The suspect is still on the run following the incident, which took place on Randall Avenue north-east of Manhattan.
One person is believed to have been shot in the head and another is in critical condition, sources reportedly told New York’s Pix 11. The other two victims are reportedly in a stable condition…
MORE: Bronx shooting: Multiple people shot in The Bronx after Manhattan attack | Perth Now
The planet Nibiru is supposed to be crashing into Earth. So far it’s happened in 2002, 2012, 2015, 2016 … http://ift.tt/2xavJad
A donation drive organized by Houston Texans NFL star J.J. Watt had reached $10 million in pledges from celebrities and ordinary people by Thursday, and singer Solange Knowles, Beyonce’s sister, announced benefit concerts in Boston and New York for September and October.
A tearful Cyrus, 24, announced a $500,000 contribution in an emotional appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
“Gravity” star Bullock, and DiCaprio’s foundation said this week they will each contribute $1 million to organizations helping people recover from the devastating floods.
“It just really makes me just really upset… I go home to my seven dogs and if I didn’t have that anymore, it would just be really hard. So I am really happy to help in any way I can. And I hope people understand and can put themselves in those people’s shoes,” Cyrus said.
Some 779,000 Texans have been ordered to evacuate their homes and another 980,000 fled voluntarily amid concerns on Thursday that swollen reservoirs and rivers could bring new flooding. Harvey roared ashore late last week as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas in a half-century but has now been downgraded to a tropical depression.
Source: Miley Cyrus, Beyonce join Harvey storm relief effort
Microsoft, in partnership with Canberra Data Centres, and the Australian government announced the initiative on Tuesday describing it as the first hyperscale government cloud designed to handle unclassified and protected government data.
The basic idea behind the project — which has been about three years in the making — is to modernise the system that underpins services such as healthcare, immigration, border protection, welfare and tax to pave the way for things like individual digital identities and connected health records.
Due to come into operation in the first half of 2018, Microsoft will effectively build two new cloud regions over the top of government data, which is being securely stored in Canberra.
“We’re building cloud platforms close to where the data is. By building our cloud infrastructure in the data centre where most government data already lives we can really unlock some of that data and innovate on top of it,” the lead engineer for Microsoft Azure in Australia, James Kavanagh, told news.com.au.
Described as “nation building infrastructure” the initiative will allow government agencies to unlock the potential of innovative technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligent bots and blockchain.
It could even usher in a new and more efficient tax system, Mr Kavanagh said…
Source: Microsoft Hyperscale Cloud to be used for Australian government data
One Nation has won a temporary injunction to prevent the ABC from publishing more secret recordings of party meetings, in an urgent court application in Sydney on Thursday.
Lawyers for Senator Hanson applied for a temporary injunction in the NSW Supreme Court after damaging recordings previously disseminated by a former One Nation official raised questions about the party’s conduct…
MORE; Pauline Hanson’s One Nation seeks Supreme Court injunction to stop ABC airing material
WA football and broadcasting legend John K Watts has died at the age of 80, his family has confirmed.
Watts’ son Jon Watts posted an emotional Facebook tribute to the father he called his “best mate.”
“I am in absolute shock by it all as he was more than just a regular dad, he was my confidant, friend, accomplice, drinking buddy, singing partner, comedian, and so much more,” he posted.
I am absolutely devastated to report that my wonderful Father and Best Mate, John K. Watts has passed away this evening. I am in absolute shock by it all as he was more than just a regular Dad, he was my confidant, friend, accomplice, drinking buddy, singing partner, comedian, and so much more. Words cannot express my deep sadness and I am sincerely at a loss as to what to do. Sleep well mate – and thanks for all the memories. I love you so very much and I have no idea really how to go on from here.
John K. Watts 1937 – 2017
MORE: WA football and broadcasting legend John K Watts dies aged 80 | Perth Now
Twenty-four teenagers were sent to hospital after inhaling chemicals at their high school.
