Several of the game’s superstars were rumored to be switching teams ahead of Monday’s transfer deadline – but in the end, August 1 came and went with minimal fuss.
There is talk that the June 30 deadline will return, giving clubs one less month to finalize their rosters.
This seems like a logical step to take when you consider the COVID-19 related aspects of why the deadline was changed in the first place.
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Plenty have criticized the deadline being just a month before the end of the regular season, including Darren Lockyer and Phil Gould.
Oliver Gildart will join the Roosters until the end of the season. (Getty)
Three premiership hopefuls bolstered their squads for the final weeks of the season, with Matt Lodge signing until the end of the year with the Sydney Roosters and Oliver Gildart moving there on loan, just days after his Tigers teammate David Nofoaluma did likewise with the Melbourne Storm .
Daniel Suluka-Fifita completed a permanent move back to the South Sydney Rabbitohs, after the Roosters released him.
While the latter has already had an impact in the red and green, playing three first grade games (as has Lodge in the tricolours), we’ll have to wait to see what either Gildart or Nofoaluma do in their temporary homes.
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The Roosters needed some depth after a season-ending knee injury to Billy Smith, and English international Gildart will likely challenge Paul Momirovski for the final spot in a backline that also includes James Tedesco, Joseph Manu, Daniel Tupou and Joseph Suaalii.
Melbourne’s outside back crisis has been well documented, and the arrival of Nofoaluma will help cover for the losses of Reimis Smith, George Jennings, and Ryan Papnhuyzen, all of whom won’t play again until 2023 – while Nick Meaney and Xavier Coates are nursing niggles as well.
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But it’s interesting to note some of the mooted transfers that didn’t get off the ground – some of which were far more high-profile.
Parramatta was hopeful of securing either David Klemmer or Martin Taupau before the deadline, and either potential move was somewhat eyebrow-raising given the Eels’ relatively clean bill of health, but both could have made an impact down the stretch.
Neither transfer eventuated, nor did the Storm’s rumored approaches for Reece Walsh, Josh Addo-Carr or Adam Doueihi – and when you consider the quality of those players, perhaps it’s better for the integrity of the competition that they didn’t.
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Washington— A federal judge on Monday sentenced Guy Reffitt, the Texas man convicted of bringing a handgun to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, to 87 months in prison, the longest sentence so far related to the 2021 assault.
A member of the far-right militia group the Texas Three Percenters, Reffitt was the first defendant to stand trial on charges stemming from the attack. He was found guilty in March of five criminal counts, including obstructing Congress’ certification of President Biden’s Electoral College win.
The 7.25-year sentence was far shorter than the 15 years sought by prosecutors, who argued that the punishment should be more severe since Reffitt’s actions amounted to terrorism. At a sentencing hearing on Monday in federal court in Washington, DC, Judge Dabney Friedrich disagreed, citing another Jan. 6 cases in which prosecutors did not seek such an enhancement.
Still, the sentence is the lengthiest handed down for a Jan. 6 defendant to date. Two other defendants received sentences of 63 months earlier this year for their roles in the attack. Reffitt’s defense team had urged the judge to sentence him to no more than two years behind bars.
Reffitt will also be on probation for three years upon his release, and must pay a $2,000 fine.
Addressing the court during Monday’s hearing, Reffitt admitted he acted like a “f***ing idiot” on Jan. 6 and said he regretted his actions, apologizing to Congress and the officers he encountered that day.
Guy Refitt addresses a federal judge in Washington, DC, on Monday, August 1, 2022, ahead of his sentencing for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
William J. Hennessy, Jr.
“I was a little too crazy,” he said to a skeptical Friedrich. “I was not thinking clearly.”
The judge said it was difficult not to see the apology as anything but “halfhearted,” particularly given some conspiratorial statements he has made about the events of Jan. 6 since his arrest.
“What he and others who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 did is the antithesis of patriotism,” the judge said before handing down the sentence.
