Police say a 2-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl boy were stabbed Sunday 11:00am in the 3100 block of Law Street. They were both taken to the hospital by a private car. The 4-year-old girl died at the hospital and the 2-year-old boy is in critical condition. Police say the New Orleans Police Department’s Child Abuse Section has arrested 31-year-old Janee Pedescleaux for Second Degree Murder, Attempted Murder and Second Degree Cruelty to a Juvenile. Detectives say Pedescleaux was taken to the Orleans Justice Center. The investigation shows the incident is guardian related in nature. Child Abuse Detective Mario Bravo is the lead detective, and can be reached with any information that can help with the investigation. (504) 658-5267
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Police say a 2-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl boy were stabbed Sunday 11:00am in the 3100 block of Law Street. They were both taken to the hospital by a private car. The 4-year-old girl died at the hospital and the 2-year-old boy is in critical condition.
Police say the New Orleans Police Department’s Child Abuse Section has arrested 31-year-old Janee Pedescleaux for Second Degree Murder, Attempted Murder and Second Degree Cruelty to a Juvenile. Detectives say Pedescleaux was taken to the Orleans Justice Center.
The investigation shows the incident is guardian related in nature. Child Abuse Detective Mario Bravo is the lead detective, and can be reached with any information that can help with the investigation. (504) 658-5267
Experts say Australian renters are bearing the brunt of an industry-wide housing crisis, with some reporting rent rises as much as $150 a week.
But the experts say there is no quick fix and fear the situation is set to worsen.
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A lack of supply combined with four consecutive interest rate rises has increased the average rental price across Australia’s capital cities by up to $55 over the course of a year.
RMIT Center for Urban Research senior research fellow Dr Megan Nethercote said it was going to get worse before it got better.
Australian renters are bearing the brunt of an industry-wide housing crisis. Credit: Getty Images
“With the latest interest rate rise and subsequent belt-tightening, renters risk their landlords passing on the costs of rising mortgage repayments,” Nethercote said.
“Some renters will lose their homes as landlords sell up.
“The plight of renters looks set to worsen as the knock-on effects of rising interest rates filter through to renters and combine with cost-of-living pressures.
“With almost half of renters on rental assistance already in rental stress, the risk of some renters falling into homelessness is real and high.”
How much are rents rising by?
Rents rose across the board in the year to June, according to Domain’s latest rental report.
The average rent for a house across the capital cities rose from $460 to $515 while units increased from $410 to $460.
RMIT research fellow Dr Louise Dorignon said rent prices were driven by demand. The only way to balance prices was to increase supply, she said.
Tenants are reporting their rent increasing in recent months, coinciding with rate rises.
The latest RBA decision on Tuesday increased the cash rate by 0.5 per cent, effectively adding $174 to monthly repayments for the average Australian mortgage holder.
Is it legal for your landlord to put up rent?
Tenant advocacy groups and industry experts have previously told 7NEWS.com.au there was nothing stopping landlords from passing on that cost to tenants.
“Landlords can increase rent due to an interest rate rise, however, they need to be prepared for tenants to push back if it’s not warranted or it’s excessive,” property management agency :Different head of customer experience Shannyn Laird said.
“Landlords can also increase the rent if the lease is periodic (meaning it’s not fixed) and the tenant hasn’t had a rent increase in a certain time period.”
Weekly rents rose by 2.2 per cent in the three months to June, with yearly growth at seven per cent. Credit: AAP
How often can a landlord put up your rent?
Laws on how frequently a landlord can increase rent vary depending on the Australian jurisdiction.
In Queensland and Western Australia, in most cases, landlords can only increase rent every six months and must give 60 days’ notice.
In Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT, landlords can increase rent once every 12 months and must also give roughly two months’ notice.
In the Northern Territory, landlords can increase rent once every six months and only have to give 30 days’ notice.
Is there a limit to how much your rent can go up?
Your landlord can increase the rent, but there are rules on how much they can increase it by.
In most cases, it must be considered as not being “excessive” or “unreasonable”.
