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Robin Khuda buys house next door in Mosman, creates $30 million compound

Robin Khuda buys house next door in Mosman, creates $30 million compound

CBRE’s Caroline Fagerlund says no one has lived in the apartment because it was purchased by the buyer’s mother, who no longer wants to leave the family home – presumably the Nahas family’s Merrylands mansion.

Buyers are being given a guide of $6.5 million.

Meanwhile, records show the buyer of their Bellevue Hill home is Canberra developer Zhenglian Wang, a director and majority owner of Coda Property Group and TF Taofei Investment group.

The three-level residence comes with DA approval to be knocked down and rebuilt into a Blainey North-designed mansion.

The three-level residence comes with DA approval to be knocked down and rebuilt into a Blainey North-designed mansion.Credit:

The Nahas and Sahyoun sale resulted almost doubled the $11 million it last sold for in 2020 by freight boss Arthur Tzaneros, although it did score DA approval just three months before it was listed to be knocked down and rebuilt as a Blainey-North-designed mansion at a cost of $6.3 million.

Point Piper’s latest buyer

Nikki Schofield has bought an apartment in Point Piper's art deco Buckhurst block for $6.25 million.

Nikki Schofield has bought an apartment in Point Piper’s art deco Buckhurst block for $6.25 million.Credit:evil fairclough

Investment banker Phil Schofield and his wife Nikki, of Melbourne’s coffee and olive oil Valmorbida family, have bought a Point Piper apartment from billionaire Will Vicars.

The couple were already living in the ground-floor apartment in the art deco Buckhurst block, which no doubt would have made the $6.25 million sale from landlord to tenant all the easier. It last traded for $2.48 million in 2008.

Schofield, an executive director of investment bank Canaccord Genuity, and Nikki wed in the summer of 2016 in New York before the likes of business types like Rob Rankin, Ben Tilley and developer Robert Whyte.

Trismegistus Farm’s record hopes

North Coast property Trismegistus Farm – built by self-styled spiritual healer Serge Benhayon and his wife Miranda – is for sale for $17.995 million, discounted from $24 million a month ago.

Trismegistus Farm is set on 23 hectares thanks to a recent property consolidation.

Trismegistus Farm is set on 23 hectares thanks to a recent property consolidation.Credit:

Jaye Scanlon, of the Melbourne rich list family headed by Melbourne-based billionaire philanthropist Peter Scanlon, purchased the property from the Benhayons a year ago, and consolidated it with an adjoining property soon after to create a 23-hectare holding company.

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Amir Mian, of his eponymous agency, and assistant Rochelle Lamers say it last traded for $17 million, however official title records show the Benhayons pocketed $3.8 million, and the neighboring acreage with a four-bedroom house and cottage was added for $1.25 million.

The property, named after the Egyptian god Hermes Trismegistus, is billed in the marketing as the “Land of the Gods”, and features a main six-bedroom residence, a separate caretaker’s cottage, Queenslander cottage, two swimming pools, separate recording and photographic studio, pecan orchard and stables and arena.

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Apple River stabbings: 4 surviving victims are in stable condition, charges expected Monday

Apple River stabbings: 4 surviving victims are in stable condition, charges expected Monday

SOMERSET, Wis. — Authorities in western Wisconsin have released more details in the fatal stabbing incident at a popular tubing area on the Apple River, including the conditions of the surviving victims.

According to the St. Croix Sheriff’s Office, the dispatch office received reports of a stabbing on the Apple River upstream from Sunrise Bridge in Somerset at approximately 3:45 pm Saturday. When deputies arrived, they found five people with stab wounds to their mid-sections.

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“Deputies, as well as citizens, began providing medical care to the victims,” ​​the sheriff’s office said Sunday.

The suspect, a 52-year-old man from Prior Lake, Minnesota, initially ran off but is now in custody. Police say he was with another group that was tubing. He did not have a knife when officers arrested him.

All five victims were taken to area hospitals, with two airlifted to Regions Hospital in St. Paul and another two taken by ambulance to the same location. The fifth victim was taken to Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater where he was pronounced dead.

Authorities said the deceased victim is a 17-year-old boy from Stillwater.

The four victims are all in stable conditions, with injuries ranging from serious to critical in their torso and chest areas. They are identified as:

  • 22-year-old man from Luck
  • 22-year-old man from Elk River, Minnesota
  • 24-year-old woman from Burnsville, Minnesota
  • 20-year-old man from Luck, Wisconsin

The suspect’s name is not being released until he’s formally charged, which authorities expect will be Monday. Authorities said he was located near the exit point for tubers on the Apple River, and then taken into custody without incident. He is being held at the St. Croix County Jail.

