biden.
For both winners and losers, the impact is more modest than you would think, given the sheer size of numbers being bandied about. That’s because of details like strings attached to some of the new or extended tax breaks, or the schedule for implementing Medicare’s negotiations with big pharmaceutical companies over drug prices.
Changes will be more gradual than many headlines imply.
Beginning with the biggest-dollar provisions of the ten-year package of spending and tax cuts, these are some of the effects American corporations and citizens will see from the law. The two biggest changes are the bill’s deficit reducers – just two provisions of the law that account for 80% of its $300 billion in deficit reduction, according to Moody’s Analytics.
Losers: Big tax-avoiding corporations
Members of the Patriotic Millionaires hold a federal tax filing day protest outside the apartment of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, to demand he pay his fair share of taxes, in New York City, May 17, 2021.
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The biggest provision by far of the package is the $313 billion Moody’s Analytics says will be raised over 10 years by imposing a 15% minimum tax on corporate profits for businesses that earn at least $1 billion a year.
The law also cracks down on the practice of letting companies announce one set of profit figures to investors, while using another set of numbers that include tax loopholes to show the government. This happens by applying the 15% rate to the “book rate” profits companies disclose to Wall Street, says the liberal-leaning Roosevelt Institute.
The institute says 55 big companies paid no net federal taxes in 2020, including names like Nike, Salesforce.com, Archer Daniels Midland and Fedex. They would have owed $8.5 billion in 2020 at the standard corporate tax rate of 21%, the institute said.
A report by the Center for American Progress says 19 companies in the Fortune 100 alone paid little or no tax in 2021. Among companies that paid 6% or less, as calculated by liberal-leaning think tank: Amazon, Exxon Mobil, AT&T, Bank of America, and both Ford and General Motors. All of them will likely be paying more.
Losers: Drug companies (but not as much as you think)
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The government will save $288 billion by negotiating over drug prices, Moody’s says, and that’s a win for senior citizens – but some experts say the change will be more gradual and phased in than many consumers expect.
That’s because the law will only let Medicare negotiate over a few drugs in the early years of the law’s implementation. Medicare will only be able to haggle over 10 drugs in fiscal 2026, and new drugs will not be subject to negotiation for nine to 13 years after their market introduction, said Tricia Neuman, executive director of the Program on Medicare Policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation .
“Savings are exponentially smaller than under the [2019] House bill, which covered many more drugs,” Neuman said. That bill would have let Medicare negotiate terms with 25 top drugs initially, and expanded faster.
One win for seniors is a $2,000 annual cap on their contribution to prescription spending. Most recipients now spend less, but cancer patients can easily spend $10,000 or more, according to a 2019 study. That gives Medicare recipients certainty about drug expenses, Neuman said.
The impact on companies isn’t completely clear because it’s not known yet exactly which drugs will be the first subjected to price negotiations, Neuman said. In 2020, Medicare spent more than $1 billion on each of nearly 40 drugs. Bristol Myers Squibb’s blood-clotting treatment Eliquis ($9.9 billion), Bristol Myers Squibb’s cancer treatment Revlimid ($5.4 billion), and Johnson and Johnson’s blood-clotting drug Xarelto ($4.7 billion) top the list.
What about the spending part of the bill?
Among so-called spending in the bill is actually targeted tax cuts, which the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation calls tax expenditures. One of the three biggest ones in this package, which together account for three-fourths of the $313 billion in tax breaks, is an extension of existing health-care law.
It would extend the subsidies for health insurance under Obamacare that were increased during the Covid pandemic, keeping the benefit hikes from expiring Dec. 31.
People who buy insurance through Obamacare are among the winners. An estimated $64 billion of the package will be in the form of tax credits for people who buy health insurance on Internet exchange markets like Healthcare.gov, according to Moody’s. These credits subsidize the cost of coverage for people whose employers don’t offer benefits and who make too much to be eligible for Medicaid, and were expanded in Covid relief legislation to make policies more affordable.