In seeking the lengthier sentence, prosecutors said in court filings that Reffitt played a central role as part of the mob on Jan. 6, and intended “to use his gun and police-style flexicuffs to forcibly drag legislators out of the building and take over Congress.”
Assistant US Attorney Jeffrey Nestler told Friedrich that Reffitt “puffed himself up” as the leader of the mob, waving the rest of the rioters on as he confronted police on the Capitol’s west front.
“He didn’t just want President Trump to stay in power,” Nestler said. “He wanted to physically and literally remove Congress.”
The prosecutor alleged that Jan. 6 was “the beginning” for Reffitt. “He wanted the rest of his militia group to start taking over state capitols all around the country,” Nestler said.
Former US Capitol Police Officer Shauni Kerkhoff, who confronted Reffitt outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, implored the judge to sentence Reffitt to the maximum sentence possible under the law.
“His actions weren’t acts of patriotism. They were acts of domestic terrorism,” Kerkhoff said.
Prosecutors said Reffitt also threatened his children when they wanted to report him to authorities.
At his trial, Reffitt’s 19-year-old son Jackson — who turned his father in to law enforcement — told the jury that he had learned of his father’s membership in the mob when he saw his mother and sister watching news coverage of the events that day. jackson described the threat his dad had made against him and his sister, Peyton, when they tried to turn him in: “If you turn me in you’re a traitor, and traitors get shot.”
In court on Monday, prosecutors read a letter from Jackson to the judge, in which he described the “painful, slow story” of his father’s descent into conspiracy theories. He said his father needed mental health care, which Friedrich said she would require as part of the sentence.
During the trial, Reffitt’s attorney at the time called no witnesses, and Reffitt did not testify in his own defense.
F. Clinton Broden, Reffitt’s new attorney, disagreed with prosecutors’ characterization of his client. He argued in written memos and in court that Reffitt never actually entered the Capitol, never removed the handgun from his holster and “never gave any indication he would actually harm his children.”
Peyton, the defendant’s daughter, spoke emotionally in court on Monday in support of her father and explained that his mental health was a real issue.
Wiping away tears, Peyton said, “My father’s name wasn’t on the flags that were there that day, that everyone was carrying. It was another man’s name,” referring to former President Donald Trump, who addressed his throngs of supporters near the White House before they marched on the Capitol.
Friedrich, the judge, appeared most concerned with Reffitt’s mental health and prospects once he is eventually freed, at one point asking, “What is this man going to do after he is released from prison?”
“It’s really disturbing that he repeatedly persists with these views that are way outside the mainstream,” she added, “His claims [about attempts to overthrow the government] are wrong.”
Friedrich also took issue with Reffitt’s violent threats against lawmakers like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
“To this day, he has not disavowed those comments,” she said.
Since Reffitt’s conviction by a 12-person jury, five more defendants have been found guilty by juries. Five others have been convicted by judges at bench trials. One defendant, matthew martinwas acquitted of multiple misdemeanor counts by a judge.
Outside of court on Monday, before the sentence was imposed, Reffitt’s wife Nicole told CBS News she believed prosecutors’ representation of her husband was a “misrepresentation.”
PlayStation owner Sony Interactive Entertainment believes that Microsoft’s upcoming Activision Blizzard acquisition – and ownership of the Call Of Duty franchise – may inspire users to switch consoles.
Sony made the statement in response to Brazil’s own regulatory body, which published documents online concerning its investigation into the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard (via ResetEra and VGC).
The regulatory body asked for an opinion on the acquisition from a number of companies like Ubisoft, Warner Bros and Riot Games, with Sony’s answers published here.