“The St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office wishes to thank the agencies that responded to assist with this traumatic incident and express our gratitude to the citizens who stepped in to provide care and comfort to the victims,” ​​the sheriff’s office said in the update.

The sheriff’s office said Saturday that it’s unclear if the stabbing was random and investigators are attempting to determine a motive.

Tubing in the area has been closed while investigators work in and out of the river.

Anyone with information, including video, are asked to call Investigator John Shilts at 715-381-4219 or emailing [email protected].

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Technology

Dr Disrespect dropped game footage for his new shooter. People immediately shredded it

Dr Disrespect dropped game footage for his new shooter. People immediately shredded it

Popular video-game streamer Dr Disrespect on Sunday revealed early footage from the first game of his new gaming studio, a first-person shooter Deadrop. People are already tearing it to shreds on social media.

The announcement comes months after Dr Disrespect announced the launch of the games studio he founded with Call of Duty and Halo veterans Robert Bowling, Quinn DelHoyo, and Sumit Gupta called Midnight Society. Disrespect founded the studio a year after he was permanently banned on Twitch for still unknown reasons and is now on a quest to create video games that rival the best FPS franchises.

Disrespect and Midnight Studios describes the game as “the world’s first vertical extraction shooter” and early access has been given to fans who bought the $50 Founders Access Passes. And to be clear — more clear than the definition of a “vertical extraction shooter” — this is early footage and you can tell in the video below by the choppy framerate, poor gun mechanics, lack of animations, sound design, etc.

However, what makes the reveal sting even worse was Disrespect’s comments on the game in June. He stated in a now-deleted tweet that Deadrop “blows out anything from CoD engine.” Subsequently, his bold claim was met with ridicule by fans. Some have compared it to a mobile game and others have described it as an arcade shooter you’d find at Chuck E. Cheese.

According to PC Gamer, Deadrop also serves as a way for Midnight Studios to sell NFTs. Players who have bought the Founder Pass have access to snapshot builds of the game that release every six weeks. These snapshots come with “procedurally generated NFTs of a character who serves as [the player’s] in-game avatar.”

Again, this game is in the very early stages of development, and it’s very uncommon to show gameplay this early in the process for the obvious reasons seen above. A release date is far in the future for Deadrop so maybe Dr Disrespect will prove us wrong and the game will blow away our expectations. Maybe.

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Sports

England beats Germany, wins women’s Euros: Football news, reaction

England beats Germany, wins women's Euros: Football news, reaction

England won a major women’s football tournament for the first time as Chloe Kelly’s extra-time goal secured a 2-1 victory over Germany at a sold out Wembley on Monday morning (AEST).

In front of a record crowd of 87,192 for any match in the history of the European Championships, Kelly prodded home a loose ball from close range to end English football’s 56-year wait for a World Cup or Euro victory.

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England looked set for victory in the 90 minutes when substitute Ella Toone’s sublime chip over Merle Frohms put the hosts in front.

Germany showed remarkable resilience to bounce back as Lina Magull leveled 11 minutes from time.

But for once, England were not to be denied a major tournament success. Kelly fought back from an anterior cruciate ligament tear to be fit in time for the tournament and made herself a national hero by being in the right place to pounce when Germany failed to clear a corner in the 110th minute.

The Manchester City winger tore her shirt off in celebration in scenes reminiscent of Mia Hamm’s famous reaction to scoring the winning penalty for the USA at the 1999 World Cup.

Fortune did not favor Germany, who lost captain and top goalscorer Alexandra Popp to a muscle injury in the warm-up.

But England will feel their time for some luck was due as 12 months on from the Three Lions’ defeat on penalties to Italy in the Euro 2020 men’s final, the nation’s women went one better.

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Australia

Rent hikes and cost-of-living pressures are exacerbating homelessness in Ipswich

Rent hikes and cost-of-living pressures are exacerbating homelessness in Ipswich

It is Tuesday night in Ipswich and across town lines of hungry people are forming outside boarding houses, hostels and care centres. Everyone is waiting for a bright yellow van to roll around the corner.

For some, tonight’s meal will be their first for that day. For others, the first in a few.

Helping Hands volunteers scramble every week to pull together grocery packs and collect food donations to make sandwiches and soup for some of the region’s most vulnerable.

