I am a real idiot to do this: May 31

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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Labor’s Darling Range by-election candidate announced as Tania Lawrence

LABOR has announced Tania Lawrence as the party’s new candidate for the Darling Range by-election.

Ms Lawrence is Labor’s second candidate for the seat after its first candidate, Colleen Yates, pulled out of the race last week after questions emerged over her claims about her academic qualifications she made online.

Ms Lawrence, who lives in Mundaring, works at Woodside and has also served in the public sector, in emergency response management and counter-terrorism roles.

She was also the first elected female president of Motorcycling Australia.

via Labor’s Darling Range by-election candidate announced as Tania Lawrence | PerthNow

Child porn ring member Leon Berger jailed for ten months. “I would do it with babies if I could,” Why not 10 years [or more]?

ONE of the members of a group of paedophile friends – which included former A Current Affair reporter Ben McCormack – has been jailed by a Perth judge.

Former bank employee Leon Mario Berger, 36, appeared in WA’s District Court earlier this year and admitted possessing child pornography. Berger was charged after he was caught along with two other WA paedophiles and McCormack following an interstate police operation.

While his lawyer pointed out that McCormack had not been sent to prison over his child pornography charges, Judge Patrick O’Neal said he was not satisfied that Berger had truly accepted his paedophilic disorder.

Berger was jailed for ten months but will be eligible for parole after five.

The court had previously heard how Berger was found with sickening imagery and a video, which included one photo of a six year-old boy being abused by an adult male – an act which Berger claimed he wanted to do himself.

In Skype chats and other messaging with McCormack and WA teacher Mathew Reale, who was also in touch with the disgraced former TV journalist, Berger revealed his own perversions, which included a fantasy about a drugging, kidnapping and raping a young male relative.

“I would do it with babies if I could,” was just one of the messages he sent.

via Child porn ring member Leon Berger jailed for ten months | PerthNow

#Perth weather: lightning strike leaves around 25,000 homes without power

At the peak 25,000 homes and businesses were affected but that number has already been reduced to under 12,000.

Technicians are currently trying to restore power to the homes.

“We would ask for customer patience as we safely restore the remaining homes,” Western Power said. “Some customers may take longer that predicted times on the Western Power website if damage is discovered.”

The affects suburbs are: Byford, Armadale, Brookdale, Seville Grove, Bedfordale, Hilbert, Serpentine, Mt Nasura, Mt Richon and Oakford.

If anyone sees a fallen powerline or damage to the network from storms they should make the Safe Call to Western Power on 13 13 51 and stay at least 8 meters away.

Weather forecasters say Perth is set for a very stormy Thursday with up to 10mm of rain expected to fall in parts of the metro area and a chance of a thunderstorm later in the afternoon.

via Perth weather: lightning strike leaves around 25,000 homes without power | PerthNow

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

#F1 Ricciardo takes on Austrian F1 circuit in a caravan

WE’RE used to seeing Dan Ricciardo tearing it up on the Formula One circuits around the world.

But how does the Perth speedster go driving an Aston Martin with a 400kg caravan attached?

Ricciardo went head-to-head with his Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen in a fun-filled race around Austria’s F1 track.

Spoiler alert – the caravans might not make it through the entire video.

VIDEO: Perth Formula One driver Dan Ricciardo takes on Austrian F1 circuit in a caravan | Perth Now

Han’s Cafe owner fined for underpaying workers | Perth Now

THE operator of a Perth restaurant chain has been fined nearly $40,000 for underpaying the foreign workers she employed.

The operator and franchise owner of several well-known Han’s Cafe restaurants, Tram Hoang Han, and several companies she was a sole director of have been fined a total of $37,500 in the Federal Court of Australia.

Ms Han had shown a flagrant disregard for her obligations to comply with minimum award pay rates, said the Fair Work Ombudsman, which brought the case against her.

She was found to have underpaid 100 employees across four restaurants by at least $30,440.06,

MORE: Han’s Cafe owner fined for underpaying workers | Perth Now

JetBlue flight makes emergency landing after battery fire

A JetBlue flight from New York to San Francisco was diverted on Tuesday after a lithium battery caught fire in the aircraft’s cabin, authorities said.