In the document (translated via Google), Sony says it’s comparatively very difficult for companies to create best-selling rival franchises to the likes of Call Of Duty and FIFAadding that there are few developers or publishers capable of producing Triple-A games and long-running franchises outside of Activision.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Credit: Infinity Ward
The Brazilian regulators then asked for Sony’s opinion on whether or not Activision have any close competitors with its franchises, to which the company responded:
“Activision’s Call Of Duty is an essential game: a “blockbuster”, an AAA-like game that has no rival. According to a 2019 study: “The importance of Call Of Duty to entertainment in general is indescribable. The brand was the only video game IP to break into the top 10 of all entertainment brands among fanatics, joining powerhouses like starwars, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings.”
“Call Of Duty influences users’ choice of console and its network of loyal users is so ingrained that even if a competitor had the budget to develop a similar product, it wouldn’t be able to compete,” added Sony.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Credit: Infinity Ward.
Sony was then asked what factors would make it difficult for a franchise of that scaleto be replaced or find competition from other developers:
“Call Of Duty generates strong connections with players. The franchise’s memorable narratives and characters lead to a rich gameplay experience and its long history has created an unparalleled level of familiarity.
“Activision has published Call Of Duty titles every year since 2003,” Sony continued. “Players have become familiar with the game’s setup and mechanics. They’ve honed their skills in the game’s multiplayer over the years, striving to climb to the top of the leaderboards.
Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Credit: Activision.
“There’s even a sports space just for Call Of Duty. the Call Of Duty League – with prizes for winners running into the millions. To say the least, players would hardly switch to alternative games as they would lose that familiarity, those skills, and even the friends they made while playing the game.”
Whilst Sony’s concerns about Microsoft acquiring Activisionmay be justified, Microsoft itself made it clear earlier this year that it intends to keep the franchise on PlayStation and available across different platforms.
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News that Fernando Alonso will join Aston Martin for the 2023 Formula 1 season goes a long way to completing next year’s grid.
Alonso was a central figure in the silly season, with the 41-year-old expected to remain with Alpine for another two seasons.
That stability was expected to see Oscar Piastri forced to find a berth elsewhere, with Williams the most likely option.
Monday’s announcement means that it is now not the case and, barring official confirmation, we can safely assume the Aussie will slot into the seat vacated by Alonso.
There is, in reality, no other choice for Alpine – to do anything else would totally undermine the very existence of its driver academy.
With Esteban Ocon on a long-term deal, the Enstone squad’s line up for 2023 is therefore complete.
And so it joins the likes of Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes, and McLaren with confirmed pairings going into next season.
Despite rumors and constant speculation surrounding Daniel Ricciardo, there is little to no chance of the Australian being moved aside.
There could always be a shock move – it’s often said contracts in Formula 1 come with lubrication – but in reality, there are no drivers on the market who could parachute in and do a better job.
Elsewhere, there are a number of other teams yet to confirm their line-ups, though much can be inferred from their current form and attitudes.
Aston Martin, for instance, has never formally stated what the duration of Lance Stroll’s contract is, but it can safely be assumed he will continue driving for the team owned by his father next season.
At Scuderia AlphaTauri, Team Principal Franz Tost has suggested that Yuki Tsunoda will get a third year in Formula 1 as he continues his development.
It’s fair to take that on face value too, as there is also nobody currently on the Red Bull conveyor belt ready to replace the at-times wild Japanese driver.
Similarly at Alfa Romeo Sauber, Valtteri Bottas is on a long-term deal while Guanyu Zhou is almost certain to retain his seat.
The Chinese driver has performed well enough and the team, most notably Fred Vasseur, its Team Principal, is happy with how the rookie has progressed.
The same can be said of Haas, where Mick Schumacher has bounced back from a rocky start to the 2022 campaign, scoring points in Silverstone and Red Bull Ring.
Though he earned the scorn of Guenther Steiner at times, the relationship there remains positive and, besides, there is seemingly nobody in the market applying pressure to the German.
Kevin Magnussen in the other car has a deal until at least the end of 2023, having been signed on to a ‘multi-year’ contract when he rejoined the squad in place of Nikita Mazepin.
