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But her spat with the first lady's staff over Mrs. Trump's trip to Africa -- apparently over seating on the plane and the use of National Security Council resources -- seems to have earned her the enmity of the person who may wield the most weight with Trump: his wife. |
The President told people on Tuesday that he had made the decision to fire Ricardel, but that he was giving her time to clear her desk, making her the latest in a long list of high ranking officials who have left or been booted from the Trump administration. |
Ricardel did not return requests for comment. |
Ricardel was raised in Pasadena, the child of a Croatian immigrant and went on to study at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and then do doctoral work at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. |
She went on to hold positions in three Republican administrations, working in the departments of State, Defense and Commerce, as well as acting as an aide to then Republican Senate leader Bob Dole. She has also worked in the private sector, including at Boeing, before becoming a member of Trump's presidential transitio... |
National security adviser John Bolton, who was in Singapore when news of Ricardel's dismissal broke, said when he tapped her to be his deputy in April that she "has a track record of successfully managing teams and diverse organizations, as well as addressing complex issues." |
And yet repeatedly during Ricardel's tenure, news stories trickled out of the troubled White House that suggested she wasn't managing teams or working within them particularly well. |
Most famously, she clashed with Mattis during the transition. Ricardel blocked some of his picks for Pentagon positions because they included former Obama administration officials who she felt were not strict Republican loyalists, multiple defense officials have told CNN. |
Mattis then blocked Ricardel from getting a high level job at the Pentagon. In the months since Ricardel's arrival at the NSC, White House sources have repeatedly leaking stories to the press saying that Ricardel and Bolton were spreading rumors about Mattis' imminent departure in an effort to pressure the Pentagon chi... |
Bolton and Ricardel allegedly believe that Mattis is not "ideologically aligned" with Trump, according to Foreign Policy magazine, which quoted a former official saying that the two were trying "to build the sense that he is done for." |
A former Trump transition official who is close to Ricardel said Ricardel thinks Mattis "never should have been appointed and thinks he's a Democrat and tells anyone who will listen." |
Ricardel also had a fraught relationship with Kelly and Fuentes, according to people familiar with the matter. Kelly and Fuentes believed Ricardel was leaking negative stories about them to the press, those sources said. |
But Ricardel seems to have crossed a line in taking on Melania Trump's office over the first lady's trip to Africa in October, making what some viewed as challenging requests and being obstinate, the White House official told CNN. |
Since then, the source continued, some officials said she has been dishonest about what went on and leaked stories to try and cover her behavior. |
The former Trump transition official said they were not surprised to hear that Ricardel butted heads with the first lady and her staff, saying, "she does not suffer fools." The former transition official characterized Ricardel as "smart and tough," but acknowledged that she is not always effective at navigating "intern... |
The latest round of promotions since Nancy Dubuc's elevation to CEO makes a quartet of senior vps at Lifetime, BIO, History and H2. |
A+E Networks has doled out promotions to four key programming executives, upping all to the role of senior vice president. Elaine Frontain Bryant, Paul Cabana, Mary Donahue and Gena McCarthy will also assume their new positions effective Sept. 3. |
The latest round of promotions since Nancy Dubuc was upped to CEO in April, the moves find Frontain Bryant as senior vp development at History, Cabana as senior vp and head of programming at H2, Donahue as senior vp non-fiction programming at Lifetime and McCarthy as senior vp programming at BIO. |
BIO president Jana Bennett, History and H2 executive vp and GM Dirk Hoogstra and Lifetime executive vp and GM Rob Sharenow made the announcement on Monday. |
Frontain Bryant, who has been with A&E since 2005, moves to History in the shuffle, while Cabana has been leading H2 for almost two years. History vet Donahue, who has been vp programming and development since 2010, moves to Lifetime, and McCarthy heads from Lifetime to BIO. |