JetBlue Flight 915 left JFK International for San Francisco International but was diverted to Gerald R. Ford International in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at around 8 p.m. ET, after the battery from a passenger’s laptop caught fire, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

Officials at Gerald R. Ford International said the aircraft had 158 people on board and that the flight landed “without incident.”…

MORE: JetBlue flight makes emergency landing after battery fire – ABC News

Trump pulling U.S. out of Paris climate deal: Axios

U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Axios news outlet reported on Wednesday, citing two unidentified sources with direct knowledge of the decision.

Trump who has previously called global warming a hoax, refused to endorse the landmark climate change accord at a summit of the G7 group of wealthy nations on Saturday, saying he needed more time to decide. He then tweeted that he would make an announcement this week.

Fox News also cited an unidentified source confirming the pullout.

The accord, agreed on by nearly 200 countries in Paris in 2015, aims to limit planetary warming in part by slashing carbon dioxide and other emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. Under the pact, the United States committed to reducing its emissions by 26 to 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.

Axios said details of the pullout are being worked out by a team…

MORE: Trump pulling U.S. out of Paris climate deal: Axios | Reuters

Homeless Manchester HERO reunites with mother

A homeless man who came to the aid of the Manchester Arena bombing victims has been reunited with his estranged mother – after she spotted him in news reports of the attack.

Chris Parker, 33, was in the foyer area of the venue when the device went off as music fans left the Ariana Grande concert last Monday, killing 22 people and injuring dozens more.

Jessica Parker saw her son for the first time in five years on Friday.

‘It was heart wrenching, absolutely heart wrenching to know that he actually still wanted his mum,’ she told the BBC.

‘He told me very matter-of-factly what he did and said, ‘Mum, I’ve just done what anybody else would do’…

MORE: Homeless Manchester hero reunites with mother

NSW thrash Queensland to win Origin I

NSW have taken a 1-0 lead in the State of Origin series with a 28-4 win over Queensland at Suncorp Stadium.

NSW have taken a one-nil lead in the State of Origin series after a dominant 28-4 win over Queensland in Brisbane on Wednesday night.

The Blues scored five tries to one including four-pointers to giant front-rower Andrew Fifita and returning hero Jarryd Hayne in front of a near sell-out crowd at Suncorp Stadium.

NSW can secure just their second series victory since 2006 if they beat the Maroons at ANZ Stadium in Sydney for game two on June 21.

Source: NSW thrash Queensland to win Origin I | SBS News

Veteran Margaret Court says tennis ‘full of lesbians’

Australian tennis legend Margaret Court is again in the headlines, saying her sport is ‘full of lesbians’, which comes just days after her controversial boycott of Qantas airlines over CEO Alan Joyce’s involvement in the same-sex marriage debate.

Court, who is now a pastor, told radio show Vision Christian Radio: “Tennis is full of lesbians, because even when I was playing there was only a couple there, but those couple that led, that took young ones into parties and things.”

“And you know, what you get at the top is often what you’ll get right through that sport,” she said.

“We’re there to help them overcome. We’re not against the people.”

Court drew public criticism last week after writing an open letter saying that she would not fly with Qantas Airlines due to its support for same-sex marriage

Source: Veteran Margaret Court says tennis ‘full of lesbians’ | SBS News

Silicon Valley: the best and only comedy you should be watching

While people gab endlessly about lesser shows, this sitcom about a tech startup has been quietly scaling ever more majestic heights

I’m going to tell you two things that are unequivocally true. First, Silicon Valley is the best comedy on television at the moment. Second, not nearly enough people are talking about it.

I’ve spent the last couple of months watching the internet froth itself dry over a succession of lesser comedies – your Kimmy Schmidts, your Car Shares, your Masters of None – while Silicon Valley has quietly scaled ever more peerlessly majestic heights. And now I’m here to say stop. Enough is enough. Silicon Valley is astonishing. The fact that you’re not watching it is ridiculous.

