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WFO NORMAN Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Norman OK
1246 PM CDT Fri Jul 22 2022
...FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
* WHERE...A portion of northern Texas, including the following
county, Knox.
* WHEN...Until 345 PM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 1246 PM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 3 and 4 inches of rain
have fallen.
- Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are expected over
the area. This additional rain will result in minor flooding.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Munday and Rhineland.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
127 PM CDT Fri Jul 22 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of southeastern San
Augustine and western Sabine Counties through 215 PM CDT...
At 125 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from near Milam to Browndell. Movement was west at 5
mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Milam, Hemphill, Pineland, Rosevine, Bronson and McElroy.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with these storms.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
If on or near Sam Rayburn, get out of the water and move indoors or
inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out to 10 miles
from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close
enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now! Do not
be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
LAT...LON 3113 9419 3152 9401 3149 9374 3148 9375
3116 9390 3114 9404 3112 9404 3111 9406
3110 9413
TIME...MOT...LOC 1825Z 082DEG 5KT 3142 9385 3115 9398
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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(NEXSTAR) – The best part of waking up is mayonnaise in his cup.
Will Levis, the quarterback for the Kentucky Wildcats, is stirring up all sorts of controversy after demonstrating his (allegedly) preferred way to take his morning coffee: by mixing globs and globs of mayonnaise into it.
Levis, a junior at the University of Kentucky, was participating in SEC Media Days at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta this week when he prepared his mayo-infused coffee for all to see, as captured in a video clip shared to Twitter by CBS Sports.
In the video, Levis also claims he’s “been known to put mayonnaise in my coffee sometimes,” in reference to a now-viral TikTok video he shared in October 2021, in which he’s seen drinking his coffee-naise concoction at a diner with his girlfriend.
“I was just out to breakfast … with my girlfriend that Friday, and I think I just looked over and I was wondering, like, why there was mayonnaise at the table,” Levis said during an interview with Kentucky Sports Radio shortly after the video went viral.
Levis added that it was his girlfriend who jokingly suggested that, maybe, some people put mayo in their coffee. Levis then decided to test that theory.
“Oh, maybe I should do that,” he remembered thinking.
Viewers on social media were less enthused about the idea, with one TikTok user saying she “audibly gasped” when she saw the video, and another proposing that Levis go ”straight to jail.”
“We have strayed too far from god,” another Twitter user joked.
Levis, however, at least appeared to acknowledge that his morning mayo isn’t for everyone. While promoting an online learning app on Thursday, Levis asked parents on Twitter to share stories of their children’s most unique skills — but only if they had nothing to do with the condiment.
“Please, no mayo,” Levis wrote. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/university-of-kentucky-quarterback-puts-mayonnaise-in-coffee-grosses-out-internet/ | 2022-07-22T19:20:24Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/university-of-kentucky-quarterback-puts-mayonnaise-in-coffee-grosses-out-internet/ | true |
(NewsNation) — Much scrutiny was on President Joe Biden after he appeared to suggest he had cancer in a video that quickly gained traction among Republican organizations.
Biden’s comment came a day before the White House announced that the president had tested positive for COVID-19. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms are mild.
During a speech Wednesday in Massachusetts where Biden talked about climate change and investing in clean energy, he said environmental issues that Delaware faced were “why I — and so damn many other people I grew up with — have cancer,” according to Newsweek. The publication notes that the comment was slightly muffled in footage.
Still, his comments quickly gained traction online, sparking the hashtag #BidenHasCancer on Twitter. The Republican National Committee asked, in a tweet, “Did Joe Biden just announce he has cancer?”
But Andrew Bates, the White House Deputy Press Secretary, quickly clarified that Biden was talking of a past experience — before he won office — when he had non-melanoma skin cancers removed.
“If we step back and look at this, we see that this is just another flub that the president made when it came to tenses,” The Hill’s Julia Manchester said on NewsNation’s “Morning in America.” “This was definitely giving fodder to his critics. And it feeds into that narrative … that his conservative critics really pushed that he makes these verbal, verbal flubs quite a bit.”
Biden, currently 79 years old, is the oldest U.S. president to serve, Manchester pointed out, which is partly why his critics have gone after him for his mental acuity.
“That’s pretty unprecedented to see someone of that age in as stressful and as demanding of a job as president of the United States,” Manchester said.
At the same time, Democrats and Republicans have been accusing each other of having ill health throughout many political campaigns, she added.
“We saw it with Hillary Clinton in 2016, we’ve seen Democrats accuse President Trump of being unhealthy and having very unhealthy habits,” she said. “Going all the way back to 2008, you had then-Sen. John McCain, who was running for president, and a lot of Democrats and critics questioned his health given his very traumatic experience being held prisoner during the Vietnam War and his age.”
Biden’s health was in the news once again Thursday, after the White House announced in a statement that he tested positive for COVID-19. He is taking Paxlovid for treatment, Jean-Pierre said, and his symptoms are mild. | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/white-house-official-clarifies-president-bidens-comments-on-cancer/ | 2022-07-22T19:20:30Z | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/white-house-official-clarifies-president-bidens-comments-on-cancer/ | true |
LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Unity Software Inc. ("Unity" or the "Company") (NYSE: U).
Class Period: March 5, 2021 – May 10, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 6, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (2) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on the Company's revenues; (3) accordingly, Unity had overstated its commercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
Follow us for updates on Twitter: twitter.com/FRC_LAW.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Frank R. Cruz, of The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz, 1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-914-5007, by email to info@frankcruzlaw.com, or visit our website at www.frankcruzlaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number, and number of shares purchased.
This press release may be considered Attorney Advertising in some jurisdictions under the applicable law and ethical rules.
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Some viewers reported hearing a boom. Others remembered seeing a bright light.
What was it that some people heard and saw in Indiana and surrounding states overnight?
The American Meteor Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to observing the skies, received more than 100 reports of an object in the night sky on July 22. Most of the reports came between 1:45 a.m. and 2 a.m. Eastern.
While many of the reports originated from Indiana, observers in Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin all reported seeing something. One observer reported seeing it as far away as Alabama.
Video obtained from Yorktown showed an object falling from the sky followed by a flash of light. Other Hoosiers who saw it logged reports in Middletown, Muncie, Noblesville, West Lafayette and Zionsville, among other Indiana communities.
According to Rafael Lang, a professor of physics and astronomy at Purdue University, the object was a “bolide,” also known as a fireball. Lang described it as a “shooting star on steroids.”
Lang said Earth is currently flying through the debris field left by the Comet Swift-Tuttle. The debris is responsible for the annual phenomenon called the Perseid meteor shower, also known as the Perseids.
“This fireball may very well have been part of that [the Perseids], i.e. a somewhat unusually but not unexpectedly bright shooting star,” Lang wrote in an email.
The meteor shower happens annually between July 17 and Aug. 24. The peak is expected on Aug. 11 and 12.
The phenomenon recalled a March astronomy-related event captured on camera. That loud boom, heard in multiple Indiana counties, was attributed to a meteor explosion and the resulting “air burst.” | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/hear-a-boom-see-a-bright-light-overnight-heres-what-happened/ | 2022-07-22T19:23:52Z | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/hear-a-boom-see-a-bright-light-overnight-heres-what-happened/ | true |
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – A Silver Alert is in effect for a missing man in Vigo County.
Stanley Crague, 67, was last seen around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in Terre Haute.
He’s about 5’7” and 210 pounds with a brown buzzcut and blue eyes. He may be in extreme danger and in need of medical assistance.
Anyone with information should contact the Terre Haute Police Department at (812) 238-1661 or call 911. | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/silver-alert-issued-for-missing-terre-haute-man/ | 2022-07-22T19:24:04Z | https://fox59.com/indiana-news/silver-alert-issued-for-missing-terre-haute-man/ | false |
SAN DIEGO, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quick Custom Intelligence ("QCI") announced the signing of their 75th casino resort. QCI's continued success in signups and successful deliveries is a testament to their dedication in building a scalable product that the industry really needs. With customers from the Las Vegas strip, Southern California, the Heartland and all across North America and the world, QCI is the clear market leader.