Paramedics were called to Millmerran State High School, which is around 200km west of Brisbane, after a ‘chemical inhalation incident’ at about 10am on Friday.
Queensland Ambulance said the students were taken to Millmerran Hospital in a stable condition.
A Queensland Fire and Emergency spokesman said firefighters were sent to the affected part of the school in breathing apparatus.
They carried out atmospheric testing and didn’t detect any chemicals and are now ventilating the area.
A Queensland Fire and Emergency spokesman said firefighters were sent to the affected part of the school in breathing apparatus.
They carried out atmospheric testing and didn’t detect any chemicals and are now ventilating the area.
Source: Students sent to hospital after ‘chemical inhalation’ | Daily Mail Online
PERTH’S Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi has been found guilty of all 45 serious breaches of the Local Government Act relating to her failing to disclose gifts and hospitality packages – immediately putting her future in the role in serious doubt.
The State Administrative Tribunal this morning upheld all the allegations she breached the Local Government Act dozens of times by accepting prohibited gifts and failed to properly declare others.
And SAT chairman Justice Jeremy Curthoys has ordered lawyers for the government and Ms Scaffidi to return next week to discuss possible penalties – saying to wait any longer would cause “too much uncertainty for the operation of council”.
Ms Scaffdi did not attend this morning’s brief hearing to hand down the findings, having returned from an overseas trip last night.
She will however face an interesting reception at a full council meeting, due to begin at 6pm this evening.
The SAT findings follow scathing findings by the Corruption and Crime Commission, recommended Ms Scaffidi face disciplinary action at the State Administrative Tribunal — which has the power to disqualify her from office for up to five years.
The long and winding road which began with an investigation of a trip to the 2008 Beijing Olympics gifted to Mrs Scaffidi and her husband by BHP Billiton ended with a daylong examination at the State Administrative Tribunal.
After a CCC investigation concluded the Lord Mayor engaged in serious misconduct by failing to disclose gifts and hospitality packages, and the Department of Local Government then alleged 45 specific breaches, Mrs Scaffidi was last year quizzed in detail and at length about her conduct.
But even before the interrogation began, Mrs Scaffidi officially conceded she was at fault for failing to declare the Olympics trip, another BHP Billiton invitation to the 2009 Leeuwin concert featuring Chris Isaak, and a further junket to the 2008 Broome Cup paid for by property company Hawaiian.
In the SAT ruling published today, Justice Curthoys said that he totally rejected an argument put forward by the mayor that “distinction must be drawn between the provisions of accommodation for [Ms Scaffidi] personally, as opposed to the provision of accommodation for [Ms Scaffidi] in the course of carrying out an activity in her capacity as Lord Mayor”
“Ms Scaffidi’s submission would mean that any disposition of property or conferral of a financial benefit on Ms Scaffidi when she is acting in an official capacity would not be covered,” the ruling said.
“If that proposition be right, then a Lord Mayor could receive, for example, a gold Rolex without having to declare the gift because the gift was made to her in her official capacity. It would entirely defeat the purpose of the LG Act in ensuring accountability.”
The ruling also rejected Ms Scaffidi’s argument during the hearing that she held a “mistaken belief” that the City of Perth funded the expenditures and did not receive reimbursement from third parties for some of her trips.
“At its highest, Ms Scaffidi’s oral evidence is that she simply did not turn her mind to the issue of third party funding. Ignorance as to the true state of affairs is insufficient to successfully establish a … defence,” the SAT ruled.
“In addition, even if Ms Scaffidi had established a positively held mistaken belief, the Tribunal finds that such belief could not have been reasonably held in circumstances where she undertook no enquiries to ascertain the truth.”
Premier Mark McGowan has reiterated calls for Mrs Scaffidi to resign, in light of the SAT’s findings today.
Mr McGowan said if she did not do the “honourable” thing and resign, then Councillors should move a no confidence motion in her leadership at Tuesday’s council meeting.