The provision extends the credit for three years, adding nothing to the deficit after fiscal 2026, Moody’s says. Without it, an estimated 3.1 million Americans would have lost health care coverage, estimates the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Winners: Car companies (but maybe not Tesla)
GM launched ‘EV Live,’ a free online platform that connects electric vehicle owners or consumers who have questions about zero-emissions cars and trucks with an expert who can answer them.
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The other big headlines on the “spending” side of the bill are the extension of the $7,500 consumer income tax credit for the purchase of new electric vehicles, and the addition of a new, $4,000 credit for buying a used EV. But the details of the bill make assessing short-term winners and losers complicated.
First, the bill caps the price of eligible new cars at $55,000, excluding the most popular version of Tesla’s Model 3 (as well as all Model S and X vehicles). Trucks and vans can get the credit if they cost less than $80,000. Even that’s a modest win for Tesla, which has not offered its buyers any tax credits since it used up the 200,000 credits it was allotted under existing law. Most or all vehicles from startups like Lucid Motors and Rivian are also excluded under the new bill, at least until they introduce planned cheaper models.
“The Model 3 is right on the border,” said Chris Lafakis, energy economist at Moody’s Analytics.
More crucially, the bill includes requirements for domestic manufacturing of EVs and their battery components to qualify for the extended credit. As written, the law requires that 40% of battery components be sourced from factories in the US or its free-trade agreement partners; that batteries are US made by 2029; and that Chinese components and minerals be phased out beginning in 2024.
Right now, it is not clear if any US battery plant can meet the law’s requirements. To keep the credits flowing once the law takes effect next year, the Biden administration will have to waive some provisions of the soon-to-be-approved law.
One unexpected effect of the law will be to highlight a comment Tesla CEO Elon Musk made on the EV maker’s most recent conference call, and has made before, that coming demand for EVs will make the next half-decade a great time to be an entrepreneur mining or refining the lithium that powers electric vehicle batteries. The law’s buy-American provisions will only add to those pressures.
“It is basically like minting money right now. There’s, like, software margins in lithium processing right now,” Musk said on the recent earnings call. “So I would really like to encourage, once again, entrepreneurs to enter the lithium refining business. You can’t lose.”
Winners: Utilities and homeowners
A wind farm shares space with corn fields in Latimer, Iowa, US
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About a third of the tax breaks in the bill — up to $113 billion — are to extend tax credits to encourage production of renewable electricity plants, which have four times as much share of the US market as they did a decade or so ago.
That’s a boon to utilities, which either build plants themselves or buy power from independent operators, Lafakis said. Utilities will also benefit from selling more power as electricity fuels more cars, trucks and appliances, thanks to tax breaks in the law.
More reliance on renewables should also benefit rate payers, since new wind-electricity plants are now much cheaper than new plants that burn coal or natural gas, according to the investment bank Lazard. In some cases, a new wind plant with existing tax subsidies can be cheaper than even continuing to run a coal plant that’s already in use, Lazard said.
Ratepayers who own their own homes may also claim tax credits for shifting more of their home appliances to using electricity, which can be powered by renewables, rather than natural gas. Since most makers of electric hot water heaters and stoves also make gas models, it’s not clear whether the law will cause any major shifts in market share.
“The clear winners are clean energy, solar and other renewables,” said Robert Haworth, senior investment strategy director at US Bank Wealth Management. “And it works hard to make sure there’s not too much disincentive for fossil fuels.”
Winners: Hedge funds (for now)
Losers: Public company shareholders
US Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) waits for an elevator to go to the Senate floor at the US Capitol in Washington, US August 2, 2022.
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The last minute deal with Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to gain her vote for her made Democrats drop a plan to impose ordinary income taxes on bonuses that hedge fund and venture capital managers make, closing a loophole that lets these financiers pay lower capital-gains rates on money they never put at risk.
Instead, the plan imposes a 1% tax on stock buybacks – a corporate finance tactic companies use to increase earnings per share by reducing the number of shares outstanding with excess cash.