Jeannie Caruso, CEO of Gaming & Leisure said, "Signing 75 resort casinos is a major milestone for any gaming company, but doing this in just over two years is remarkable. What has also impressed me is that the rate of fully successful deployments is about one casino resort per week. I attribute this rapid growth in part to the experience of the team and their deep knowledge of the industry. This experience has enabled QCI to stay on target delivering what the industry really needs."
CEO of QCI, Dr. Ralph Thomas stated "We are excited to announce the signing of our 75th casino resort in North America. The ability for our team to quickly deploy our on-premises, hybrid or cloud-based technology with no disruption to the casino's operation allowed QCI to complete 5 installations in the past 30 days. We will be announcing more deployments in the coming months, including a very large tribal gaming operator in Oklahoma."
Gaming & Leisure (G&L) is an organization dedicated to the betterment and unification of the gaming and hospitality industry. G&L provides influential insights, best practices and brings together thought leading operators to connect, collaborate and ultimately optimize how they manage their companies. Over two decades later, the G&L Roundtable has evolved into a highly coveted private, peer-to-peer forum for gaming and hospitality CXOs humbly having hosted the most gaming CIOs in one private forum in North America. Visit www.mygamingandleisure.com.
The QCI Platform aligns player development, marketing and gaming with powerful real-time operational tools developed for the gaming and hospitality industries. QCI has installed their ground-breaking, highly configured software in over 55 casino resorts in North America and over 3,000 sites worldwide. QCI products provide tooling for gaming operators managing over $20 billion in annual gross gaming revenue, these products are built on the QCI Platform, a best-in-class on-premises, hybrid or cloud-based technology that enables fully coordinated activities across gaming or hospitality operations. This data-driven software allows for quick, informed decisions in the ever-changing world of the casino industry and assists casinos in their efforts to optimize resources and profits, manage marketing campaigns and increase customer loyalty. QCI was founded by Dr. Ralph Thomas and Mr. Andrew Cardno. Based in San Diego, QCI also has offices in Las Vegas, St. Louis, Dallas & Phoenix.
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Stoke-on-Trent: Action over historic buildings falling into decay
- Published
Owners of historic buildings in Stoke-on-Trent who allow them to fall into decay will be met with a "zero tolerance" approach, the council warns.
The move follows concerns over fires in listed buildings that were empty.
The city council has pledged to take legal action to protect heritage sites.
"We want owners to respect and make plans for [their] building," council leader Abi Brown said.
The Falcon Works in Stoke-on-Trent, once a renowned pottery kiln, was reduced to ruins after being targeted by arsonists on 9 July as it stood vacant.
It took fire crews hours to bring the flames under control in the Grade II listed building.
"Our firefighters have to come into these buildings and tackle the fires, their lives are put at risk," Rob Barber of Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service said.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council said allowing buildings to decline would not be tolerated.
A full council meeting on 7 July heard the authority had served a maintenance notice to the property's owners but because compliance had not been forthcoming, instructions were issued to legal services to begin prosecution proceedings.
The BBC has attempted to contact the owners for comment.
Legal action has been taken against other owners in the area.
Supt Mark Ward from Staffordshire Police warned owners to look "after your buildings and make them secure".
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- 29 February 2012 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-62258354 | 2022-07-22T19:28:53Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-62258354 | false |
A federal jury has found former Trump adviser Steve Bannon guilty of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack.
The conviction is a victory for the House January 6 select committee as it continues to seek the cooperation of reluctant witnesses in its historic investigation. It is also a victory for the Justice Department, which is under intense scrutiny for its approach to matters related to the January 6 attack.
After nearly two days of hearing evidence and witness testimony, the jury reached a unanimous verdict in less than three hours. Bannon smiled as the verdict was read.
Bannon's team did not mount a defense, and he did not take the stand.
This story is breaking and will be updated. | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/steve-bannon-found-guilty-of-contempt-for-defying-january-6-committee-subpoena/article_670a778e-f9bf-519c-ae42-9daf62bb5f24.html | 2022-07-22T19:29:02Z | https://www.phillytrib.com/news/steve-bannon-found-guilty-of-contempt-for-defying-january-6-committee-subpoena/article_670a778e-f9bf-519c-ae42-9daf62bb5f24.html | true |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia man charged with trying to kill his sister, who recently awakened from a two-year coma and identified him as her attacker, has died, authorities said Friday.
Daniel J. Palmer III of Cottageville was pronounced dead Thursday at a Charleston hospital, a day after he was taken there following an evaluation by jail medical staff, the state Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Division of Corrections, said in a news release.
The statement didn't indicate a cause of death and a spokeswoman for Department of Health and Human Resources, which oversees the state medical examiner's office, said state law only allows the agency to release autopsy information to relatives and law enforcement.
Palmer, 55, was uncooperative while in custody and during booking procedures at the South Central Regional Jail, where he was taken July 15 after being charged with the attempted murder and malicious wounding of his sister, the statement said.
His death likely brings a close to a highly unusual case in which the investigation was stalled for two years by a lack of evidence.
His sister, Wanda Palmer, was in a coma in a nursing home for two years. She was found unconscious with serious head injuries at her home in Jackson County on June 10, 2020.
Daniel Palmer had been identified as a suspect, but up until the time she emerged from the coma, investigators did not have enough evidence to file charges, court documents said.
“Due to a previous violent history between Wanda Palmer and her brother Daniel Palmer, investigators initially considered Daniel a suspect in the assault," according to a criminal complaint filed in Jackson County Magistrate Court.
Investigators interviewed Daniel, who denied involvement in the attack, saying he had not been to his sister's home in days. Later, a witness told investigators he saw Daniel in the front doorway at Wanda Palmer's trailer on the night she was assaulted.
On June 27, a deputy received a call from a protective services worker who said she had started to speak single words and seemed to respond when questioned.
In a July 12 interview with a deputy, Wanda Palmer said the person who injured her was her brother and she identified him as Daniel, the complaint said.
When asked during the interview the reason behind the assault, “Wanda stated that he was mean,” according to the complaint.
Daniel Palmer had been held on a $500,000 bond. He was so combative when he was arrested that it took hours to get him to cooperate with authorities for an arraignment, which required a magistrate to leave a courthouse and come to the Jackson County sheriff’s office, WCHS-TV reported.
Jackson County Sheriff Ross Mellinger was out of his office and unavailable for comment Friday. | https://www.wbir.com/article/news/nation-world/west-virginia-man-charged-after-sister-awakens-from-coma-dies-in-police-custody/507-61fbeadd-d126-402f-81fd-3f5d38ae09f0 | 2022-07-22T19:30:48Z | https://www.wbir.com/article/news/nation-world/west-virginia-man-charged-after-sister-awakens-from-coma-dies-in-police-custody/507-61fbeadd-d126-402f-81fd-3f5d38ae09f0 | true |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
4-1-1-8
(four, one, one, eight)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
4-1-1-8
(four, one, one, eight) | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17322985.php | 2022-07-22T19:32:33Z | https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17322985.php | true |
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Both pilots of a firefighting helicopter that crashed in Idaho have died, the U.S. Forest Service said on Friday.
Mary Cernicek with the Salmon-Challis National Forest said Thomas Hayes, 41, of Post Falls, Idaho, and Jared Bird, 36, of Anchorage, Alaska, died from injuries they sustained when their CH-47D Series “Chinook” crashed in the Salmon River about 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
The pilots were employees of the Anchorage-based ROTAK Helicopter Services, which was contracted to help fight the Moose Fire burning about 21 miles (34 kilometers) north of Salmon.
Both pilots were “highly experienced” and military veterans, Cernicek said. Emergency crews responding to the crash were able to extricate the men and transport them to medical facilities but they did not survive, she said.
On its website, ROTAK said it confirmed the accident “with heavy hearts” and asked for prayers and privacy on behalf of the families involved.
“ROTAK Helicopter Services is working closely with all appropriate agencies and will issue a full statement as information is released,” the company wrote.