But, as the cost of food rises, that’s becoming more difficult to do.

“We don’t have many pantry packs this week folks,” one of the volunteers yells to a crowd of 20 people, some of whom started to line up half an hour before the van arrived to get the first pick of what was on offer.

“So, if you don’t need one tonight, we ask that you don’t take one. But, of course, if you do need one, feel free to take it,” he said.

Kyle Dixon has relied on the service for nearly two years.

He’s found refuge at an Ipswich boarding house. While it’s not perfect, for $170 a week he has a bed and a roof over his head.

Kyle Dixon lives on the streets in Ipswich
Kyle Dixon says his budget is getting tighter. (ABC News: Dean Caton)

While the weekly food van service has been a budget lifesaver, he said he’s been going hungry a lot more recently than ever before.

“I have a bit less money, considering my bills and the expenses I need to do day-to-day life,” he said.

“Yeah, it’s quite hard to get food in.

“With the soup and the sandwiches as well [from the van], it’s absolutely amazing. That’s a good dinner if you hadn’t had anything to eat already.”

Anthony Burke, who volunteers for helping hands, has seen the effects of the rising cost of living firsthand.

Mr Burke said people seem hungrier and more desperate.

“In the last year [there’s] been a lot more demand,” he said.

“Some people are having to choose between canned food and toothpaste — in those situations, they’ll always choose the food.”

Anthony Burke volunteers to help homeless people in Ipswich
Anthony Burke says there is increased demand for food services in Ipswich. (ABC News: Dean Caton)

Sean Maskiel has also relied on the food van for two years.

He lives in another boarding house in Ipswich, and said he’s noticed more people are using the service now.

“There’s quite a few homeless people that are appearing out of nowhere that just need that extra hand,” he said.

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Sean Maskeil says the boarding house he stays at is full.(ABC NewsLaura Lavelle)

Rental crisis filling boarding houses

Gene Waterman manages two boarding houses in Ipswich.

Just a few weeks ago, there were up to 15 people on a waiting list for a room.

“[It is] crazy. From five years ago to now, it’s a completely different beast,” he said, “10 years ago, there were always around 10 rooms available. Now I’m always full.

“There is literally nothing out there. You don’t have a choice where you live. You just go anywhere you can get a place.”

Data from the Real Estate Institute of Queensland shows the average cost to rent a three-bedroom property in Goodna, Springfield, Bellbird Park and Camira in 2019 was $350 per week.

Now it’s $420.

In the Rosewood area, the price hike is even steeper, going from $295 per week to $440 per week in just three years.

And, while rental costs balloon, so has the number of people sitting below the poverty line.

The Australian Council of Social Services (ACOSS) now defines the poverty line as any single adult earning less than $457 per week or a couple with two children earning less than $960 per week.

According to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 2016 more than 54,000 people in the Ipswich local government area were earning less than $499 per week.

According to the 2021 census, that number has grown to more than 55,000.

Problem starts with low income

ACOSS chief executive Edwina MacDonald has a handle on the issue.

“We know that, of the people we’re spoken to, 50 per cent of them are skipping meals and they’re reducing how much they’re eating,” Ms MacDonald said.

“We know that they’re cutting back or not using their car at all.”

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Biden under ‘strict isolation measures’ as he continues to test positive for Covid | Joe Biden

Joe Biden continued to test positive for coronavirus on Sunday and will “continue his strict isolation measures” his physician said.

The US president feels well, the White House said. Biden tweeted about the economy and about regretting being unable to meet in person to commiserate with military veterans and their families visiting Capitol Hill in support of a long-awaited bipartisan bill that would expand healthcare access for those exposed to toxic burn pits.

Some Republican senators had reversed their support for the legislation at the last minute.

Biden tweeted a video of himself sitting outside at the White House on a green sofa, wearing an open-necked blue shirt and a baseball cap with the presidential seal as he video-chatted with the families gathered on the steps leading up to the US Congress and had pizza sent to them.

I’d planned to stop by the Capitol and visit families fighting to pass burn pits legislation. COVID got in the way, so I FaceTimed them and felt some pizza.

It’s our sacred obligation to care for our veterans. I won’t stop fighting alongside them to get this bill passed. pic.twitter.com/6vURnVSuC9

— President Biden (@POTUS) July 31, 2022

The president on Saturday tested positive for Covid-19 only days after testing negative and having apparently largely shrugged off an infection with the virus.