Tenants can complain to their jurisdiction’s Civil and Administrative Tribunal if they feel it is excessive.
What constitutes excessive differs in each jurisdiction. But, generally, rental bodies compare the increase to similar market rents and the physical condition of the property.
What can be done to fix the issue?
In short, quite a bit.
Dorignon said the current apartment stock doesn’t provide sufficient quality to meet the needs of current and future households.
“We need to transition to alternative and innovative modes of housing production, such as using less carbon-intensive materials, which would create more liveable apartment homes and, in the long term, more affordable ones for households,” Dorignon said.
Nethercote said renters represented a “growing cohort” in Australia.
“Renters deserve homes that are affordable, provide adequate security of tenure, are well-maintained and have appropriate provisions for tenant representation,” Nethercote said.
“Meeting these needs requires strong national leadership on housing; they warrant serious deliberation within a new national housing agenda.”
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slimerancher is a game that has lived in my Steam wishlist for 5 years. A game that I have had my eye on since it was released, and yet a game that I did not touch until this year.
I know, I know, I am a fool. Please take this opportunity to point and laugh at me, the Court Jester that has fallen ass-first into a freshly-baked pie. My silly jester’s cap jingles with embarrassment. I am, unforgivably, the village idiot.
Alright, stop now. It’s hurting my feelings.
when Slime Rancher showed up on the PlayStation Plus games catalogue, I knew this was it. It was finally time for me to get slimy (sorry). So I downloaded it, opened it up, and haven’t been able to put it down since. It is pure, unadulterated joy.
I’m sure that in the 5 years that this game has existed, there have been people like me that have had this game sitting in their Steam wishlist or simply on their ‘I’ll get to that’ list. In saying this, considering the game is on both Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus Extra, here’s your nudge to get it and play it.
As well as that, I’d love to talk a little bit about what I’m hoping for in Slime Rancher 2which is scheduled to hit Early Access in the Spring of this year (so in the next few months!).
My experience as a Slime Rancher
Image: Monomi Park
I wake up in a world I am not familiar with. I’ve got a handheld vacuum that looks like that MFin’ thang I keep on me. I live in a desert igloo. It’s slime time, baby.
From the get-go, Slime Rancher is smooth as hell. At first, getting money is a slow process, as I simply have to get all my shit together. But once I’ve set up a little farm on the side and a few slime enclosures, it’s easy breezy.
I love this game. I love video games, and this one is a video game that I love. Plain and simple. The directions are clear, the slimes are cute, and the plorts are plentiful. Every new slime I’ve discovered has become a new friend, even though sometimes they hurt me.
The gameplay is incredibly easy to pick up, and the graphics are the perfect marriage of detailed and stylized. You’re constantly being given new opportunities to do new things in the game, and just when you think you’re plateauing, something new comes up.
The genius decision I made at one point was unlocking The Grotto, planting nothing but Cuberry trees in it, and collecting a bajillion Phosphor slimes and chucking them in there. My life has not known peace since this day, but I’m rolling in plorts.
Slime Rancher has very quickly become a favorite game for me, easily being one of the most unique farming games I’ve ever played, so here’s what I’m hoping for in Slime Rancher 2.
My hopes and dreams for the sequel
Image: Monomi Park
Straight off the bat, the trailer already nails the first thing I’m hoping for: more slimes.
You got the bunny slimes, the angler slimes, the butterfly slimes, and the bat slimes. Of course, these are only the new slimes we see in the trailer. I’m sure there’s plenty more slime where they came from. I’m hooked. Plug me in. I’m ready to go.
Honestly, it’s really difficult to think of what could be improved on from Slime Rancher. In my opinion, it’s a pretty perfect game. I’d love it if the new game includes more biomes than the first, but even then the biomes provided in Slime Rancher are great.
Maybe this would make it a bit too easy, but I think it would also benefit from having a bit more variety in terms of where slimes are found. I found myself only mainly being able to find Pink, Tabby, and Rock slimes wherever I went, with the odd rarer slime becoming a Pink Slime hybrid if I weren’t quick enough to suck it up before it gobbled a pink plort up.