The Idaho crash comes less than a week after four first responders were killed in another helicopter crash in New Mexico. Authorities in New Mexico said the helicopter crew had wrapped up a firefighting mission and was heading home to Albuquerque when the helicopter came down at a high rate of speed, hitting the ground upright before toppling over. One of the four people killed in that crash managed to call 911 before succumbing to his injuries.
Nearly 700 firefighters have been battling the Moose Fire in Idaho. The fire started on Sunday, and the National Interagency Fire Center said in an incident report Friday that nine helicopters were being used to support ground firefighting resources with water bucket drops.
The fire was burning on about 37 square miles (96 square kilometers) on Friday and threatening several structures, and fire managers said the fire was expected to increase as hot, dry conditions continued in the region. A “red flag” warning was issued in the area because wind gusts were expected to reach up to 35 mph (56 kph).
The helicopter wreckage was still in the Salmon River and National Transportation Safety Board investigators were en route to the scene, Cernicek said. That stretch of the river is popular with rafters and recreationists, and officials closed the area to recreational day trips. It remains open to people on multi-day river trips, Cernicek said. | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/2-pilots-die-after-firefighting-helicopter-17322909.php | 2022-07-22T19:33:13Z | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/2-pilots-die-after-firefighting-helicopter-17322909.php | false |
Steve Bannon: Jury finds Trump ally guilty of contempt of Congress
By Sam Cabral
BBC News, Washington
- Published
A US jury has found former Trump strategist Steve Bannon guilty on two counts of contempt of Congress.
Mr Bannon, 68, was indicted last year over his failure to co-operate with the congressional committee probing the events leading up to the Capitol riot.
The former White House chief strategist is said to have been an unofficial adviser to Mr Trump at the time of the insurrection on 6 January 2021.
He faces up to two years in jail and up to $200,000 (£167,000) in fines.
Mr Bannon will report to probation officers before leaving the court on Friday.
His sentencing hearing has been set for 21 October.
Lawyers with the US Department of Justice had argued that Mr Bannon felt "above the law" by ignoring a "mandatory" legal summons from the congressional committee investigating the 6 January breach of the US Capitol.
"Our government only works if people show up, it only works if people play by the rules, and it only works if people are held accountable when they do not," prosecutor Molly Gaston said during closing statements.
"The defendant chose allegiance to Donald Trump over compliance with the law."
Despite vowing to go "medieval" on his enemies, Mr Bannon's defence team rested its case on Thursday without him testifying and without calling any other witnesses.
Attorneys claimed the trial against Mr Bannon was an act of political retribution.
They asserted that rather than ignoring the subpoenas, he believed he was negotiating on them, and also believed the deadlines in the summons were flexible, not fixed.
In closing statements, lawyer Evan Corcoran told the court the path his client Mr Bannon took "turned out to be a mistake" but "was not a crime".
The 12-member jury panel deliberated for about three hours on Friday before reaching its verdict.
Mr Bannon was a key player in former president Donald Trump's 2016 election win, serving first as his campaign chief and later taking on the role of chief strategist at the White House.
He left that position amid political fallout from a violent far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. But the podcaster is still considered a top ally of Mr Trump.
The House of Representatives select committee investigating the Capitol riots first issued a legal summons to Mr Bannon in September 2021.
The panel has long believed Mr Bannon was involved in efforts by Trump supporters to storm Congress and challenge the outcome of the November 2020 presidential election.
It is particularly interested in Mr Bannon's communications with Mr Trump ahead of the incident, as well as "war room" meetings held at a nearby hotel with other key figures, allegedly as part of a last-ditch attempt to thwart the certification of President Joe Biden's election win.
But Mr Bannon proclaimed his innocence and defied the subpoenas, saying he would turn it into a "misdemeanour from hell" for the Biden administration.
He also maintained his conversations with the former president were covered by executive privilege, a legal principle that holds communications between presidents and their advisers to be protected from disclosure in order to allow for candid advice.
A judge, however, ruled he could not claim privilege in this case. | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62259034 | 2022-07-22T19:33:40Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62259034 | true |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
5-9-3
(five, nine, three)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
5-9-3
(five, nine, three) | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17322986.php | 2022-07-22T19:34:00Z | https://www.mrt.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Midday-game-17322986.php | true |
KANAWA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) – A man charged with attempted murder was indicted in Kanawha County Court.
A grand jury indicted Robert Michael Layne, 31, of Sissonville, on charges of Attempted Murder, Malicious Wounding, Use of Presentment of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony, Wanton Endangerment, and First Degree Arson. The charges stem from a Nov. 10, 2021 incident where a man was shot outside a mobile home that was on fire.
Layne is next set to appear in court on Aug. 5, 2022.
ORIGINAL STORY – The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office is releasing more details after a man was shot outside of a mobile home fire in Sissonville.
Deputies say Robert Layne, 30, of Sissonville faces felony counts of arson, malicious wounding and wanton endangerment in connection to the incident. Police were called to the scene near Hughgart drive to investigate the shooting while fire crews were fighting a residential trailer fire nearby on Sisters Lane.
“There was a 911 call placed that came through the airport, that a plane had been flying over the area coming to land and spotted a fire in the area, fire units began to dispatch to this location and while they were en route, we also learned that there was a shooting that happened in the street near the fire,” said Sgt. Brian Humphreys with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office.
According to the sheriff’s office, a male victim, identified as Jacob Parsons, was in his driveway with multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to an area hospital.
Layne was found close by and detained. Authorities say they also found a handgun along the edge of the road near a mailbox.
Deputies say Layne allegedly admitted to intentionally setting the trailer on fire. According to deputies, the resident of the trailer, who knew Parsons, allegedly told police Layne and Parsons got into an altercation over Layne allegedly starting the fire. The sheriff’s office says Layne also allegedly admitted to shooting Parsons during their argument.
“I don’t believe anybody was injured in the trailer, but of course there’s going to be a thorough investigation of the fire itself to determine if it was arson or happenstance, some accident or something like that. That’s something that’s going to be part of our investigation,” said Humphreys.
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LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Law Offices of Frank R. Cruz announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Unity Software Inc. ("Unity" or the "Company") (NYSE: U).
Class Period: March 5, 2021 – May 10, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 6, 2022
If you are a shareholder who suffered a loss, click here to participate.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (2) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on the Company's revenues; (3) accordingly, Unity had overstated its commercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gripped by gun violence that’s affecting cities across the nation, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, on Thursday issued a new emergency declaration with the goal of reducing gun killings by at least 10% over the next two years.
The initiative directs $2.4 million to community groups and prevention efforts.
“Emergency declarations can get results the status quo cannot,” Wheeler said during a briefing at City Hall. “We will not stop until the gun violence stops.”
The number of shootings in Oregon’s biggest city soared above 670 in the first half of 2022 – ahead of the pace for the same period last year.
Guns have been fueling a surge of deadly violence in Portland in a trend that’s been playing out across the U.S. Firearm homicide rates nationwide jumped 35% between 2019 and 2020, the highest rate in more than 25 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In the face of growing violence, many cities are now trying to navigate how to maintain public safety while also addressing the calls to reform and “defund” the police sparked by George Floyd’s murder, as racial justice activists seek to have police budgets reallocated to other social services.
Portland, which was roiled by near-nightly Black Lives Matter protests for months in 2020, cut the city’s police budget by $15 million that year. But in November it reversed course, funneling $5.2 million back to the police department as homicides skyrocketed.
At the briefing, Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell announced that 16 new police officers were sworn in on Thursday in what he described as the “largest new hire event we’ve had in a very, very long time.” The officers are part of the 300 additional police bureau staff the city aims to hire over the next three years.
But despite the recent recruits and funding bumps, Lovell said personnel shortages are hampering his department’s ability to fight crime.
“It’s one of our high priorities to bring the staffing level at the bureau back up,” said Lovell. “We are working as hard as we can to solve these cases.”
Signaling a shift away from the city’s recent cuts to its police budget in 2020, Wheeler said he plans on increasing the department’s funds. “As long as this crisis exists, there will be funding,” Wheeler said.
The initiative aims to enhance and centralize cooperation between law enforcement and community groups with the goal of increasing outreach to individuals at risk of being involved in gun violence.