And so it leaves Williams, which has Alex Albon on the books for next year and seemingly the only seat with any serious question marks on it.
Nicholas Latifi has been under pressure for some time, with suggestions earlier in the season Piastri could replace him mid-year.
The team has thrown its support behind him for now, though the Canadian’s contract is up at the end of the year, and there is no shortage of promising youngsters available with links to the team or its technical partner, Mercedes.
Chief among them, though hardly a youngster, is Nyck de Vries, who was linked with the seat now filled by Albon a year ago.
The Dutchman is a Mercedes contracted driver and won last year’s Formula E world championship, a competition he’s continued to compete in this year.
He’s also had a Free Practice 1 outing with Williams in Spain, and was in action for Mercedes at Paul Ricard last month.
With Mercedes pulling out of Formula E at the end of the current campaign, the talented 27-year-old is seemingly without a job – though he has been linked with a move into the World Endurance Championship with Toyota.
The other possibility is Logan Sargeant, the American Formula 2 racer who has enjoyed something of a breakout season.
However, he is currently ineligible for a superlicence and will only qualify for one if he finishes this year’s F2 campaign in the top five.
While that’s a reasonable expectation, it is not guaranteed, so while he may be one the team is keeping an eye on, it feels premature to suggest he’s ready for Formula 1 just yet – give him another year.
The most likely outcome therefore seems to be de Vries slotting into the car alongside Albon, a move that would all but complete the 2023 driver line-up.
Washington— A federal judge on Monday sentenced Guy Reffitt, the Texas man convicted of bringing a handgun to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, to 87 months in prison, the longest sentence so far related to the 2021 assault.
A member of the far-right militia group the Texas Three Percenters, Reffitt was the first defendant to stand trial on charges stemming from the attack. He was found guilty in March of five criminal counts, including obstructing Congress’ certification of President Biden’s Electoral College win.
The 7.25-year sentence was far shorter than the 15 years sought by prosecutors, who argued that the punishment should be more severe since Reffitt’s actions amounted to terrorism. At a sentencing hearing on Monday in federal court in Washington, DC, Judge Dabney Friedrich disagreed, citing another Jan. 6 cases in which prosecutors did not seek such an enhancement.
Still, the sentence is the lengthiest handed down for a Jan. 6 defendant to date. Two other defendants received sentences of 63 months earlier this year for their roles in the attack. Reffitt’s defense team had urged the judge to sentence him to no more than two years behind bars.
Reffitt will also be on probation for three years upon his release, and must pay a $2,000 fine.
Addressing the court during Monday’s hearing, Reffitt admitted he acted like a “f***ing idiot” on Jan. 6 and said he regretted his actions, apologizing to Congress and the officers he encountered that day.
Guy Refitt addresses a federal judge in Washington, DC, on Monday, August 1, 2022, ahead of his sentencing for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
William J. Hennessy, Jr.
“I was a little too crazy,” he said to a skeptical Friedrich. “I was not thinking clearly.”
The judge said it was difficult not to see the apology as anything but “halfhearted,” particularly given some conspiratorial statements he has made about the events of Jan. 6 since his arrest.
“What he and others who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 did is the antithesis of patriotism,” the judge said before handing down the sentence.
In seeking the lengthier sentence, prosecutors said in court filings that Reffitt played a central role as part of the mob on Jan. 6, and intended “to use his gun and police-style flexicuffs to forcibly drag legislators out of the building and take over Congress.”
Assistant US Attorney Jeffrey Nestler told Friedrich that Reffitt “puffed himself up” as the leader of the mob, waving the rest of the rioters on as he confronted police on the Capitol’s west front.
“He didn’t just want President Trump to stay in power,” Nestler said. “He wanted to physically and literally remove Congress.”
The prosecutor alleged that Jan. 6 was “the beginning” for Reffitt. “He wanted the rest of his militia group to start taking over state capitols all around the country,” Nestler said.