She needs to step down in her own interests, in the interests of the City of Perth and in the interests of the people of WA,” he said.
“45 serious breaches showing impropriety is 45 too many.
“This issue has dragged on for way too long.”
When asked what the State Government would do if neither step was taken, Mr McGowan said the Local Government Act was weak but they were still exploring their options.
“I am constrained by the Local Government Act,” he said.
“We’re looking at the capacity to sack individual Councillors – how can it be that a whole council needs to be sacked because of the behavior of one person.”
Source: Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi guilty over gift breaches | Perth Now
She recently claimed she was a witch who gets her powers through drinking Red Bull on social media.
And it seems Chloe Lattanzi’s bizarre behaviour is continuing after posting a photo of three topless women believed to be based on the Greek mythology of Sirens on her Instagram.
The 31-year-old daughter of Olivia Newton-John captioned her post ‘Girls Night Out’ along with #witchespartybest, and tagged her friends in the saucy post.
One clever follower even made the connection of the image to the 1994 Australian film Sirens, which starred Elle Macpherson, Portia De Rossi and Kate Fischer (now Tziporah Malkah).
The image has since been removed, seemingly due to Instagram’s policy against showing female nipples.
The model posed with her leg up on what seems to be a stand or table to flaunt her pert derrière in a pair of tiny denim daisy dukes.
Pairing the bottoms with a light khaki green tube crop top that held her bust in, she wore her blonde hair out in a messy style.
Soon after, Chloe posted another photo of herself with the caption, ‘thick’.
Chloe is also known for her plastic fantastic looks, scantily-clad selfies, and sometimes bizarre behaviour.
And on Friday she put on one of her weirdest displays to date as she took to Instagram to share some artsy, out-there images.
She also made the claim that she’s a witch who gets her magic powers from drinking Red Bull.
‘Turn regular into magical,’ she wrote, followed by the hashtags: ‘#witchontheDL, #spell, #magic, #wicca, #redbullgivesmepowers.’
In another busty photo, the devilish No Pain songstress wrote: ‘We have 2 wolves inside us.
‘The dark wolf and the wolf of light. The one you feed wins the battle.’
She finished: ‘Who did you feed today? #ghostoftheforest #imseethrough.’
On Tuesday, the bizarre star posted yet another strange photo, channeling Disney princess Ariel.
The troubled Dead 7 actress shared a digitally-altered image of her sporting red hair against a beach back drop…
MORE HERE: Chloe Lattanzi posts topless photo and says she’s a witch | Daily Mail Online
It is known as a rich man’s drug in Australia, the US and the UK, but in Colombia cocaine can be sold for as little as $5 per gram and personal possession of up to 1g is legal.
Professor Goldsmith worked in Colombia as a police reform adviser and warns drug cartels are attracted to travellers as they hold passports which are the ticket to transporting the drug to Western countries.
He adds that drug mules are commonplace and are known to freely cooperate with traffickers, and said it is ‘difficult to imagine how one could be completely unknowing’.
The culture of drugs in South America has transformed the Colombian cocaine trade into a tourist attraction.
Backpackers in South American countries like Colombia, Mexico and Peru are drawn to the superficial allure of wild nightclubs, cheap shopping and a gentle dusting of the addictive white powder.
Caught up in the whirl of partying and the recreational drug scene, travellers develop an invincible attitude which convinces them to become a one-time drug mule – without delving too far into the real-world consequences.
Professor Goldsmith said Colombian jails are overcrowded with travellers just like 22-year-old South Australian woman Cassandra Sainsbury who was allegedly found with 5.8kg of cocaine concealed in headphone packages.
Red flags in Ms Sainsbury’s claims of innocence includes her third-party purchased plane ticket and the fact she had never travelled to Colombia before, he said.
MORE HERE: Western travellers drawn to cocaine trail in South America | Daily Mail Online