Wheeler’s emergency declaration came in response to a report released by the Portland Police Bureau and the California Partnership for Safe Communities, a nonprofit that advises cities on reducing gun violence. The report found that last year Portland had a homicide rate of 13.5 per 100,000 people, roughly double the nationwide rate.
The number of homicides in Portland surpassed more populous cities like San Francisco and Boston. The Oregon city had twice as many slayings compared to its larger Pacific Northwest neighbor Seattle.
Portland reported a record 89 homicides last year, a 65% increase compared to 2020, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The vast majority of those homicides involved a firearm.
Shootings in Portland disproportionately affect communities of color. Black people make up just 6% of the city’s population, but account for nearly 39% of homicide victims.
Communities across the U.S. are grappling with the spike in shootings, with many still reeling from a string of killings that targeted a Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb, Black shoppers at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and children at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Congress last month to pass its most significant gun violence bill in 30 years. The legislation will enhance background checks for gun buyers under 21 years of age, toughen laws preventing domestic violence offenders from obtaining firearms, and provide billions in funding for mental health and crisis intervention programs in communities and schools.
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A coalition of the sanctioned: On Russia and Iran
Putin is betting on Iran to expand Russian influence in the region
It was hardly a surprise that Russian President Vladimir Putin chose Iran, another country at the receiving end of western sanctions, for his first visit outside the former Soviet sphere since Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine. Russia and Iran, brought together by their opposition toward the West, already have a strategic partnership in place and have worked together in places such as Syria. But despite this cooperation, tensions have also existed where Russia has remained the big brother. But the war and the subsequent western sanctions on Russia have added a new dimension to the partnership. Hours before Mr. Putin landed in Tehran, the countries signed a $40 billion energy memorandum of understanding where Russia’s Gazprom would work with the National Iranian Oil Company in developing energy fields and building LNG projects and pipelines. Last week, the U.S. had claimed that Russia was also seeking armed drones from Iran to deploy in Ukraine. So, Russia, battered by sanctions and rattled by the slow progress of its war, is seeking to build a coalition of the sanctioned by deepening an economic, defence and strategic partnership with Iran. And in Tehran, Mr. Putin has found a receptive audience.
In Tehran, Mr. Putin also met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss the Syrian civil war and a United Nations proposal to allow grain exports from Ukrainian ports via the Black Sea. The trilateral summit, at a time when the West seeks to isolate and punish Mr. Putin, shows the complex geopolitical moves at play in West Asia. Turkey, a NATO member, has condemned the Russian war and supplied Ukraine with drones, but refused to join the western sanctions against Moscow. Turkey and Russia, which back rival factions in Syria’s civil war but have entered into an entente, need each other to protect their interests in Syria. Iran, whose bet on the 2015 nuclear deal backfired after the U.S. unilaterally pulled itself out of the agreement in 2018, has been keen on building stronger strategic and economic ties with China and Russia. As the nuclear talks resumed by the Biden administration have reached an impasse, Iran’s Ayatollahs would naturally prefer a stronger partnership with Russia. This explains the complex trilateral dynamics of the Tehran summit. The visit has also highlighted the importance of West Asia in the time of great power rivalries. Mr. Putin’s visit came just days after U.S. President Joe Biden wrapped up his Saudi-Israel tour. Mr. Biden warned America’s traditional allies against Russia, China and Iran gaining greater influence in the region. And days later, the Russian leader was in the Iranian capital. While Mr. Biden seeks to build a united front of American allies in West Asia against Iran and Russia, Mr. Putin is betting on Iran to expand the Russian influence in the region in these difficult times.
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ONTARIO, Calif., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- For technicians and DIYers, who love to repair and maintain vehicles by themselves, an effective device with excellent user experience is a necessity.
However, most of the traditional OBD devices on the market still stay in the very first place, which can only perform the basic functions with awful user experience.
After in-depth investigating, MUCAR brought out a comprehensive design on product positioning, using habits, software optimization, and operation experience, etc. To create a brand new product for our users: CDE900, to bring you higher efficiency and better diagnostic experience.
In the past, OBD devices only adopted physical buttons and ordinary LCD screen, which cannot be used after the buttons are damaged in the complex diagnostic environment. CDE900 optimizes this situation with all-round guarantee:
- Adopted 4 inches capacitive touch screen, which maximized the proportion. Operating on the screen directly.
- Keep the physical buttons, to ensure stable operation while using on it directly.
CDE900 adopts Color screen display with a new icon UI design to manage functions, which makes the function display more intuitive and vivid. Up to 120 data streams can be read at the same time, no hiding for abnormal data of multidimensional data comparison.
MUCAR CDE900 supports 16 languages, optimizing communication protocol to cover vehicles after 1996. Added ECM+SRS+TCM+ABS functions on the basis of the full function of OBD2 and EOBD2 when you need it, you can pay for the additional functions anytime.
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CDE900 adopts Android 6.0 intelligent system, the device runs faster with 2G memory, 16G storage, supports up to 256G expanded memory card. Equipped with 1500mAh capacity battery without OBD interface power supply, you can turn on the device to check the historical diagnosis report. It's ready for the next repair and maintenance anytime.
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White House announces $270M military package for Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Friday that the U.S. is sending an additional $270 million in security assistance to Ukraine, a package that will include additional medium range rocket systems and tactical drones.
The latest tranche brings the total U.S. security assistance committed to Ukraine by the Biden administration to $8.2 billion, and is being paid for through $40 billion in economic and security aid for Ukraine approved by Congress in May.
The new package includes four High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS and will allow Kyiv to acquire up to 580 Phoenix Ghost drones, both crucial weapon systems that have allowed the Ukrainians to stay in the fight despite Russian artillery supremacy, according to John Kirby, the White House National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications. The latest assistance also includes some 36,000 rounds of artillery ammunition and additional ammunition for the HIMARS.
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“The president has been clear that we’re going to continue to support the government of Ukraine and its people for as long as it takes,” Kirby said.
Ukrainian forces have used U.S.-made rocket launchers and tactical drones to destroy dozens of Russian targets and hold at bay Russia’s larger and more heavily equipped forces.
Russia can fire far more ammunition but has sustained huge losses of troops and equipment as Ukrainian forces have been equipped with precision weaponry from the U.S. and other Western allies. CIA Director William Burns on Wednesday said the U.S. estimates roughly 15,000 Russian forces have been killed. That death toll would be equivalent to the Soviet Union’s military losses in its 1980s war in Afghanistan, which lasted nearly a decade.
To try to equalize the conflict, Ukraine has made ample use of Western-supplied technologies as it defends its eastern lines.
Ukraine has long sought more HIMARS launchers, which fire medium-range rockets and also can be quickly moved before Russia can target them. On Wednesday, Ukrainian forces reportedly used a HIMARS to hit a strategic bridge in the Russia-occupied southern region of Kherson. One military expert told The Associated Press that the systems have “hardly had any rest during the day or at night.”
U.S. authorities also are providing Ukraine with more guided rockets known as GMLRS. The Pentagon continues to rule out sending longer-range rockets that Ukraine could potentially use to strike deep into Russian territory. That’s a nod to the U.S. trying to manage the risk of Russia instigating a broader war.
The U.S. has already sent 12 truck-mounted HIMARS to Ukraine. The United Kingdom has also provided three launchers of a different kind with GMLRS rockets as well.
Both sides in the war have made ample use of drones. The U.S. had previously committed to sending 121 Phoenix Ghosts to Ukraine. Pentagon officials have not fully disclosed the capabilities of those drones, which were developed by the U.S. Air Force and produced by Aevex Aerospace, which describes itself as a leader in “full-spectrum airborne intelligence solutions.” The drones have onboard cameras and can be used to attack targets.
The U.S. disclosed earlier this month that it believes Russia is planning to obtain several hundred drones from Iran. Iranian drones have previously penetrated Saudi and Emirati air defense systems in the Middle East that were supplied by the U.S. Biden administration officials have tried to publicly discourage Iran from moving forward with the transfer.