Proponents of the buyback tax, like Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, argue that companies can put their cash to work investing more in plants and higher salaries. Opponents say it will hurt returns of retirement plans and pension funds.
Companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index spent $850 billion on buybacks last year.
Air travel in WA — including in the FIFO sector — is at risk of further severe disruption as aircraft engineers servicing Virgin Australia’s regional fleet this week joined their Qantas Group counterparts in preparing for a wave of industrial action.
A ballot of about 1000 Qantas Group engineers on their support for a potential strike in protest over their pay and conditions closes on August 10, with the union representing the workers confident it will be decisively backed in.
The West Australian has revealed the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association this week launched a second ballot of the approximately 50 technicians working at Virgin Australia Regional Airlines.
Both polls — launched after obtaining protected action orders from the Fair Work Commission — canvas “work stoppages up to 12 hours in length” and “overtime bans”.
Between them, Qantas Group — which includes Jetstar and Network Aviation — and VARA operate the vast majority of both regular passenger and FIFO flights in WA.
VARA provides FIFO services for Rio Tinto and BHP and flies between Perth and a number of regional destinations including Broome, Darwin, Kalgoorlie, Karratha, Newman and Port Hedland.
ALAEA federal secretary Steve Purvinas said engineers at both airlines had endured years of pay freezes despite larger workloads, leading to fatigue and burnout.
He said Qantas Group engineers would commence “a token move of industrial action” within the next three weeks in the hope of prompting the national carrier back to the negotiating table.
The earliest VARA engineers would be able to engage in industrial action would be seven working days after their ballot closes on September 14.
Mr Purvinas claimed the union “do not intend to structure industrial action to disrupt services”.
“Our contest is with the airline, not the public,” he said.
“To that end we can have work stoppages but offer labor via overtime to cover the deficit in work. Certain options appear on the ballot paper but that does not necessarily mean they will be used.”
It remains to be seen what impact any kind of engineering downtime would have for airlines accustomed to operating on finely-tuned schedules.
Virgin Australia did not directly address questions about whether the airline was concerned about disruption to its WA services, a spokesperson saying only that the company was aware a protected action ballot had been launched.
“We intend to continue discussions with our team members and the ALAEA to understand the issues and work towards a new enterprise agreement,” the spokesperson said.
In a previous statement, Qantas Group said it was “disappointed” the union was threatening “completely unnecessary” industrial action.
“The latest claim by the ALAEA was for a one-year agreement with a 12 per cent pay rise for Qantas engineers,” the statement said.
“That’s something we simply can’t afford and is well above wage increases for other employees across the group.”
Mr Purvinas said the 12 per cent claim equaled to 3 per cent for each of the four years engineers’ pay had been frozen.
Both Qantas and Virgin Australia made headlines for their poor performance during the winter school holidays, including hundreds of flight cancellations and widespread delays.
In June, VARA had the worst on-time performance of any airline with nearly half of all flights either delayed or cancelled.
Travelers at Perth Airport endured another evening of chaos on Tuesday after severe storms cut off power to the site and backup generators servicing the terminals failed.
That forced all outgoing flights to be canceled — wrecking the travel plans of thousands of West Australians.
ASRock is no longer an exclusive AMD partner. Just a few years after the entering the GPU business and making Radeon cards, the company has now announced its first Intel GPU, also becoming one of the first companies to do so. This card is called Challenger ITX, and it is based on Intel ARC A380 GPU.
The company announced their card is a factory-overclocked model with a GPU clock of 2250 MHz, but as it turns out this clock is actually higher in real world tests. Even in stress test Furmark (often referred to as GPU power virus), the clock speed goes as high as 2300 MHz while it is 2450 MHz in games. One should note that this would be the same frequency as GUNNIR Photon OC model. Both cards are equipped with a single 8-pin power connector, but ASRock is not confirming the TDP for its SKU.