Former US Capitol Police Officer Shauni Kerkhoff, who confronted Reffitt outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, implored the judge to sentence Reffitt to the maximum sentence possible under the law.
“His actions weren’t acts of patriotism. They were acts of domestic terrorism,” Kerkhoff said.
Prosecutors said Reffitt also threatened his children when they wanted to report him to authorities.
At his trial, Reffitt’s 19-year-old son Jackson — who turned his father in to law enforcement — told the jury that he had learned of his father’s membership in the mob when he saw his mother and sister watching news coverage of the events that day. jackson described the threat his dad had made against him and his sister, Peyton, when they tried to turn him in: “If you turn me in you’re a traitor, and traitors get shot.”
In court on Monday, prosecutors read a letter from Jackson to the judge, in which he described the “painful, slow story” of his father’s descent into conspiracy theories. He said his father needed mental health care, which Friedrich said she would require as part of the sentence.
During the trial, Reffitt’s attorney at the time called no witnesses, and Reffitt did not testify in his own defense.
F. Clinton Broden, Reffitt’s new attorney, disagreed with prosecutors’ characterization of his client. He argued in written memos and in court that Reffitt never actually entered the Capitol, never removed the handgun from his holster and “never gave any indication he would actually harm his children.”
Peyton, the defendant’s daughter, spoke emotionally in court on Monday in support of her father and explained that his mental health was a real issue.
Wiping away tears, Peyton said, “My father’s name wasn’t on the flags that were there that day, that everyone was carrying. It was another man’s name,” referring to former President Donald Trump, who addressed his throngs of supporters near the White House before they marched on the Capitol.
Friedrich, the judge, appeared most concerned with Reffitt’s mental health and prospects once he is eventually freed, at one point asking, “What is this man going to do after he is released from prison?”
“It’s really disturbing that he repeatedly persists with these views that are way outside the mainstream,” she added, “His claims [about attempts to overthrow the government] are wrong.”
Friedrich also took issue with Reffitt’s violent threats against lawmakers like Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
“To this day, he has not disavowed those comments,” she said.
Since Reffitt’s conviction by a 12-person jury, five more defendants have been found guilty by juries. Five others have been convicted by judges at bench trials. One defendant, matthew martinwas acquitted of multiple misdemeanor counts by a judge.
Outside of court on Monday, before the sentence was imposed, Reffitt’s wife Nicole told CBS News she believed prosecutors’ representation of her husband was a “misrepresentation.”
A Devil Immortal player seems to have lost access to player vs player (PvP) game modes in the title after spending over £80,000 ($100,000) in the free-to-play role-playing game.
YouTuber and streamer jtisallbusiness has claimed that after spending a massive amount of money on upgrading their character, they’re unable to gain access to any PvP games.
They said that they spent between “48 to 72 hours” queuing for a battlegrounds match, but every attempt to do so resulted in them being unable to find a game (via PCGamesN).
In a recent YouTube video, the streamer explained they are considering attempting a refund of their total spending or calling in lawyers to help with the situation.
“I can’t do things that I spent money on this character to do, and I have no time frame of when things are going to actually be fixed, or even know if things are going to be fixed because I am the only player in the entire world with this problem,” they said.
Jtisallbusiness said that they have tried contracting Blizzard through the official forums and on Twitter, but only received a reply saying it was “aware of the issue.”
The content creator and their clan also recently won the Rite of Exile battle on their server and are being repeatedly prompted to “prepare to defend their reign” by playing battlegrounds, but jtisallbusiness is unable to do so.
Immortal Devil. Credit: Blizzard Entertainment
Their clan is also expected to defend its reign on their server, but when jtisallbusiness travels to the Rite of Exile entrance to register the clan, they can’t join or schedule a PvP match. If their clan ca n’t be registered in time for the Rite of Exile, their rivals will face NPCs instead – meaning jtisallbusiness and his clan could possible lose the crown.