The White House released satellite imagery that indicates Russian officials twice visited Iran in June or July for a showcase of weapons-capable drones it is looking to acquire.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
4-1-1-8
(four, one, one, eight)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
4-1-1-8
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Part of man’s hand cut off with a sword at a 7-Eleven, officials say
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow/Gray News) – Part of a man’s hand was cut off with a sword at a 7-Eleven in Hawaii, according to officials.
Honolulu Emergency Medical Services said a man in his 40s was attacked with a sword and sustained multiple wounds. Paramedics treated and took him to the hospital with serious injuries, KHNL reported.
A witness said there was an altercation between a 7-Eleven employee and another man inside the store.
He said the incident escalated, ending with the employee allegedly cutting part of the man’s hand off outside of the store with a sword.
“The victim started to shout and to cry, and then I look at him on the floor and I saw that half his hand was on the floor. The guy ran to the side of the door, and he fell there on the floor,” said Michael Suissa, a witness who was visiting from Switzerland.
According to Suissa, the man with the sword ran to a hotel nearby, where police said they later arrested a 46-year-old man.
Honolulu police initially responded to the scene for a report of an assault, but it was quickly reclassified as attempted murder.
While police have not confirmed the suspect is a 7-Eleven employee, Suissa said the man with the sword had served him before and was quite pleasant.
“He served me twice for the last two days. He was very nice. He was very kind. ... I was shocked that someone like that does something so horrible,” Suissa said.
A security guard said the men involved have had encounters in the past and was worried it was eventually going to get physical.
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Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's former presidential adviser, has been convicted of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the committee investigating last year's attack on the US Capitol.
A jury found Bannon, 68, guilty of two misdemeanour counts for refusing to provide testimony or documents to the House of Representatives select committee as it scrutinises the January 6, 2021 rampage by Trump supporters who tried to upend the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Each contempt of Congress count is punishable by 30 days to one year behind bars, as well as a fine of $US100 to $US100,000 ($A145 to $A144,745).
US District Judge Carl Nichols set a sentencing date of October 21.
The verdict by the jury of eight men and four women, after less than three hours of deliberations, marked the first successful prosecution for contempt of Congress since 1974, when a judge found G Gordon Liddy, a conspirator in the Watergate scandal that prompted president Richard Nixon's resignation, guilty.
Bannon was a key adviser to the Republican Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, then served as his chief White House strategist during 2017 before a falling out between the two that was later patched up.
His defence team in closing arguments on Friday suggested to jurors that Bannon was a political target and painted the main prosecution witness as a politically motivated Democrat with ties to one of the prosecutors.
The prosecution countered that Bannon showed disdain for the authority of Congress and needed to be held accountable for his unlawful defiance.
Prosecutor Molly Gaston told jurors the attack represented a "dark day" for the US, adding: "There is nothing political about finding out why January 6 happened and making sure it never happens again."
Evan Corcoran, one of Bannon's lawyers, told jurors, "The question is, 'Why? Why was Steve Bannon singled out?"
The trial featured two days of testimony.
Prosecutors questioned only two witnesses.
The defence called none.
The conviction may strengthen the committee's position as it seeks to secure testimony and documents from others in Trump's orbit.
Trump last year asked his associates not to cooperate with the committee, accusing it of trying to hurt him politically, and several of them rebuffed the panel.
Another former Trump adviser, Peter Navarro, was separately was charged with contempt of Congress in June for refusing to appear for a committee deposition.
Navarro's trial is scheduled for November.
The Justice Department opted not to charge two other Trump associates, Mark Meadows and Daniel Scavino, for defying the committee despite a House vote recommending it.
Unlike Bannon, Meadows turned over some communications to the committee.
The committee could make multiple referrals to the Justice Department seeking criminal charges against Trump himself, according to its vice chair Liz Cheney.
The main prosecution witness was Kristin Amerling, a top committee staffer who testified that Bannon spurned deadlines to respond to the September 2021 subpoena, sought no extensions and offered an invalid rationale for his defiance - a claim by Trump involving a legal doctrine called executive privilege that can keep certain presidential communications confidential.
The Justice Department charged Bannon last November after the Democratic-led House voted the prior month to hold him in contempt.
A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and attacked police with batons, sledgehammers, flag poles, Taser devices, chemical irritants, metal pipes, rocks, metal guard rails and other weapons in a failed effort to block congressional certification of his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
The committee has said Bannon spoke with Trump at least twice on the day before the attack and attended a planning meeting at a Washington DC hotel.
It played a clip of Bannon saying on his podcast the day before the attack that "all hell is going to break loose tomorrow".
The judge limited the scope of the case Bannon's team could present to jurors, moves one of his lawyers said "badly stymied" the defence.
Bannon was barred from arguing that he believed his communications with Trump were subject to executive privilege and was prohibited from arguing he relied on legal advice from a lawyer in refusing to comply.
Bannon's defence argued that he believed the subpoena deadlines were flexible and subject to negotiation between his lawyer and the committee.
In an 11th-hour reversal with the trial looming, Bannon this month announced a willingness to testify in a public hearing before the committee, an offer that prosecutors said did not change the fact he had already broken the law. | https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/bannon-convicted-of-us-congress-contempt-c-7616080 | 2022-07-22T19:43:34Z | https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/bannon-convicted-of-us-congress-contempt-c-7616080 | true |
Through eight House hearings about the Jan. 6 insurrection, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) was calm, unflappable and plain-spoken. She did not grandstand or gloat. She did not apologize to her fellow Republicans for her leading role in the hearings. She did not try to use her position as a backdoor campaign ad for her next election. Her demeanor was less that of a politician than a game warden who has encountered a dying animal in the woods and now must club it out of its misery.
In short, Liz Cheney understood the assignment.
The assignment of the select committee was to lay out — particularly for Americans who have been unconvinced by news articles, an impeachment trial, presidential tweets, witness accounts, participant accounts, delusional MAGA shamans, and hair-raising video footage that citizens could watch with their own dang eyes — that Donald Trump had not only recognized the possibility of violence at the Capitol, he had essentially willed it into existence. The assignment was to create a thorough historical record. It couldn’t change the past but it might ensure that all Americans vaguely understood the same version of it.
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) was no less accomplished in his role as chair of the House select committee on the Jan. 6 attack. He, too, was as thorough and somber as the occasion required. But Cheney’s role as vice chair was a narrower tightrope. Those who still believed that Trump had been wronged, railroaded, bamboozled and generally done dirty were not going to believe otherwise because a Democrat told them so. But it’s possible they might believe a Cheney.
“There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain,” she had warned her fellow Republicans in the first hearing, with her trademark bluntness. “We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation,” she said during the Thursday night hearing.
I saw more than one pontificator position Cheney’s performance in the hearings as “Liz Cheney’s revenge on Donald Trump — and her own party,” to cite the specific framing by the New Yorker.
It was a jaded look at the whole affair, but boy howdy, would Cheney have deserved that revenge. Back home in Wyoming, she has been trailing a Trump-backed candidate in her primary election and stands a fair shot of losing her seat. In Washington, her party has already censured her once for participating in the hearings at all.
In a closed-door Republican meeting last year described by the New York Times, Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Penn.) reportedly said that Cheney’s failure to support Trump after the insurrection was like looking up in the stands to “see your girlfriend on the opposition’s side.” The sexism was breathtaking: The idea that the third-highest ranking Republican in the House would be thought of not as a senior member of the party but as a groupie whose loyalty could be thrown on and off like a letterman jacket.
I wondered if Kelly was watching the hearings and, if so, whether his weird teenage metaphor was holding up okay: There was the girlfriend, up in the stands, revealing the Capitol rioters to be violent stooges puppeteered by a china-throwing president-baby.
The key thing is that she is not on the opposition’s side, she is on America’s side. What the majority of Republicans struggled to understand, Cheney never lost sight of: The hearings aren’t about spanking a former president. They’re about saving the country.
On Thursday night, she hinted for the first time that she understood what role sexism might have played in the hearings, and she wasn’t thinking of herself at all.