If you’re new to it, Silicon Valley is a sitcom about a tech startup called Pied Piper. Its CEO is Richard Hendricks, a prodigiously gifted coder whose desire to always play fair puts him directly in the sights of all the sharks and wolves…

Not a place in paradise awaiting terrorists – but hate preachers who exploit vulnerable young Muslims in this life

There is not a place in paradise awaiting terrorists – but there are abusive hate preachers who exploit vulnerable young Muslims in this life

The anti-Islam bandwagon has resurfaced in the wake of the Manchester attack, led by extremist commentators and a whole host of Islamophobes on social media. They reaffirm false ideologies spouted by Muslim radicals. The most popular of these false beliefs is that murdering innocents will take you to Heaven.

It won’t; according to the Quran, calling yourself a Muslim does not, in itself, make you worthy of paradise. Neither does killing people. After all, it was the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) who said, “a Muslim is one from whose hands and tongue people are safe.”

The Keepers: true-crime series to take the world by storm ‘better than Making a Murderer’

The Keepers, a seven-part series

The latest Netflix true-crime series to take the world by storm is The Keepers, a seven-part series focused on the unsolved murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik.

Baltimore nun Cesnik was murdered at the age of 26 in 1969 and, to this day, both the identity of her killer and cause of death have been shrouded in secrecy.

Viewers have been stunned by the twists and turns of the investigation that was spearheaded by Gemma Hoskins and Abbie Schaub, two former students of Archbishop Keough, the school where Cesnik taught at the time of her death.

Many articles have gone so far as claimed that the Ryan White-directed series is even superior to Netflix’s other true crime sensation, Making a Murderer.

Source: The Keepers: Netflix’s true crime documentary that’s ‘better than Making a Murderer’ | The Independent

Marnie Simpson bares her boobs in Geordie Shore after Chloe Ferry sex confession

MARNIE Simpson is very body confident in Geordie Shore – as she proved last night. The reality star stripped her top off in the middle of a club in last night’s episode, baring her boob…

Marnie also opened up about her short-lived relationship with Gaz Beadle

In Stripped Bare, Marnie admits she was desperate for the scenes not to air and revealed MTV bosses had cut it from the show as it was “too X-rated”.

She said: “Chloe was laughing about it and saying, ‘Oh, it’s fine man,’ and I was like, ‘It’s not fine. I’ve got a boyfriend.’”

More here: Marnie Simpson strips off and bares her boobs in Geordie Shore after Chloe Ferry sex confession

Russia successfully tests ‘unstoppable’ 4,600mph hypersonic weapon

The Zircon cruise missile travels between 3,800mph and 4,600mph – five to six times the speed of sound – and puts Russia ‘half a decade’ ahead of the US’, the report says.

This makes it faster than any anti-missile system, including those that are expected to appear in the next two decades.

All the available information about Zircon is based on rare comments from Russian officials and media leaks, which were not played down by the military and defense experts.

Dmitry Kornev, editor of Militaryrussia.ru, which collected the most complete profile on the Zircon missile, told RBTH that he believes the missiles were already launched from a Yasen-class attack submarine.

Source: Russia successfully tests ‘unstoppable’ 4,600mph hypersonic weapon | TechPowerUp Forums

United Flew a Plane That Wasn’t Airworthy 23 Times, FAA Says

United Airlines operated a plane that was “not in airworthy condition” during 23 domestic and international flights, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

On Tuesday, the FAA alleged that United flew the unsafe aircraft for a few weeks in June 2014 and is seeking a $435,000 civil penalty against the airline.

According to the FAA, United replaced a faulty fuel pump switch on a Boeing 787, but did not inspect the aircraft properly after that.

Source: United Flew a Plane That Wasn’t Airworthy 23 Times, FAA Says | Fortune.com

Kabul attack: 5 BBC workers among victims in Afghanistan suicide bombing

Five BBC workers and their Afghan driver were caught up in the suicide bombing outside the Germany embassy in Kabul, the corporation has said.

The attack killed at least 80 people and injured more than 300. No group has yet claimed responsibility, but the Taliban has denied involvement. Source: Kabul attack: BBC workers among victims in Afghanistan suicide bombing | The Independent

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Covfefe: Trump may have just invented the word of 2017 (even if it was an accident)

If the President isn’t impressed about negative press covfefe coverage, he likely won’t be happy about the reaction to his midnight social media slip-up.