Jtisallbusiness is also unable to leave the clan or pass leadership over to another member. They speculate that of the clan’s 300 members, around 30 and 40 have spent roughly £814 ($1,000) upgrading their characters.
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Retired AFL premiership star Tom Boyd has opened up about the crippling panic attacks that contributed to his retirement from football and revealed how he charmed the love of his life.
In a wide-ranging interview, Boyd spoke with A Current Affair ahead of the release of his new book Nowhere to Hide.
Boyd was the #1 pick in the 2013 AFL draft, taken by the Greater Western Sydney Giants.
Retired AFL premiership star Tom Boyd has opened up about the crippling panic attacks that contributed to his retirement from football and revealed how he charmed the love of his life. (Nine)
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After just one season at GWS, Boyd received a history-making offer from the Western Bulldogs, guaranteeing him $7 million over seven years.
“At that exact moment in time, I was 18 years old, pretty uncertain about how I was going to translate that at the top level. Super uncertain about my own capabilities and I get a life-changing offer that just about knocked me off my chair,” Boyd recalled.
Joining the Bulldogs for the 2015 season, Boyd began to experience sleeplessness and anxiety. (Nine)
Joining the Bulldogs for the 2015 season, Boyd began to experience sleeplessness and anxiety.
“I was barely sleeping before a game. The fear was (driven by) my desire to do well, the pressure and responsibility I felt to play well, what I expected of myself, but also the fatigue I was facing after really not sleeping, Boyd said.
Few knew of his personal struggles at the time, especially as his stint with the Bulldogs would also bring with it periods of happiness and great success.
Boyd starred for the Bulldogs in their 2016 AFL grand final win.
“It’s something that to this day puts a massive smile on my face,” Boyd remembers.
Boyd and Von Moger first met as toddlers. Their families had neighboring properties on Victoria’s Surf Coast. (Nine)
But as another AFL season beckoned, he began to experience panic attacks.
The first occurred as he drove to training, forcing him to pull over.
“I thought I was having a heart attack. I thought I was going to die,” Boyd said.
“With all the millions of thoughts running through my mind at this stage, I was lucky that the one that stuck was, ‘Hey, I need help’.”
Boyd began to seek treatment with a psychologist, while also receiving support from his now-fiancée, Anna Von Moger.
“It was really difficult to watch him struggle during that period of time,” Von Moger told A Current Affair.
During his sixth year in the AFL system, Boyd came to a life-changing decision.
He would announce his retirement at the age of 23.
“It was really, ‘I don’t enjoy this anymore. It’s not that I’m depressed or sad or angry. I’ve dealt with my issues,'” Boyd said.
Boyd has since committed himself to sharing his story to help others.
He’s passionate about increasing our understanding of mental health and wellness.
“What I found was that hanging on didn’t work. It made me less capable. What actually made me more resilient was going, ‘I don’t have all the answers. I need the support and the access to the collective wisdom of others,'” Boyd said.
Boyd recently became a father when he and Von Moger welcomed their first daughter, Armani, three months ago.
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Boyd and Von Moger first met as toddlers.
During his sixth year in the AFL system, Boyd came to a life-changing decision. He would announce his retirement from him at the age of 23. (Nine)
Their families had neighboring properties on Victoria’s Surf Coast.
But their romance began almost two decades later when he reached out online.
“I remember him sending me a message saying, ‘Hey Anna, not sure if you remember me or not, it’s Tom from next door,'” Von Moger recollects with a smile.
“Then you mustered up the courage to ask me on a date,” Von Moger continued, as Boyd blushed.
The pair intended to wed in December.
Boyd began writing Nowhere to Hide during COVID-19.
He hopes his story resonates with readers and encourages others to speak out if they are struggling.
Boyd asked anyone touched by his story to consider supporting Lifeline.
Nowhere to Hide: A memoir of football, mental health and resilienceis available now from Allen and Unwin.