“She sat here alone, took the oath, and testified before millions of Americans,” Cheney said, referencing former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. “She knew all along that she would be attacked by President Trump, and by the 50, 60 and 70-year-old men who hide themselves behind executive privilege.” She then mentioned other female witnesses, including poll worker Ruby Freeman and Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards, calling them “an inspiration to American women and American girls.”
Cheney wore a white blazer to the hearing. It might have been a coincidence, but white was the signature color of suffragists, and Cheney evoked them, too.
“In this room, in 1918, the Committee on Women’s Suffrage convened to discuss and debate whether women should be granted the right to vote,” she said in her closing statement. “This room is full of history, and we on this committee know we have a solemn obligation not to idly squander what so many Americans have fought and died for.”
Liz Cheney understood the assignment. She would not remain silent. She would not hide herself behind her party. She would not do the easy thing, even when doing the hard thing cost her dearly, and the only reward was knowing that the job she’d been tasked with was gruesome. But she’d done it the best she could. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/07/22/liz-cheney-hearings-monica-hesse/ | 2022-07-22T19:43:42Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/07/22/liz-cheney-hearings-monica-hesse/ | true |
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Law enforcement officers who charged into Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School minutes after Nikolas Cruz fatally shot 17 in one of its buildings described for jurors Friday the horrific scene they encountered.
Two Coral Springs police officers and a Broward County sheriff's deputy told of finding dead, dying and wounded students and staff members at the three-story classroom building where Cruz massacred 14 students and three staff members and wounded 17 more with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle on Feb. 14, 2018.
“I observed a child dead on the ground on the left and there was smoke and dust in the air,” said Broward Sgt. Richard Van Der Eems in the flat, professional tone the officers all used. Worried that the shooter might still be in the building, he said he pointed his gun to provide cover as other officers led students and teachers out of the building and carried out the wounded. They didn't know that Cruz had fled the building about three minutes earlier.
Van Der Eems and other officers entered the building immediately after arriving, about 10 minutes after the shooting began. Then-Broward Deputy Scot Peterson, the school's security officer, is charged with child neglect for staying outside while Cruz continued shooting. He has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled for trial early next year. Other deputies were disciplined for failing to go into the building when they arrived.
The police in Uvalde, Texas, are being criticized for waiting more than an hour before confronting a gunman who killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in May.
Coral Springs Capt. Nicholas Mazzei said that as he ran to the building, he found the body of assistant football coach Aaron Feis, who was shot trying to stop Cruz.
“I checked him for vitals, realized he was deceased," Mazzei said. He said he then went inside and found athletic director Christopher Hixon, who later died of wounds he received while confronting Cruz. He said they talked, but prosecutors did not ask what was said.
Coral Springs Detective David Alfin said he climbed the stairs to the third-floor landing, where he found Cruz's rifle and vest next to the body of 14-year-old Jaime Guttenberg.
“I checked her vital signs for breath and pulse and I found none,” he said, adding that he checked two or three times. “We held there for a moment and ... heard a voice from the hallway.”
He, Van Der Eems and others went to the third floor, where they found other bodies and a severely wounded Anthony Borges, who was lying in the middle of the hallway, raising his hand and trying to yell to get their attention.
The officers were shown photos of the victims they saw, but those weren't immediately shared with the jury.
Friday's session concludes a week of often emotional testimony covering the attack and Cruz's attempted escape.
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder. The jury must only decide if he should be sentenced to death or life without parole for the nation’s deadliest mass shooting to go before a jury.
Nine other gunmen who killed at least 17 people died during or immediately after their shootings, either by suicide or police gunfire. The suspect in the 2019 slaying of 23 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, is awaiting trial.
When jurors eventually get the case, probably in October or November, they will vote 17 times, once for each of the victims, on whether to recommend capital punishment.
For each death sentence, the jury must be unanimous or the sentence for that victim is life. The jurors are told that to vote for death, the prosecution’s aggravating circumstances for that victim must, in their judgment, “outweigh” the defense’s mitigators. A juror can also vote for life out of mercy for Cruz. During jury selection, the panelists said under oath that they are capable of voting for either sentence.
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Associated Press reporter Freida Frisaro in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, contributed to this report. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Officers-describe-horror-they-saw-after-Parkland-17322856.php | 2022-07-22T19:45:00Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Officers-describe-horror-they-saw-after-Parkland-17322856.php | false |
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The National Association of Immigration Judges on Thursday asked the federal government to restore its union recognition after the Trump administration stripped its official status and the system’s chief judge resigned after two years on the job.
The two developments come at a critical time for the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, which runs the courts.
The judges’ backlog of immigration cases has tripled to 1.8 million since 2017. Cases for people who are not detained take several years to resolve.
Tracy Short, who was named chief immigration judge in June 2020 by then-Attorney General William Barr, said in a message to immigration judges that his decision to step down as of July 30 was “difficult and not one that I envisioned I would be making.”
Short, a longtime government attorney with extensive experience in immigration, did not explain why he was leaving in the message, which was obtained by The Associated Press. Kathryn Mattingly, a spokeswoman for the Executive Office for Immigration Review, confirmed that Short resigned.
Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Jim Jordan, top Republicans on the Senate and House Judiciary Committees, wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland last week about news reports that “multiple” judges appointed during the Trump administration were recently ousted.
They claimed some departures were due to“the result of a coordinated effort between the Biden-Harris Administration and far-left immigration advocates.” Mattingly did not immediately provide responses to questions about those allegations.
The National Association of Immigration Judges, which was founded in 1971 and has long sought more independence from the Justice Department, was a frequent target of Trump administration officials who said judges took too much time to decide cases.
His administration ordered each judge to complete 700 cases annually in return for satisfactory performance reviews, a target that was scrapped during the Biden administration.
The Federal Labor Relations Authority stripped the National Association of Immigration Judges of its official status, siding with the Trump administration that judges were akin to management employees without collective bargaining rights. But the union hopes for a reversal after the three-member panel shifted to Democratic control in May.
The union said a majority of the roughly 550 immigration judges have signed a petition in the last two months to restore the union’s recognition.
The Trump administration “went to extraordinary lengths to unjustly silence immigration judges,” said Mimi Tsankov, president of the union, which operates under the AFL-CIO.
Tsankov, who is also an immigration judge in New York, said lack of official status ended the union’s influence on collective bargaining agreements and diminished its say on court spending and other operations.
“We don’t have a way to make known what the concerns are,” she said. “We need someone to say this is what’s not working.”
Mattingly, the court spokeswoman, said the Justice Department “supports employees’ rights to organize but is bound by orders issued by agencies and courts.”
While immigration judges wear black robes and preside in courtroom settings, they are considered federal attorneys with the Justice Department and can be removed from their positions by the attorney general.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Marine Corps will keep its new amphibious combat vehicle — a kind of seafaring tank — out of the water while it investigates why two of the vehicles ran into trouble off Southern California’s coast this week amid high surf, military officials said Wednesday.
No Marines or sailors were injured when one of the vehicles rolled onto its side Tuesday in waves that were unusually high because of a storm in the southern hemisphere. The other one became disabled when waves as high as 8-feet (2.4 meters) slammed the coastline.
The mishaps prompted troops to leap out of the vehicles and make their way to shore at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego. The mishaps were first reported by The San Diego Union-Tribune.
The new vehicles were introduced to replace Vietnam War-era amphibious assault vehicles, one of which was involved in one of Marine Corps’ deadliest training accidents of its kind two years ago off Southern California’s coast.
Lt. Gen. David J. Furness, the deputy commandant of the Marine Corps for plans, policies, and operations, said the officials decided to halt waterborne operations involving the newer vehicles as a precaution while an investigation is underway. The Marine Corps will continue using the vehicles for land operations.
“This is the right thing to do,” Furness said in a statement. The effort will allow time to “ensure our assault amphibian community remains ready to support our nation,” he added.
In the July 30, 2020 amphibious vehicle accident, eight Marines and one sailor died when the vehicle sank rapidly in 385 feet (117 meters) of water off San Clemente Island. Seven of the Marines were rescued.
A Marine Corps investigation found that inadequate training, shabby maintenance and poor judgment by leaders led to the sinking.