Hoogstra and Sharenow were both promoted into their new positions in June, the same time Bennett boarded A+E from BBC Worldwide. |
Sunnie Sacks St. Mary's High School senior Christina Ruffini has been a prosecuting attorney with Teen Court for a year and a half. She says the experience has confirmed her desire to become an attorney. |
For more on Teen Court, call 475-7815. |
Teen Court seeks high-school students to volunteer as jury members, bailiffs and attorneys. They also seek adults to help with fundraising, and attorneys to serve as mentors. |
Don't expect a bald bailiff named Bull or a lascivious prosecutor at 224 E. Kiowa St. Though Teen Court meets four evenings a month in the Municipal Courts Building with judges, juries and oaths galore, it's no comedy. |
Founded in 1994 by Barby Schlabs and Pat Ezell, two former teachers and attorney spouses, Teen Court serves as an alternative to the traditional juvenile justice system. |
Say you're a 14-year-old whose failed attempt at a five-finger discount has landed you in front of a municipal court judge. Typically, you would face a fine, a year's probation and be on your way. Schlabs, Teen Court's executive director, says this was something she repeatedly witnessed during her teaching tenure -- a ... |
What Teen Court provides is a second chance with a hefty dose of accountability -- a word one hears quite often from the adolescent volunteers who serve as the court's attorneys, bailiffs, and jury members. The punishments meted out to defendants by their peers are typically harsher than a regular court's and though th... |
Teen Court begins with guilt firmly established so there's little by way of surprise witnesses or plea bargains. In addition, cases involving gangs and weapon-related offenses are prohibited. |
Teen Court has two different tracks: a peer panel or the more dramatic trial, over which a bona fide judge presides. Far and away the most common procedure, the peer panel consists of a group of five trained teen attorneys who question defendants in private as to the nature and reasoning of their crime, with a focus on... |
Teen justice can indeed by swift. According to Program Director Pat Ezell, peer panels can process up to 10 cases in a two-hour session. Even the lengthier and more formal trials are likely to cover up to four cases in a three-hour session. |
Christina Ruffini, a senior at St. Mary's High School, has been a prosecuting attorney for a year and a half. The experience has confirmed her desire to become an attorney, and she says she enjoys her work because she says it gives her a chance to really make a difference. It can, however, make things awkward on rare o... |
But expedience is not Teen Court's selling point; rather it's the opportunity it offers to both demystify the legal process, and force teen offenders to own up to their wrongdoing. While a defendant knows a community service sentence will be forthcoming -- hours vary between 4 to 40 -- defendants are also often require... |
Of course Teen Court can't entirely curb the adolescent inclination toward deviance. A few kids sitting behind this reporter were recently overheard swapping "whaddya in for?" tales like hardened cons. One girl qualified her confession of having been sentenced to 11 hours of community service for fighting with an admis... |
But most of the teens sitting on the jury were somber-faced; aside from their mumbles proclaiming their name and school affiliation, there was not a snicker to be heard. |
During one recent session, a 16-year-old named David was sentenced to 25 hours of community service, two nights of teen court jury duty, a letter of apology to his younger brother, and "jail jolt" (a scared straightstyled program that takes juvenile offenders for a tour of the county jail.) -- all for stealing trading ... |
As presiding judge B.J. Sett remarked after the evening's trials, "They [the teen jury] were a lot harder on that boy than I would have been." |
SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - A Shreveport doctor, 11 miles into a race against thousands of other runners, suddenly found herself in a race against time - to save a life. |
“I believe we all have our ‘such a time as this’,” begins Esther Holloway, who only began competitive running less than 2 years ago. |
On March 25, Dr. Holloway was competing in the Dallas Rock and Roll Half Marathon, only her second such race of 13.1 miles long. |