Losing her leg to cancer was a traumatic enough experience for Anthea Corbett — but having no home to recover in made things much worse from a psychological and emotional perspective.
Key points:
The StayWitch’s program offers beds for homeless people leaving hospital
It aims to ensure they don’t end up back in hospital soon after being discharged
StayWitch is based on a program having some success in Boston
“It was hard because, you know, the same time, when you’re homeless, you just want to stay alive,” she said.
“Basically, you’ve got to protect yourself and you got to be careful, because some people are rough, especially guys, when it comes to a woman being homeless.”
A new Perth program is offering respite for homeless people who have just come out of hospital, addressing the “revolving door” issue that sees them struggle to recover on the streets.
The respite center caters for homeless people leaving hospital.(ABC News: David Weber )
Inspired by how the US city of Boston, Massachusetts tackles health care for the homeless, an old backpacker accommodation in Northbridge has been transformed into a short-stay facility for homeless people who have been discharged from hospital.
The Medical Respite Center is funded by the Department of Health with philanthropic support and offers 20 medical and 10 non-medical beds, providing a safe place to sleep and recover and helping connect people with health care services and support to get housing and accommodation.
homeless people die younger
Homeless Healthcare chief executive Andrew Davies, who initiated the set up of the StayWitch’s service, said the interaction between health and homelessness was “huge.”
“We’re finding that the average age of death is about 48 years old, which is incredibly poor when you compare it to the mainstream community,” he said.
“Being homeless is the biggest factor.
“It’s very hard when you’re living a chaotic life on the streets to manage your chronic illnesses and so they get neglected and people gradually deteriorate and don’t do so well.”
Dr Davies said the pilot program’s success had exceeded expectations.
“Basically, it really seemed to fill that need that I saw amongst my patients, where people were being discharged from hospital too early for them to be managing on the streets, which, of course, then ended up with them going back to hospital even sicker than they were the first time,” he said.
Homeless Healthcare’s Zoe Thebaud and Dr Andrew Davies at the Northbridge home that is a respite center for people just released from hospital.(ABC News: David Weber)
Respite center director of residential services Zoe Thebaud said the program had already made inroads.
“The point of this place is to kind of slow down the care, let people come, rest, recover from the hospital admission first,” she said.
Zoe Thebaud says people often end up back in hospital soon after being discharged. (ABC News: Kate Leaver)
“We’ve had people return to work. We’ve supported people into NDIS packages, supported people into accommodation with things set up so that they can actually stay out of hospitals.”
Boston originator welcomes Perth initiative
Dr Davies was inspired by Boston’s Dr Jim O’Connell, who is the keynote speaker at a Housing and Health Symposium in Perth during ShelterWA’s Homelessness Week.
Dr O’Connell — who is president of Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program — said the concept rose out of a desire to integrate the care of homeless people within the mainstream health system.
Dr O’Connell established the USA’s first medical respite program in 1985.(Facebook: Chronicle on WCVB Channel 5)
He said patients had wanted better respite care, instead of being left to return to the streets. Once that was provided, hospital readmission rates went down.
“We have a real problem in Boston with a lack of affordable housing,” he said.
“Rents are very high, vacancies are almost non-existent, and then we’ve also been struggling with both COVID and an opioid and other drug epidemic.”
Connecting with art
It was a chance conversation with someone from a Christian group in Northbridge that led to Ms Corbett getting and keeping her own unit.
Anthea Corbett’s cancer led to the amputation of part of her leg.(ABC News: Dave Weber)
Her life was now about staying off the streets and keeping connected with her support network, her family — and her art.
“This is my chance to do what was instilled in me as a child and I’m still alive and I can make something of myself,” she said.
Anthea Corbett says homeless people need to build a network of positive influences. (ABC News: David Weber)
She has started voluntary work to assist and advise others who find themselves on the streets.