The Marines use the amphibious vehicles to transport troops and their equipment from Navy ships to land. The armored vehicles that have machine guns and grenade launchers look like tanks as they roll ashore for beach attacks, with Marines pouring out of them to take up positions. | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/marines-halt-amphibious-vehicle-use-at-sea-after-mishaps/ | 2022-07-22T19:46:06Z | https://www.wfla.com/news/national/ap-us-news/marines-halt-amphibious-vehicle-use-at-sea-after-mishaps/ | true |
Which white tennis shoes are best?
Whether facing off against tough opponents in a competition or playing a friend in a casual match, you always want to be at your best when you step onto the court. A good racket helps, but a reliable pair of tennis shoes is also important.
If you want high-quality shoes with an elegant look, white-colored shoes are your best bet. For example, the Nike NikeCourt Air Zoom Vapor Cage 4 Rafa Tennis Shoes have a modern design inspired by Rafael Nadal and offer excellent stability on hard courts.
What to know before you buy white tennis shoes
Size
You don’t want to wear the incorrect size shoes when playing tennis. Tennis requires players to move quickly, and shoes that are too big can feel awkward and cause you to stumble. On the flip side, your shoes shouldn’t be so tight your feet feel suffocated. They should provide a snug fit, but some extra room in the toe box is ideal.
Playing surface
There are three types of playing surfaces, and the tennis shoes you wear should correlate to which kind you play on most.
- Hard-court shoes usually have plenty of cushioning for superior shock absorption, as well as a durable rubber outsole.
- Clay-court shoes are lightweight and have a herringbone pattern on the outsole that provides sufficient grip for sliding.
- Grass-court shoes are similar to clay-court shoes but have a nub-patterned sole for extra grip on slippery grass.
Ankle rubbing
Some players might experience unpleasant rubbing between the lower part of their fibula and the ankle of their shoes. At first, it might not seem like a big deal, but if your ankle bone makes contact with those edges, it can quickly become a problem and lead to discomfort or pain after playing for a while. Depending on the shoes, rubbing may occur to some degree, but it’s best to ensure that your bone and the upper edge make minimal contact to prevent discomfort.
All-white vs. white with a splash of color
All-white tennis shoes have a clean, sophisticated look. However, if you find them too bland and prefer something that stands out a bit, you can get white shoes with a colored logo, stripes, or other accents. For example, some white Nike tennis shoes have a black swoosh logo, giving them a stylish color contrast.
What to look for in quality white tennis shoes
Stability
The upper should provide you with the stability you need to move quickly. Most uppers are made with synthetic materials and usually have mesh fabric overlays for improved airflow. Some tennis shoes also have a shank in the midsole that prevents them from twisting and bending, giving players extra stability.
Cushioning
A cushioned midsole is crucial, as it helps keep you comfortable and facilitates quick movements. Ethyl-vinyl acetate foam is the most commonly used material and is soft enough to provide sufficient padding and shock absorption. It’s also flexible enough to promote efficient energy transfer, and it can give players an extra spring in their step.
Outsole
If you play primarily on softer grass or clay surface, the outsoles should be rigid, and the tread should have a herringbone pattern. However, if you play on a hard court surface, it’s best to look for shoes with a nub-like design on the bottom of the soles for extra grip. In any case, you want non-marking shoes that provide enough grip to prevent unintentional sliding but offer sufficient give during lunges and long strides.
How much you can expect to spend on white tennis shoes
You can get a reliable pair of tennis shoes for $60-$100, but if you want something more durable, you can expect to pay up to $170.
White tennis shoes FAQ
Are white tennis shoes acceptable to wear casually?
A. Yes, white tennis shoes are versatile enough to wear for playing and as a part of a casual outfit. They have an elegant look and are a trendy fashion choice.
Can I wear tennis shoes to play pickleball?
A. Since tennis and pickleball involve many of the same body movements and mechanics, tennis shoes are also suitable for playing pickleball.
What are the best white tennis shoes to buy?
Top white tennis shoes
Nike NikeCourt Air Zoom Vapor Cage 4 Rafa Tennis Shoes
What you need to know: These shoes are inspired by superstar tennis player Rafael Nadal and offer elite performance on hard courts.
What you’ll love: They provide excellent durability during slides and have lacing wraps at the tongue’s top for a secure fit. The stiff lateral frames offer superior stability for side-to-side movements, and the Zoom Air unit in the midsole allows for more efficient energy transfer and more bounce back on strides.
What you should consider: The laces can be difficult to tie, and some players with narrow feet found them uncomfortable.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Top white tennis shoes for the money
Prince Advantage Lite 2 Tennis Shoes
What you need to know: These shoes have a basic look but offer excellent comfort and durability, making them ideal for beginners.
What you’ll love: They have a rubber sole plate for superior traction, and the insole is packed with soft EVA foam cushioning for improved shock absorption. The shank in the midsole provides added stability, and the synthetic upper has a breathable mesh fabric overlay.
What you should consider: Some customers reported that the soles wore out fast and the sides aren’t as durable as those of other tennis shoes.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
Worth checking out
Asics Gel-Resolution 8 Tennis Shoes
What you need to know: These shoes are designed for comfort and provide top-level performances on different surfaces.
What you’ll love: The Flexion Fit upper offers sufficient support, and the rubber outsole provides players a solid combination of traction and give. Gel cushioning in the heel decreases impact shock, and Dynawall technology in the midsole improves stability and flexibility, letting players move with agility.
What you should consider: Some players found using the top lacing holes for a more secure fit uncomfortable.
Where to buy: Sold by Dick’s Sporting Goods
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ATLANTA — Prosecutors said Friday that they plan to retry a well-connected Atlanta man whose murder conviction in the shooting death of his business executive wife was recently overturned.
The Fulton County District Attorney’s office said in a court filing Friday that it plans to retry McIver on charges of felony murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. The motion asks that a trial be set within 180 days of when the trial court receives the Supreme Court’s order, which is expected to happen soon.
Attorneys for McIver did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Friday. When his conviction was overturned, attorneys Don Samuel and Amanda Clark Palmer said their client had not received a fair trial and that they “look forward to showing the next jury that he is not guilty of murder.”
In overturning McIver’s convictions on murder and other charges, the high court said the jury should have had the option to convict him on a misdemeanor involuntary manslaughter charge.
In its motion for a new trial, the district attorney’s office notes that the Supreme Court found there was enough evidence at trial for a rational jury to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that McIver was guilty of the crimes for which he was convicted.
“The jury which served at the original trial of this case evaluated all of the evidence and unanimously convicted (McIver) of intentional crimes against his wife,” the motion says. “This fact weighs heavily in the State’s consideration of how best to serve the interests of justice in this case. This District Attorney believes very strongly that a jury of one’s peers, working as a body, is best positioned to evaluate the accuracy of testimony and other evidence in a case to determine an individual’s culpability under the law.”
Then-Presiding Justice Michael Boggs, who this week became chief justice, wrote in the unanimous opinion, “While the State’s evidence was sufficient to support the appellant’s conviction of murder, it also could have supported a finding that the appellant killed the victim without any intention of doing so in the commission of an unlawful act.”
It is undisputed that McIver shot his wife. At trial, jurors had to decide whether they believed he did it intentionally.
The McIvers were wealthy and well-connected. He had been a partner at a prominent labor and employment law firm and served on the state election board. She was president of U.S. Enterprises Inc., the parent company of Corey Airport Services, where she had worked for 43 years.
At the time of the shooting, Tex McIver was no longer a partner at his firm and his income had dropped significantly. He and his wife kept separate finances and prosecutors alleged he killed his wife because he needed her money to cover his expenses. Defense attorneys disputed that, saying McIver deeply loved his wife and her death was a tragic accident.
The jurors in his trial acquitted McIver of malice murder but found him guilty of felony murder. Felony murder is when a killing happens during the commission of another felony, in this case aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. That means the jury found that he intentionally shot his wife, and that led to her death.
Dani Jo Carter, a close friend of Diane McIver, was driving the couple’s Ford Expedition the evening of Sept. 25, 2016, as the three returned from a weekend at the McIvers’ horse farm about 75 miles (120 kilometers) east of Atlanta. Diane McIver was in the front passenger seat and Tex McIver was in the back seat behind his wife.