Under full load the fan speed goes up to 1683 RPM and temperature goes up to 85°C. The board power in Furmark is 54.9W, so less than Arc A380 reference TDP of 75W.
The card was demonstrated in synthetic tests and ASRock is providing some figures. It appears that the core is invalid because it was ended prematurely, but the 3DMark software is not listing Intel’s Advanced Performance Optimizations as enabled.
ASRock Arc A380 Challenger ITX in 3DMark, Source: ASRock
ASRock also provided gaming performance for a few titles, including popular AAA titles, and modern games utilizing DirectX12 API which in most cases is well optimized for Arc architecture.
The journey Nathan and Kate Stapleton have been on this year has been devastating, heartwarming and everything in between.
The former footy star became a quadriplegic, but nothing was going to stop him from being at the birth of his second son.
Nathan and Kate’s positivity, love for one another and unbreakable bond have seen them stare down tragedy and overcome it.
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Former footy star Nathan Stapleton became a quadriplegic, but nothing was going to stop him from being at the birth of his second son. (Nine)
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“You don’t ever expect to find yourself in this situation but I’m just so proud of his determination and strength and just how strong he’s been for us,” Kate said.
Ex-Cronulla Sharks player Nathan ‘died’ for 16 minutes after breaking his neck playing rugby league.
“To be gone for 16 minutes and still to be here with my family and everything, I’m just so grateful because I still get to watch my boys grow up,” Nathan said.
“That was the scariest thing for me because I love, I love my boys and I love my wife and I didn’t want to miss out on that.”
Nathan and Kate Stapleton are each other’s rock.
They’ve been together for 15 years. They’ve shared half of their lives together. The husband and wife are inseparable.
Ex-Cronulla Sharks player Nathan ‘died’ for 16 minutes after breaking his neck playing rugby league. (Nine)
“For her to still be strong and by my side, I consider myself probably one of the luckiest men alive,” Nathan said.
It’s an extraordinary comment that shows Nathan is a lot more than a former NRL star.
I have played 61 games and scored 17 tries for the Cronulla Sharks.
He’s no stranger to injury, but never made a fuss.
After retiring from professional rugby league, Nathan and Kate got married, welcomed son Harry, and were living life happily on a farm in country New South Wales.
But on April 9 this year, their lives changed forever.
Nathan was playing his first and only game for Boorowa Goldies in West Wyalong.
Nathan and Kate Stapleton have been together for 15 years. (Nine)
“It was just like a normal, typical game I was actually enjoying, having fun. I was playing with Kate’s brother which is what we’ve always wanted to do,” he said.
But in the second half, Nathan was almost killed.
“The last thing I remember from the game was Kate’s brother’s hands on my head.” Nathan said.
“That’s when I knew something… it wasn’t good.”
His neck was broken and his spinal cord was significantly injured.
“I was pronounced dead on site,” Nathan said.
“I was gone for 16 minutes. It’s hard to think about that because everyone was thinking the worst, obviously.”
Luckily off duty nurse Louise McCabe was there.
She kept Nathan alive until an ambulance arrived.
“If she wasn’t there, I wouldn’t be here to tell the story,” Nathan said.
Kate was seven months pregnant.
At the hospital, she was told to prepare for the worst.
“They advised me that it was highly likely that Nathan was going to have severe brain damage, which for me was worse than any of his neck fractures,” Kate said.
But Nathan wasn’t going anywhere without a fight.
“When I finally came out of sedation and realized what was going on, it was tough,” Nathan said.
“Early on I just thought I was in a bad dream. I woke up and I thought, ‘this isn’t happening.”
Nathan’s mind was intact – but he was paralyzed from the shoulders down.
“The doctors came around and basically said, ‘you’re not going to have any movement. You’re not going to be able to walk again,'” he said.
“It’s something that no one wants to hear, so it was like my worst nightmare had come…reality.
“And then obviously seeing Kate and seeing my family come down and everyone being so upset as well, because everything was so fresh.”