I’d also say allowing for a bit more flexibility with where the farming plots can be placed in the game would be great, but I also really love the look of the greenhouse shown in the Slime Rancher 2 trailer.
That all being said, this is major nitpicking considering it’s hard to build on something so perfect. At the end of the day, we just want more slime. More slime. More slime!
I can’t wait to see what Monomi Park has in store for Slime Rancher 2and I highly recommend revisiting Slime Rancher if you haven’t yet. I was a fool, but now my eyes are open, and all they can see are slimes.
Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott put on a loved-up display in new selfies as the billionaire declares she’s in a ‘Utopia with you’
By Ashleigh Gray For Dailymail.Com
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Kylie Jenner took to Instagram on Sunday to share intimate selfies taken with her partner Travis Scott.
The entrepreneur — who is days away from turning 25 — snapped mirror selfies as her boyfriend held her waist and showered her in affection.
Referencing his upcoming album and tour the reality TV phenom wrote in the caption, ‘utopia with you,’ and Travis, 31, replied in the comments: ‘We out.’
Social media: Kylie Jenner took to Instagram on Sunday to share intimate selfies taken with beau Travis Scott
Jenner, whose birthday is August 10, wore a charcoal gray shirt and textured matte black pants in the photos.
She wore her raven locks in a half-up, half-down style as she captured her and their reflection.
She handled her encased iPhone with immaculately manicured hands, boasting a long, stiletto shape on her pearly nude nails.
Travis wore his long hair in individual braids that hung over his face and neck. He wore futuristic goggles over his eyes and large diamond studs in his ears.
Sweet: The almost 25-year-old entrepreneur snapped mirror selfies as her boyfriend held her waist and showered her in affection
The Houston-bred rapper complemented Kylie’s color palette as he donned gray shirt jacket that he kept unbuttoned.
Underneath it he wore a lighter-colored shirt with a graphic print across the front.
The twosome — who share daughter Stormi, four, and a six-month-old son whose name hasn’t been revealed — cozied up in a dressing room.
It comes after Kylie showed support for her partner as she and Stormi attended his concert at London’s storied O2 arena on Saturday.
Supportive: Referencing his upcoming album and tour the reality TV phenom wrote in the caption, ‘utopia with you’
Jenner shared behind-the-scenes moments from the show and their time overseas with a slideshow shared online.
One video showed a pumped up Scott screaming and kicking for joy after his set was complete.
He was supported by members of his camp who cheered him on and poured water on him as he revealed in the residual energy of his performance.
After the entertainer cooled down, the couple made a sartorial switch as they headed to dinner.
His girls: Kylie showed support for her partner as she and Stormi attended his concert at London’s storied O2 arena on Saturday
The duo coordinated their fashion-forward outfits, both donning leather moto jackets that were red and white.
Kylie’s Mugler jacket was shrunken and she teamed it with a double denim miniskirt with a frayed hemline.
She showed off her killer legs in the look, which was punctuated by pointed-toe black heels with stringy straps.
The Kylie Cosmetics founder carried a textured black clutch and modeled a pair of sporty black sunglasses.
Outfit details: Kylie shared her fashion-forward street style with her 364 million Instagram followers
For his part, the music mogul wore a light-colored pair of pants with cargo-style pockets.
He hit the streets of London in sneakers from his popular collaboration with Nike, the Travis Scott x Air Jordan 1 Low.
Travis has been slowly stepping back into the limelight following last November’s deadly Astroworld Festival, at which ten people were killed in a deadly crowd surge during his headlining set.
The music artist’s London concert came days after he announced a seven-day residence in Las Vegas called Road To Utopia.
This summer the rapper and producer began performing again, including taking to the stage for a Fourth of July performance in Coney Island.