But she now feels it was no coincidence she was running that race, on that day. |
“Maybe that’s one of the reasons God put me here and in the job I’m in,” Holloway continues while being interviewed in her place of employment, Velocity Care Urgent Care on East 70th in Shreveport. |
Holloway says as she rounded a corner nearing the end of the race, she saw another runner lying motionless on the ground. |
Holloway quickly was joined by another doctor and a nurse who also were running in the race, and a Dallas I.S.D. police officer. |
When Holloway says she asked the young lady her name, she responded, “Bailey”. |
“I could tell right away this young lady was really in trouble,” explains Holloway. |
She says Bailey began having a seizure, but then suddenly stopped breathing. |
The two continued CPR for over a minute before 27-year-old Bailey Adam drew her next breath. |
“All of a sudden, she takes a big breath, turns pink and starts breathing again,” Holloway says with a smile. |
Moments later, medics arrived and rushed Bailey to a nearby hospital. |
Holloway began walking then eventually running toward the finish line where her fiance, Paul Lawson, was waiting. |
“She was a good 15 minutes late for the finish," he remembers. |
Once Holloway caught her breath, she shared with her fiance what had happened with just two miles remaining in the race. |
“Sounds like Esther,” reacted Lawson. |
In the days to come, while Holloway returned to the streets of Shreveport preparing for her next half marathon, she learned that Dallas TV news stations began reporting on the miraculous recovery of a runner who had gone into cardiac arrest during a recent race. |
Needless to say, Holloway was thrilled to learn Bailey was making a recovery and had gotten to meet many of her race-day heroes. |
“For someone to pass out in a race and have two doctors, a nurse and a police officer who has a radio and can call for help right there at that moment, that’s nothing but God. I believe that. We were sent,” Holloway shares with tears in her eyes. |
Doctors diagnosed Bailey with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart struggles with pumping the blood. |
She has since been released from the hospital and returned to work. |
When Bailey feels up to it, Holloway says, she’ll be ready to reunite with the young lady she unexpectedly met at mile marker 11. |
Microsoft Corp. /quotes/zigman/20493 /quotes/nls/msft MSFT met with Wall Street analysts on Thursday afternoon, with CEO Steve Ballmer sharing the company’s vision as it undertakes a major restructuring that now includes the integration of Nokia Corp. and the retirement of Ballmer himself within the next year. Rex Crum... |
Meeting is running a bit behind schedule, due to an earlier power outage that brought down the Webcast. CFO Amy Hood is now talking. |
Hood says, “We’re on our journey. And I think our goal today is to point out where we are in some very important examples.” Talks about a transition to a “bigger place”. |
Hood goes over new financial reporting structure…Two main categories: Devices and consumer, and Commercial. |
Oct. 24, new reporting structure takes effect. Will include new outlooks. |
Devices and Consumer category will have three segments: Hardware, Licensing and Other. For Commercial, two segments: Licensing and Other. Company will report revenue and gross margins for each segment, and operating income for each of the two categories. |
Ballmer throws up a chart comparies earnings of Microsof to Amazon, Google, Apple, Oracle, IBM and Salesforce.com. |
“We’ve done pretty well in profit,” Ballmer says, noting Microsoft has made $220 billion in earnings in the last 10 years. |
Ballmer says the company’s cash is “your cash”, referring to shareholders. |
Ballmer says enterprise devices and services will lead Microsoft’s profitability growth. |
“After I retire, I’m just a guy who owns 4% of Microsoft,” Ballmer says. |
Ballmer says he is “very long” in Microsoft…and it’s hard to not believe him. Getting pretty animated now. |
“We’re putting our money and comp to where Steve’s mouth was” — Amy Hood on how the company is incentivizing its workforce to chase the company’s technology goals. |
Ballmer asked about the skill sets to run both a consumer and enterprise business. “We’ve been selling to consumers and businesses since 1985,” Ballmer said. He added that “there is so much shared technology” that the trick is knowing how to grow both. Says the company has an advantage over Google and Amazon this way. |
CFO Amy Hood says the company will work to improve the clarity of its quarterly forecasts. |