However, Kate said she was relieved, her personality remained the same.
“Even though he was so highly sedated, the fact that he could say a couple of things and he was still getting really pissed off in situations. I was like, ‘it’s still Nath’ and it was such a relief,” she said.
Nathan’s mind was intact – but he was paralyzed from the shoulders down after the accident. (Nine)
But Nathan was grieving his body and his former life.
He said he was faced with a decision.
“I had to make a choice. I could either sit here and feel sorry for myself and bring everyone down with me, or suck it up, accept it for what it is and focus on the things that I can do,” Nathan said.
And that included being at the birth of their second son just weeks later.
“My biggest fear, obviously, was not having Nath there,” Kate said.
So Nathan’s ICU team at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital and the adjoining Royal Hospital for Women moved mountains to make that happen.
“It’s about his dignity and their whole experience as a family,” Clinical Nurse Consultant Steph Rhodes, said.
Rhodes planned the massive team effort, making sure staff and equipment would be available to get Nathan into the birth suite when Kate went into labour.
“I’ve worked in ICU for about 10 years and I’ve never even heard of this kind of thing happening and to be honest, it’s not really a situation that arises too often, it’s a pretty remarkable and pretty rare situation,” Steph said.
Photographer Alisia Mason, from Sydney Birth Stories captured the incredible birth on camera.
The footage shows Nathan whispering words of encouragement to his wife while she was in labour.
“Through your nose out through your mouth darling, nice and slow, that’s it,” Nathan says.
Footage shows Nathan whispering words of encouragement to his wife while she was in labour, before meeting his new son. (Nine)
“Just breathe through it. You’ve got this darl.”
Kate delivered little Angus and he was placed on Nathan’s chest.
The couple say he’s their good luck baby.
“We’re very thankful and blessed that we could be there together at birth and it’s something that we’ll never forget,” Nathan said.
But with the miracle moment came mixed emotions.
“It’s hard because the one thing you want to do when you’re having your second child is to comfort your wife physically, hold her hand, but I just couldn’t do it,” Nathan said.
“I got to witness the whole thing and I still got to hold my own boy, and I still got to kiss my wife and tell her how amazing she was. It was bittersweet.”
He said his wife is “incredible.”
Nathan and Kate wanted to thank all those who made it possible for him to be at the birth.
The incredible experience wasn’t lost on the dedicated angels around them either.
“I can’t be prouder. As a nurse manager of my team, they’re outstanding,” ICU nurse manager Megan Pinfold said.
“The birth of Angus was such an amazing uplifting moment for the whole unit. Everyone stepped up and went above and beyond.”
Pinfold says the full extent of Nathan’s injury won’t be known for another year, but that his pre-injury health and mental strength, is making a world of difference.
“We definitely do think that his pre-injury fitness was superb and on top of that he was working as a farmer as well,” she said.
However he is likely to be on a ventilator forever.
Nathan’s now getting used to his new wheelchair, which he controls with his chin, and his laptop which he commands with facial expressions and voice to text.
The family’s looking forward to eventually getting him out of hospital, and back to the country.
Toddler Harry has also adapted better than they ever expected to dad being in hospital.
Nathan and Kate wanted to thank all those who made it possible for him to be at the birth. (Nine)
“I think the question was, ‘why is Dad in bed?’ and ‘why is he here? What are all these tubes on Dad?’ Nathan said.
“But now over time, it’s just normal and it’s so beautiful because for a toddler to understand that dad’s okay, and that means the world to me.”
Nathan’s outlook remains positive.
“The injury, we can’t change it. It is what it is,” he said.
“No one wants to be where I’m sitting but at the end of the day there’s so much to look forward to.
“I’ve got a beautiful wife, I’ve got two beautiful boys and I’m blessed I can still be there for them.”
“It is going to be different and don’t get me wrong, there’s still good and bad days to come – it is a rollercoaster ride but we’re still blessed we can still bring our boys up together.”