Jet-setters: The duo coordinated their fashion-forward outfits, both donning leather moto jackets that were red and white as they stepped out in London on Saturday
An emotional Nick Kyrgios has spoken of his struggles to discover his best form after ending a three-year title drought with victory in the Citi Open final in Washington. The Australian took just 81 minutes to defeat Japanese giant-killer Yoshihito Nishioka 6-4, 6-3 in Sunday’s final to claim his first ATP Tour title since winning at the same event in 2019.
The 27-year-old then backed up his win by claiming the doubles title alongside American Jack Sock – his third doubles success of the year. Shortly after lifting the men’s singles trophy, Kyrgios combined with Sock to defeat Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek 7-5, 6-4.
The sensational week in the American capital continues a career-best year for Kyrgios after reaching his first career grand slam final at Wimbledon, where he lost Novak Djokovic.
Despite not earning any rankings points at Wimbledon due to the ATP’s objection to a ban on Russian and Belarusian players, Kyrgios’s win in Washington lifts him to 37th on the world rankings. Ahead of big events in Montreal and Cincinnati, it means Kyrgios is closing in on an all-important seeding for the US Open starting on 29 August in New York.
“To see where I was at last year to now, it’s just an incredible transformation,” Kyrgios said in a post-match interview. “I just came out with great energy. I knew that I had experience on my side today. I love this court, I’ve played so many good matches here, so I’m just really happy with myself.
“I’ve been in some really dark places. Just to be able to turn it around … there are so many people who have helped me get there, but myself, I’ve shown some serious strength to just continue and persevere and get through all those times and be able to still perform and win tournaments like this one.”
Kyrgios’s serve was imperious throughout the tournament, getting through 64 matches in the tournament without being broken once. The 27-year-old fired down 12 aces in Sunday’s final against Nishioka, also hitting 32 winners in a confident display to secure his seventh career title.
Having won the doubles title in Atlanta last week with fellow Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis, Kyrgios then went back-to-back partnering Sock in a straight-sets win over Dodig and Krajicek. As in his singles win, Kyrgios and Sock held serve throughout the final, winning 95 per cent of points on their first serve in the 79-minute victory.
The federal government has announced $13 million in funding for a new large-scale composting facility in Canberra.
Key points:
The facility will divert 50,000 tonnes of food and garden waste from landfill annually
A new materials recovery center will also be built to improve the quality of recycled products
A recycling advocate says education is key to composting success
The facility will be built in Hume and will process food and garden waste collected from household green bins across the city.
City Services Minister Chris Steel said the new facility was an essential part of the food organics and garden organics (FOGO) rollout in the ACT.
“It will turn around 50,000 tonnes of food and organic waste into valuable compost for use in the agriculture and viticulture of our region, and gardens,” he said.
“This is incredibly important for climate change, this is our third largest source of emissions.”
‘True circular process’
FOGO collection and processing is expected to cut the ACT’s waste emissions by 30 per cent. (ABC News: Harry Frost)
About 5,000 households in Belconnen, Bruce, Cook and Macquarie are currently trialling a FOGO collection system.
Mr Steel said that service would be expanded to include all ACT households once the new facility was up and running.
“This is going to be a fantastic story,” he said.
“This is Canberrans’ food waste that will be turned into compost, so that we can return those nutrients—which are otherwise going to landfill—to the soil to improve our soil and then grow our food again.
“So, it will be a true circular process.”
It’s not yet known what items will and won’t be allowed in the new FOGO processing stream. (ABC News: Harry Frost)
Mr Steel said a new $23 million recycling facility would also be built in Hume.
“We were partnering with [the federal government] to upgrade the existing facility to process our plastic, aluminium, paper and cardboard products, as well as glass,” he said.
“But as we’ve progressed through the design process, we’ve now come to the conclusion that it would be better for us to build a new state-of-the-art materials recovery facility adjacent to the existing site.”
He said the government would now go through a procurement process and he hoped both facilities would be operational within 18 months, though he noted the unpredictably of the current construction market.
Education key to FOGO success
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Zero Waste Evolution chair Mia Swainson discusses the new Canberra composting facility.