Also on Google, Ballmer notes that Microsoft has had discussions with “competition authorities” about the company’s business practices. Adds that Google has the advertising market “pretty well defensed,” so it will take time. |
Asked about Amazon’s low-price approach with AWS as it applies to Azure, COO Kevin Turner notes that Azure started as platform-as-a-service. Also, Turner notes that as the company moves from on-premise to cloud, “we are willing to cannibalize ourselves.” Goal is to get as many customers in the cloud. |
Ballmer: “We are not new to the world of commoditization,” noting that the company has competed against low-cost Linux and other technologies. |
Ballmer says he regrets that there was a period “in the early 2000s that we were so focused on Windows that we didn’t deploy resources on the phone.” Adds that the company was working on Vista at that time – ouch. |
Crescenta Valley 12, Arcadia 6: The Falcons closed out the regular season Thursday with an upset road victory in a Pacific League match. Crescenta Valley improved to 11-4, 9-3 in league to tie for second with Glendale. However, the Falcons will be the third representative out of the league for the playoffs by virtue of... |
“It's a big win and they played great,” said Crescenta Valley Coach San Hyun, whose team handed Arcadia, the league champion, its only league loss of the season. |
The Falcons received a sweep in singles from Albert Chtchyan (6-3, 6-4, 6-1). |
The Rebels also received a record-setting effort junior Barrett Weiss, who broke his own school record of 15 feet in the pole vault with a mark of 15-1. Brother Gareth Weiss was runner-up with a vault of 14-7. |
Flintridge Prep in Prep League individual tournament: Jonah Sacks of Flintridge Prep had an 10-over-par 82 on Thursday at Brookside Golf Course No. 1 in Pasadena. Sacks finished with a two-round score of 163 after carding an 81 on Tuesday. |
Glendale resident Manny Medrano of Pasadena Poly, the reigning league champion, finished fourth with a score of 158 and grabbed the final spot to the CIF Individual Tournament. |
St. Francis 198, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 209: Nathan Han of St. Francis shot a one-over-par 37 on Wednesday to share medalist honors in a Mission League match at Brookside Golf Course No. 1 . Michael Finney had a 38 and Stian Lintvedt shot a 39, respectively for the Golden Knights (10-4 overall, 9-3 in league). |
Holy Family 12, Bishop Conaty-Loretto 11: The Gaels picked up a key Horizon League home victory on Thursday afternoon in walk-off fashion. |
Holy Family sophomore shortstop Tabitha Ruiz was walked with the bases-loaded in the bottom of the seventh to push across teammate Sabrina Rufino with the winning run as the Gaels improved to 3-8 overall and 2-2 in league. |
Ruiz finished two for four with a homer, three RBI and three runs. Ruiz homered in an eight-run third inning for Holy Family. |
Holy Family pitcher Amy Brennan, who fanned nine batters in a complete game effort, was also three for four at the dish. |
The Gaels next have a doubleheader showdown at league-leading Alverno (8-5, 3-0) on Tuesday. |
Alemany 12, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy 4: Visiting Alemany posted four three-run innings versus the Tologs, who fell in a Mission League home contest on Thursday afternoon. |
Junior third baseman Kaitlin Powers drove in two runs for the Tologs (9-8, 0-6). |
Burroughs 15, Hoover 0 (five innings): The Tornadoes were one-hit in a Pacific League road defeat on Thursday afternoon. |
Hoover dropped to 6-9 overall and 2-8 in league this season. |
Hoover 3, Glendale 1: Glendale’s boys’ volleyball rivalry match went to the host Tornadoes, who notched a 12-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-20 victory in Pacific League play on Thursday afternoon. |
The victory was the first league win for the Tornadoes, as the squad finished the regular season with a 2-20 overall mark and a 1-11 league record. |
Glendale dropped to 2-14 and 1-10 in league. |
The real reason SUVs and crossovers are performing so well, Americans can barely afford new cars, Faraday Future is still a mess and more today on The Morning Shift for Monday, Oct. 8, 2018. |
Don’t get it twisted. The real reason SUVs and crossovers are performing so well isn’t as much about cargo space, all-wheel drive for bad weather or our desire to own vehicles that project an image of rugged, outdoorsy individuality: it’s just that for an aging and increasingly unfit population, they’re just easier to ... |
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