Kate said the wheelchair isn’t an issue for her, all she wants is Nathan by her side.
“I’m so proud of him. It’s been an emotional rollercoaster to be honest,” she said.
“If I’ve Nathan and his personality, that’s all, all I care about so we’re good.” she said.
An online fundraiser has been set up to support Nathan’s recovery.
The Cronulla Sharks are auctioning players’ worn jerseys, and details can be found on the team’s website.
The Sharks are also teaming up with Flow Athletic for a yoga and silent disco fundraiser, Flow After Dark on September 7 at Pointsbet Stadium
Nathan and Kate say they couldn’t have got to this point without the support of the community and their loved ones.
They have a long list of people they’d like to thank, including their families and friends, the Cronulla Sharks, Rugby Australia, and the Boorowa and Tenterfield communities.
The mother who pulled her unconscious son from a car and cradled him on a busy north-west Melbourne roadside has been reunited with the good Samaritan couple who rushed to help her.
Key points:
Madeleine Crawford’s child had a seizure on the way to hospital on August 3
Thi and Cindy Le assisted in getting him there but the group did not exchange details
They were all reunited after Ms Crawford put the call out through ABC Radio Melbourne
Madeleine Crawford, and 20-month-old Stirling, met Thi and Cindy Le of North Sunshine at an emotional weekend reunion.
It was the first time they had come together since Ms Crawford put out a call to find them so she could finally say thank you.
Suffering a fever, chesty cough and struggling to breathe, Stirling was being driven by Ms Crawford to the Royal Children’s Hospital emergency department on August 3 when he started having a seizure in the back seat.
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A clean bill of health
Desperate for help, Ms Crawford pulled over on the corner of Churchill Avenue and Ballarat Road in Maidstone, grabbed Stirling from the back seat, and stepped onto the median strip.
Ms Le and her husband had been driving only a few vehicles behind and did not hesitate after spotting Ms Crawford gesturing wildly at passing traffic.
“I immediately knew something was wrong,” she said.
“I didn’t know what else to do so I told Madeleine I’d hold baby Stirling while she drives to the closest hospital.
“Thankfully my husband was a quick thinker and drove in front with hazard lights on to escort us to the hospital safely.”
They made it to Footscray Hospital where Ms Crawford ran inside and Stirling was immediately triaged by the nurses.
Reunited via radio
There was no time to exchange details.
Ms Le said when the pair arrived home, she could not stop thinking about what had happened.
“As a mother myself, I knew how distressing it would’ve been to have experienced that,” she said.
“But I would never have thought Madeleine would try to find us. I just did what I could at the time to help.”
Both families were reunited on Sunday after Ms Crawford put out the call to find them via ABC Radio Melbourne.
“It was incredible to be able to express our gratitude in person,” Ms Crawford said.
“It was a very special afternoon — lots of hugs and smiles.”
Ms Crawford wanted to thank the couple who came to her aid.(Supplied: Madeleine Crawford)
A clean bill of health
Stirling was diagnosed with respiratory syncytial virus but has since been issued a clean bill of health.
Ms Crawford said it was his seizure that had caught her off guard and urged other parents to learn how to respond to a similar situation.
In a twist, the Le family revealed their own granddaughter, Aria, had been through a similar experience only months ago.
Their daughter, Anita, had phoned them for help after her sick toddler started having a seizure.
According to the Victorian government, about one in every 20 children between six months and six years old will experience a febrile seizure while suffering a high fever. While alarming, it is not epilepsy and it does not cause brain damage.
“It is absolutely terrifying if it happens to your child,” Ms Crawford said.
“I would recommend parents read the guidance so they can be as prepared as they can if or when it happens.”
DENVER (KDVR) — Interstate 70 was closed in both directions between York and Steele due to flooding.
FOX31’s Gabby Easterwood was on a scene on I-70 right before the Brighton Boulevard exit where the road was completely flooded. Water rescues were underground.