His physician, Kevin O’Connor, said on Sunday that Biden is being monitored daily and his positive test that morning was unsurprising.

The president had originally contracted Covid and tested positive on July 21, then apparently recovered.

But Biden had been taking the anti-viral medication Paxlovid, which has reported numerous cases of effectively reducing the viral load of Covid only for it to return once the medication is stopped.

In accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, on Saturday Biden, 79, had re-entered isolation for at least five days. The agency says most “rebound” cases remain mild and that severe disease during that period has not been reported.

Paxlovid has been proven to significantly reduce severe disease and death among those most vulnerable to severe Covid.

Biden is fully vaccinated, after getting two doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine shortly before taking office, a first booster shot in September and an additional dose on 30 March.

The weekend positive tests jeopardize a Tuesday trip Biden had planned to Michigan, which is holding its fiercely-contested primary elections that day.

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Technology

‘Bennifer’ Is Back: 7 Questions to Ask Before Getting Back With an Ex

'Bennifer' Is Back: 7 Questions to Ask Before Getting Back With an Ex

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez — affectionately known as “Bennifer” — are back together after nearly two decades apart. The actor and singer-actor have made a dramatic return to the headlines that has many people asking the age-old question: Should I get back with my ex, too?

It’s a question that plagues a lot of people, says Laura F. Dabney, MD, a psychiatrist specializing in marriage and relationships, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

“It’s comforting to know somebody already,” Dr. Dabney says — versus the fear of something new. “And when the attraction is still there, too, that desire to make it work can be very appealing.”

What’s more, it can be difficult to grieve the loss of a relationship, says Bonnie Scott, a licensed professional counselor in private practice in San Antonio, Texas. “So, if we can slide back into a pattern with an ex, there’s no end to mourn. And that’s pretty tempting.”

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‘Punched in the face’: Chris Rock reacts to Will Smith’s apology

'Punched in the face': Chris Rock reacts to Will Smith's apology

Hours after Will Smith took to social media to apologize for slapping Chris Rock during the 2022 Oscars, the stand-up took to the stage to wax poetic over the moment.

Rock compared Smith to former Death Row Records executive and currently incarcerated hothead Suge Knight, reported Page Six.

“Everybody is trying to be af***ing victim,” Rock, 57, said during a gig at Atlanta’s Fox Theater Friday night.

“If everybody claims to be a victim, then nobody will hear the real victims. Even me getting smacked by Suge Smith… I went to work the next day, I got kids.”

“Anyone who says words hurt has never been punched in the face,” Rock added, according to People.

The comic is currently touring his new material as part of his Ego Death World Tour. He also touched on the subject during recent shows in New Jersey and New York, co-headlined by Kevin Hart.

Smith’s latest apology — as he also apologized to Rock via social media days after the notorious incident — revealed that Rock has refused to speak to him so far about the moment he deemed “unacceptable.”

“I reached out to Chris, and the message that came back is he’s not ready to talk, but when he is, he will reach out,” Smith said in the video posted to YouTube. “I will say to you, Chris, I apologize to you. My behavior was unacceptable, and I’m here whenever you’re ready to talk.”

Smith, 53, also apologized to Rock’s mother and brother Tony Rock.

“That was one of the things about that moment that I didn’t realize,” he continued. “I wasn’t thinking about how many people got hurt in that moment. I want to apologize to Chris’ mother, to Chris’ family of him, especially his brother, Tony Rock. ”

Tony, who previously worked with Smith on an early-2000s sitcom All Of Ustook Smith to task over hitting his brother, leaving the Oscar winner with the impression that their relationship is now “probably irreparable.”

“Disappointing people is my central trauma.

“I hate when I let people down, so it hurts psychologically and emotionally to know that I didn’t live up to people’s image and impression of me,” he further explained. “The work I’m trying to do is I am deeply remorseful, and I’m trying to be remorseful without being ashamed of myself.”

This article originally appeared on Page Six and was reproduced with permission

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Sydney Swans v GWS Giants, Mark McVeigh, coach, job, Alastair Clarkson, vacant position, brutally honest, checked out, embarrassing loss, criticism, Nick Riewoldt

Sydney Swans v GWS Giants, Mark McVeigh, coach, job, Alastair Clarkson, vacant position, brutally honest, checked out, embarrassing loss, criticism, Nick Riewoldt

Mark McVeigh’s brutally honest assessment that his players “checked out” in the 73-point Sydney derby loss could cost him the Giants’ senior coaching job, Fox Footy’s Nick Riewoldt has warned.