Zero Waste Evolution chair Mia Swainson welcomed the funding injection and said a simple, targeted education program would be essential ahead of the FOGO facility coming online.
“The key is bringing Canberrans on the journey, making sure that people know what can go into the processing and what can’t,” she said.
“Depending on the technology, there’ll be different food and garden waste from around the house that can go in and some that can’t.
“So, keeping that contamination level down low will be really key to success.”
Ms Swainson said success would require a new way of thinking about waste for many Canberrans.
“Globally the trend is for… all of the organic waste to be recycled and reprocessed,” she said.
“Yes, it’s a bit of a change and a cultural shift, but, overtime people get used to it and it’s just how we build our lives.”
National Park Service rangers found more human remains at the drought-hit Lake Mead National Recreation Area to the east of Las Vegas over the weekend.
Why it matters: It’s fourth such discovery in the nation’s largest reservoir by volume since May as a megadrought sinks Lake Mead’s water levels to the lowest since 1937, per AP.
Details: “National Park Service rangers received an emergency call reporting the discovery of human skeletal remains at Swim Beach in Lake Mead National Recreation Area,” Nevada, on Saturday morning, according to an NPS statement.
Park rangers worked to recover the remains with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s dive team, the NPS said.
The Clark County Medical Examiner is investigating the cause of death.
Driving the news: The Southwest is in the grip of a megadrought lasting more than two decades and studies show it’s more severe than any in at least 1,200 years, which is being driven in large part by climate change, Axios’ Andrew Freedman notes.
The big pictures: Lake Mead spans Nevada and Arizona and is part of the vast Colorado River basin that provides water for agriculture and human consumption to seven states, while also generating electricity at the massive Hoover Dam.
Go deeper: New Colorado River drought discovery shows how bad things can get
A young Melbourne couple have been roasted online after “impulse buying” a $1.5 million East Brunswick terrace at auction.
But the agent who sold the property has now spoken out, saying the backlash from “keyboard warriors” is unfair and that the sale has been misrepresented.
Property website Domain published an article on Saturday about the young buyers of 110 Barkly Street, which sold under the hammer after the couple pipped another bidder for just $500.
Darcy and Tessa, who declined to give their last names, ultimately paid $1,500,500 for the deceased estate, which went to auction with a price guide of $1.3 million to $1.43 million.
“To be honest we weren’t really looking, we were just looking casually and this one popped up,” Tessa told Domain.
Darcy added, “There’s a bit of concern around with what housing prices are doing but this one really stood out to us, and it turned out we got it.”
The couple said they planned to fix up the terrace and rent it out in the short term before moving in later and doing further renovation.
Darcy said while interest rate rises were “certainly something to consider”, the couple were “in a good position with renting it out at this point”.
“From our point of view we can pass that on to the rental market,” he said.
The article went viral on Reddit after a user on the Melbourne forum posted a screenshot of the headline.
“I guess I don’t feel so bad about impulse buying a Snickers at the Coles checkout now,” they wrote.
“I mean we’ve all been there, right? Just wandering down the street to get coffee or something, you’ve got $1.5 million burning a hole in your pocket and you stumble across an auction – damn it! Did I really just buy a house again? Man my wife is going to give me a hard time about this when I get back.”
One person replied, “I genuinely know two people who have done this. One whilst driving past on the way to visit a friend (investment property in Footscray), and the other whose husband came home and announced he’d bought a new family home. WTF.”
Another wrote, “Joke’s on them, be at least $500,000 less in about six months.”
Ray White Glenroy auctioneer Stefan Stella told news.com.au on Monday he felt the reaction from “keyboard warriors” online had been “pretty harsh”.
“As much as it said they weren’t really looking, they did see it on the first open, came multiple times – they were there three times,” he said.
“In my opinion they were probably always going to get it. The underbidder only saw it in the last week. I think what they may have meant was they weren’t actively looking and religiously out there every Saturday, that’s potentially the message they were trying to get across.”
It comes after the Reserve Bank hiked interest rates for the fourth month in a row last week.