According to Denver Fire, at I-70 and York, 11 people needed assistance getting out of their cars. Over on 38th and Blake, the crew was working to help eight people.
Interstate 70 before the Brighton exit was completely flooded. (KDVR)
Interstate 70 before the Brighton exit was completely flooded. (KDVR)
Interstate 70 before the Brighton exit was completely flooded. (KDVR)
Drivers stuck on the highway said they had been there for more than an hour. Multiple cars were at a standstill as water levels rose after a strong storm moved down the Interstate 25 corridor.
At 10 pm, I-70 was reopened in both directions.
Gerald Louis, one of those drivers who had to abandoned his vehicle says it was a scary scene. He says he was in waters he felt safe to drive in, but a semi-truck passed by him as he was in the waters. That truck pushing him into deeper waters. “We had to wait for the fire department to get there And pull us out of the water and when they came, they got us all out and just said hey now you’re on your own.” Louis said “It was pretty bad and I have a bunch of stuff in that vehicle that I figure But I’m gonna lose and I gotta figure out a way to get home now.”
This is a developing story and will be updated as information becomes available.
Sydney’s commuters face major disruptions to rail services on Wednesday, after the state’s train operators warned that key rail lines between central Sydney and Wollongong will be shut down for six hours in response to a planned strike.
In advice late on Monday, Sydney Trains and NSW Trains said services would not run between 10am and 4pm on Wednesday on the T4 Eastern and Illawarra, and South Coast lines. The lines connect Bondi Junction in Sydney’s east to Bombaderry, south of Wollongong.
The operators have also advised that some Sydney Trains and intercity services may be canceled or run to a reduced timetable during other parts of the day.
Trains will not operate on the Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra lines for six hours on Wednesday.Credit:Dominic Lorrimer
The looming disruption comes despite Premier Dominic Perrottet and Transport Minister David Elliott holding discussions with the head of the rail union on Monday. The two sides remain locked in a standoff over modifications to the state’s intercity train fleet, and a new pay deal.
Rail Tram and Bus Union secretary Alex Claassens said management’s decision to shut down the lines for six hours was a “disgraceful response” to rail workers’ protected industrial action, which had been deliberately designed to ensure services could continue to run.
“There is absolutely no reason for the Illawarra line to be shut down on Wednesday. The protected industrial action being taken by rail workers will, by design, impact very few workers at any one time,” he said.
Last week, the union announced escalating industrial action this month, which will disrupt various rail lines and culminate in a refusal to operate foreign-built trains on August 31. Foreign-built trains make up about three-quarters of the state’s rail fleet.
The state’s transport agency said the planned stoppage on Wednesday would disrupt commuters throughout the day, including in the morning and evening travel peaks, due to fewer services, delays and changes to stopping patterns across the rail network.
“While the union action officially starts at 10am, our customers will start to feel the effects from around 6am,” it said. “Although all staff will return to work at 4pm, customers will need to allow plenty of extra time while trains return to the network.”
Back in July, Samsung confirmed it would hold a big announcement event in the form of a new Galaxy Unpacked livestream in August. Well, August is here now, so that means you need to put this new Unpacked stream on your calendar and figure out how to watch it.
Great news: It’s easy!
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2022 will take place on Aug. 10 at 9 am ET/6 am PT. You can watch it on:
We don’t know for sure yet what Samsung plans on showing, but all signs indicate at least one new foldable device. A recent leak pointed to the existence of follow-ups to last year’s Galaxy ZFold 3 and Z Flip 3 phones. Additionally, the official marketing text on Samsung’s website in advance of the event reads “A new way to flex is coming.”
Yeah, the hint isn’t subtle.
This event is taking place almost exactly one year to the day since the unpacked event where those two older foldables were unveiled. Samsung also showed off new additions to its galaxy-watch and Galaxy Buds lines at the same stream, so updates to those devices could show up at the new Unpacked, as well.
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The only other prediction we can make right now is that, as always with foldables, don’t be surprised if the price tags are pretty hefty.