McVeigh did not hold back in his post-match criticism, as he labeled the performance “embarrassing” and “extremely disappointing”, while stating only eight players “went to the wall” for four quarters.

Speaking about McVeigh’s stunning statement, Riewoldt said he feared the comments could cost the caretaker coach the full-time gig in 2023.

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“I think it puts a line through it (his coaching aspirations at GWS),” he said on Best on Ground.

“If that’s the concession that you’re making as a coach, that you think some of your players have checked out and you are responsible for getting the players up every week, I think it becomes very difficult for the club to say: ‘You ‘re the man going forward’.”

McVeigh remains in the running for the full-time job next season, reportedly alongside four-time premiership coach Alastair Clarkson, Melbourne’s Adem Yze and Richmond’s Adam Kingsley.

Fellow panelist and former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley said he admired McVeigh’s honesty.

“That’s the first time I’ve heard those comments,” he said.

“That’s as honest as you can get.

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“That comment… I love to see that because that is absolutely honest. If that’s his opinion of him, and you’ve got to take that at face value, it’s a real challenge.

The Giants were smashed in all the stats that mattered, down -117 in disposals, -33 in inside 50s and -24 in tackles – including laying just six inside 50 for the match.

Riewoldt said the result isn’t a direct reflection on McVeigh’s ability as a coach, but raised questions about his connection with the players.

“It doesn’t mean that he can’t coach. But the ability to get this group up … how can the Giants, if they think the players have checked out under his coaching, how can they have confidence to make that appointment?” Riewoldt said.

“I think it puts them in a really difficult position to go and appoint him after that.”

Buckley said he now wanted to see what sort of response the Giants players had in the clash with Essendon.

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“The next couple of weeks will be what tells you about Mark McVeigh’s bona fides as a coach and his connection with those players because they will respond to that? Because there’s always something to play for,” he said.

“The response is going to say more than the comment.”

Earlier this month, McVeigh confirmed he would enter the race to become the Giants coach for 2023 and beyond.

(The club hierarchy) have been very open with me and terrific, they’ve been amazing and they’ve supported me,” he said.

“There are other coaches that they’ll be talking to, which is absolutely right (to do), and I’m just another one of those that are trying to win the role.

“I certainly know where it sits and I’m very clear on the approach going forward.”

GWS will face Essendon, the Western Bulldogs and Fremantle in the final three rounds.

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Biden under ‘strict isolation measures’ as he continues to test positive for Covid | Joe Biden

Joe Biden continued to test positive for coronavirus on Sunday and will “continue his strict isolation measures” his physician said.

The US president feels well, the White House said. Biden tweeted about the economy and about regretting being unable to meet in person to commiserate with military veterans and their families visiting Capitol Hill in support of a long-awaited bipartisan bill that would expand healthcare access for those exposed to toxic burn pits.

Some Republican senators had reversed their support for the legislation at the last minute.

Biden tweeted a video of himself sitting outside at the White House on a green sofa, wearing an open-necked blue shirt and a baseball cap with the presidential seal as he video-chatted with the families gathered on the steps leading up to the US Congress and had pizza sent to them.

I’d planned to stop by the Capitol and visit families fighting to pass burn pits legislation. COVID got in the way, so I FaceTimed them and felt some pizza.

It’s our sacred obligation to care for our veterans. I won’t stop fighting alongside them to get this bill passed. pic.twitter.com/6vURnVSuC9

— President Biden (@POTUS) July 31, 2022

The president on Saturday tested positive for Covid-19 only days after testing negative and having apparently largely shrugged off an infection with the virus.

His physician, Kevin O’Connor, said on Sunday that Biden is being monitored daily and his positive test that morning was unsurprising.

The president had originally contracted Covid and tested positive on July 21, then apparently recovered.

But Biden had been taking the anti-viral medication Paxlovid, which has reported numerous cases of effectively reducing the viral load of Covid only for it to return once the medication is stopped.

In accordance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, on Saturday Biden, 79, had re-entered isolation for at least five days. The agency says most “rebound” cases remain mild and that severe disease during that period has not been reported.

Paxlovid has been proven to significantly reduce severe disease and death among those most vulnerable to severe Covid.

Biden is fully vaccinated, after getting two doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine shortly before taking office, a first booster shot in September and an additional dose on 30 March.

The weekend positive tests jeopardize a Tuesday trip Biden had planned to Michigan, which is holding its fiercely-contested primary elections that day.