The 50 basis-point increase at the central bank’s August meeting brings the official cash rate to 1.85 per cent, up from the record low 0.1 per cent it was up until May.
Already, the rise in interest rates has pushed house prices down in most major cities as borrowers stare down the barrel of higher monthly payments.
PropTrack’s Home Price Index shows a national decline of 1.66 per cent in prices since March, but some regions have seen much sharper falls.
“As repayments become more expensive with rising interest rates, housing affordability will decline, prices pushing further down,” PropTrack senior economist Eleanor Creagh said.
Andy Lee, 41, reveals the real reason he is yet to pop the question to his girlfriend of seven years Rebecca Harding
By Caleb Taylor For Daily Mail Australia
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He’s been criticized for failing to propose to his model girlfriend Rebecca Harding after seven years together.
And on Monday, Andy Lee revealed the real reason he is yet to get down on one knee.
When quizzed by a potential engagement on KIIS FM’s the Kyle and Jackie O Show, the 41-year-old comedian comically said: ‘I’m just waiting for Bec to do it.’
Andy Lee, 41, revealed the real reason he is yet to pop the question to his girlfriend of seven years Rebecca Harding during a radio interview on Monday
The radio and TV star joked that he gets ‘so upset’ every time the couple go away and Bec fails to ask for his hand in marriage.
Host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson went on to question if Bec actually would actually do it.
When quizzed by a potential engagement on KIIS FM’s the Kyle and Jackie O Show, the 41-year-old comedian comically said: ‘I’m just waiting for Bec to do it’
‘She might do it,’ Andy said, before saying he wouldn’t like it if she was the one to ask because ‘he is a little bit old school in that regard.’
He went on to say that Bec was ‘pretty old school’ too, meaning she would wait for him to get on bended knee and propose.
The Hundred host then confessed he loves to trick the paparazzi by getting on his knee and pretending to propose when he would spot them.
The radio and TV star joked that he gets ‘so upset’ every time the couple go away and Bec fails to ask for his hand in marriage
Andy was recently trolled following the couple’s holiday in Greece last month.
Fans flooded his Instagram comments section asking why the radio star is taking so long to make the brunette beauty his wife.
‘You need to put a ring on her,’ one person wrote. ‘Bend the knee,’ another said.
Andy was recently trolled following the couple’s holiday in Greece last month. Fans flooded his Instagram comments section of him asking why the radio star is taking so long to make the brunette beauty his wife
‘Andy is soo going to propose to Bec on this trip,’ another one commented. ‘Where’s the ring?,’ one asked.
‘Time to put a ring on it Andy,’ another said.
Andy has previously stated his intention to marry Bec.
The couple famously met at a cafe where Bec was waitressing before Andy slipped her his contact details.
Andy and Rebecca have been dating on and off for almost eight years and are often the subject of engagement rumors
The career-best season of Nick Kyrgios has continued, with the Australian claiming his first ATP Tour title in three years at the Citi Open in Washington.
Kyrgios took just 81 minutes to defeat Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka 6-4, 6-3 in Sunday’s final (Monday AEST), firing down 12 aces in the straight sets to win over the world No.96.
Nick Kyrgios lies on court after his victory in the final.Credit:AP
The 27-year-old also recorded 32 winners in the triumph as he completed the tournament having held serve 64 times without being broken.
It’s Kyrgios’ seventh ATP Tour title and first since he won at Washington in 2019.
“It’s just very emotional for me,” he said in a post-match interview.
“To see where I was at last year to now, it’s just an incredible transformation. I just came out with great energy. I knew that I had experience on my side today. I love this court, I’ve played so many good matches here, so I’m just really happy with myself.
“I’ve been in some really dark places. Just to be able to turn it around… There are so many people who have helped me get there, but myself, I’ve shown some serious strength to just continue and persevere and get through all those times and be able to still perform and win tournaments like this one.”
Victory means Kyrgios remains unbeaten since his loss to Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final and lifts him to 37th on the world rankings.