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Malaysia’s Parliament Speaker Azhar Azizan Harun pose for photographs during their meeting at Malaysian Houses of Parliament in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 2, 2022. Malaysian Department of Information/Famer Roheni/Handout via REUTERS
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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 (Reuters) – A US air force jet that flew House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Malaysia left the country on Tuesday and flew close to the Philippines, in the day’s most followed flight on tracking site Flightradar24.
Reuters could not immediately establish if Pelosi or her delegation were on flight SPAR19, but authorities in the Philippines, a US ally, said no request had been received from the United States for her to visit or transit in the country.
The plane left Kuala Lumpur at 3:42 pm (0742 GMT) and flew east towards Borneo on a route that skirted the South China Sea.
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It was last seen on the tracker off the southernmost Philippine region of Mindanao, however, flying along the country’s Pacific east coast.
Pelosi was expected to arrive in Taipei later on Tuesday, sources said earlier. read more
Like SPAR19, a second US air force plane arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday morning. According to Flightradar24, SPAR20 had not left the Malaysian capital.
A visit to Taiwan by Pelosi, who is second in the line of succession to the US presidency and a long-time critic of China, would come amid worsening ties between Washington and Beijing.
She has not confirmed if she would visit the self-governed island which Beijing claims as its own.
Both the Philippines air force and its Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said they had received no word from the United States that Pelosi might land in the country on Tuesday.
“The DFA has not received any request from the US government or their embassy in Manila for Speaker Pelosi to transit and/ or visit the Philippines as part of her current swing of visits to the region,” the DFA said in a text message to reporters .
As of 1130 GMT, SPAR19 was flying just south of the Philippines, according to Flightradar24, in a route tracked by as many as 300,000 people on its website.
A normal flight from Kuala Lumpur to Taiwan’s capital of Taipei would cross the South China Sea, with a typical flight time of under five hours.
Since last week, China’s People’s Liberation Army has conducted various exercises, including live fire drills, in the South China Sea, Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, in a show of Chinese military might.
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Reporting by Ebrahim Harris and Rozanna Latiff in Kuala Lumpur and Ryan Woo in Beijing; Additional reporting by Neil Jerome Morales in Manila; Editing by Martin Petty, William Maclean
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If you’ve always had a burning desire to drive through Luna Park as Yoshi and chuck red shells at Bowser across the Sydney Harbor Bridge, say no more! The benevolent kings at Nintendo are bringing out a course called “Sydney Sprint” in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Passwhich is essentially an expansion pack for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe consisting of sexy new courses.
Real stans will remember Sydney Sprint from mario kart tourthe mobile version of the OG Mario Kart which gave revheads without a Nintendo console — like me — the chance to rip skids around Rainbow Road.
Yes, I was obsessed with mario kart tour for a solid year or two after it was released in 2019. If I’m being honest, I went a little bit crazy for Shy Guy Bazaar because it made me feel like I was having a mosey in a Moroccan bazaar. Neo Bowser City took me back to visiting Tokyo as a child and don’t even get me started on the sheer visceral thrill that Waluigi Pinball gave me.
Alas, I digress.
I never played Sydney Sprint, which appeared on mario kart tour during two different Sydney Tours in 2021; this meant there were two unique versions of the course.
The whole thing looked like a hoot and a bloody half though, with players gunning it down the Bradfield Highway and swerving around Sydney Harbor and Luna Park, before yeeting past the Opera House.
Drivers even had to dodge mushrooms and bananas and shit that passengers on the North Shore line were throwing at them. How silly and goofy and fun (not derogatory).
— GamesCage – Hype Guy (@OnTheDownLoTho) July 28, 2022
According to Super Mario Wiki, the specific course layout is yet to be confirmed but it’ll be an expanded and combined version of both Sydney Sprint courses that were featured on mario kart tour.
Based on the preview released by Nintendo, however, it looks like players will still visit the beautiful sites of mario kart tour yore, including the Sydney Opera House and Luna Park.
You can start dropping bob-ombs and bananas on the streets of Sydney on August 4.