With traffic heavy on the interstate, Carter exited in downtown Atlanta. McIver said, “Girls, I wish you hadn’t done this. This is a really bad area,” and asked his wife to get his gun from the center console and hand it to him. A short while later, McIver fired the gun once, striking his wife in the back. Carter drove to a hospital where Diane McIver died. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/atlanta-prosecutors-plan-to-retry-man-who-shot-wife-in-suv/2022/07/22/760f11de-09f6-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html | 2022-07-22T19:47:45Z | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/atlanta-prosecutors-plan-to-retry-man-who-shot-wife-in-suv/2022/07/22/760f11de-09f6-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html | true |
Rise in gasoline prices threatens social stability and food security in Latin America
By Stefano Pozzebon, CNN
South American countries are bracing for an autumn of discontent, as spiking global fuel prices threaten to provoke more protests in the upcoming months.
Rising fuel prices have already brought about protests in Argentina, Ecuador and Panama. Their neighbors could be particularly susceptible to rising prices at the pump, because the region lacks alternative means of transportation, such as railways and waterways that are more common in Europe and North America — and guzzle less fuel.
“The price of fuel is an anchor for the entire economy: if fuel increases, it has a direct impact on all sorts of prices,” says Sergio Guzman, director of Colombia’s Risk Analysis, a business consultancy in Bogota.
Exacerbating the issue, some sectors in the region are requiring greater amounts of fuel than ever before — paradoxically, to compensate for the effects of climate change.
In Ecuador, where bananas are the leading agricultural export, diesel pumps move water in and out of banana plantations — a necessity that has been more urgent as increasingly intense rainfalls hit the country, say analysts.
According to Raul Villacres of Pulso Bananero, a banana-trade consultancy in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s banana production is down 7% compared to last year, in part due to rising costs of diesel and gasoline.
A similar situation is affecting the fishing industry in Colombia, where residents enjoy some of the cheapest fuel prices in the world. Still, when the Energy and Mining Ministry published new regulated prices at the beginning of July, it sent shockwaves across the country.
Twice a week, fisherman Jimmy Murillo leaves shore from the port city of Buenaventura, on Colombia’s Pacific coast. He spends on average two or three days at sea before coming back with his catch, but lately the trips have grown longer, as fish stocks have reduced and the fishermen head further offshore to find better prey.
Ironically, one of the reasons why fishing catches have decreased is climate change, and fishermen like Murillo must use more fuel to mitigate its impact. One of the reasons, Murillo told CNN, is that as rainfalls patterns change and more torrential rains hit the Colombia, rivers and streams arrive at the ocean carrying more sand and soil in their waters, and because of that most of the fish migrate further off shore, where the water is clearer, and cooler.
“In January, fuel for our boats cost 8,000 pesos ($1.96) per gallons, now it’s over 9,800 pesos ($2.70). Every week, it grows a little more, and the government does not help,” Murillo told CNN.
Nicole Muñoz of Albacora, a small-scale, sustainable fishing operation in Bogota that moves around 400 kilograms of fish from the Colombian coast to the capital every week, also says gasoline is key to her entire business model.
“We use fuel for fishing boats, to move the produce from shore to airports, then in planes, our whole logistics depend on it,” Muñoz told CNN.
While fish prices have not increased as much as other food sectors in Colombia, like beef and poultry products, Muñoz believes prices will start growing as the impact of pricier fuel is felt.
In April, the World Bank reviewed its growth prediction for Latin America and the Caribbean to 2.3% this year, shredding 0.4 percentage points due to the impact of the war in Ukraine and the global rise in world’s prices. At the same time, the Bank estimated Latin American countries have lost the equivalent of 1.7% of their GDP due to climate related disaster over the last twenty years, and expects Latin America’s agriculture to be on the line of fire as the planet grows warmer.
As daily life grows more expensive, could the popular anger seen in Panama, Ecuador and Argentina spread to Colombia and other countries in the region?
“It’s really not a question of if, but of when,” says Guzman of Colombia’s Risk Analysis.
He argues that regional governments won’t be able to spend enough to mitigate the rising cost of living and pacify their populations. “As pockets tightens, people will be losing their patience, not because of anything the governments do, but because these countries don’t have the capacity to increase social spending.”
Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso, for example, has been forced by protests to cap the price of gasoline at $2.40 per gallon — a decision that will cost the country an additional three billion dollars by the end of the year, according to finance minister Simon Cueva.
In Argentina, where the country’s finance minister has been forced to step down over extreme inflation, one Buenos Aires food delivery worker told CNN the year had so far proven more rancorous than the early years of the pandemic.
“Everybody complains,” Federico Mansilia, a father of two, told CNN. “Those who get social support because they say it’s not enough, and those who don’t get it because they want social support. At least in the pandemic, government and opposition worked together, now polarization and bitterness is growing again.”
The sole hope for a moment of national unity, Mansilia says, is for Argentina to win the Football World Cup in Qatar at the end of the year.
“That will really bring the country together. If we win, everybody will be happy, no inflation or gasoline price to bother us. But right now, things are pretty miserable.”
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DETROIT (AP) — The FBI found no evidence of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa during a search of land under a New Jersey bridge, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
The Pulaski Skyway now becomes another dead end in the decadeslong mystery that has stretched from a Michigan horse farm to the East Coast: Where are the remains of one of America’s most powerful labor leaders?
The 47-year riddle turned last year to land next to a former landfill under the bridge in Jersey City. The FBI conducted a search there in early June.
“Nothing of evidentiary value was discovered during that search,” said Mara Schneider, an FBI spokeswoman in Detroit.
“While we do not currently anticipate any additional activity at the site, the FBI will continue to pursue any viable lead in our efforts to locate Mr. Hoffa,” she said.
Schneider declined to comment further when asked for details about the excavation.
Authorities believe Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit in 1975 while meeting with reputed mobsters.
Dan Moldea, a journalist who has written extensively about the Hoffa saga, said he was personally briefed by the FBI in a video conference call Thursday.
He said the FBI and its contractors did not dig in the exact spot that he had recommended.
“I’m not thrilled with the result. … My impression today was them breaking the bad news to me: Thanks for the tip but this is over. That’s my interpretation,” Moldea told The Associated Press.
“They dug holes very, very deep,” he said.
The FBI reached out to Moldea last year after he published a detailed account from Frank Cappola, who was a teenager in the 1970s when he worked at the old PJP Landfill near the bridge.
Cappola said his father, Paul Cappola, who also worked at the landfill, explained how Hoffa’s body was delivered there in 1975, placed in a steel drum and buried with other barrels, bricks and dirt.
Paul Cappola, worried that police might be watching, dug a hole on New Jersey state property, about 100 yards from the landfill, and subsequently moved the unmarked barrel there, according to Moldea.
Frank Cappola spoke to Fox Nation and Moldea before he died in 2020 and signed a document attesting to his late father’s story.
Moldea said the FBI told him it did not dig in the exact spot that he had recommended because radar showed nothing suspicious below ground.
“I do think they missed this one spot,” he said. “I think the body’s there. We just can’t find it.”
Hoffa was president of the 2.1 million-member Teamsters union from 1957-71, even keeping the title while in prison for trying to bribe jurors during a previous trial. He was released from prison in 1971 when President Richard Nixon shortened his sentence.
It has been long speculated that Hoffa, who was 62, was killed by enemies because he was planning a Teamsters comeback. He was declared legally dead in 1982.
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First on CNN: Secret Service identified potential missing text messages on phones of 10 individuals
By Whitney Wild and Jeremy Herb, CNN
Secret Service investigators were scrutinizing the phones of 10 Secret Service personnel that contained metadata showing text messages were sent and received around January 6, 2021, but were not retained, two sources told CNN.
The scrutiny came after the Department of Homeland Security inspector general asked for the text records last year of 24 individuals at the Secret Service who were involved in January 6, but only one text had been produced. After the issue spilled into public view this month, the inspector general launched a criminal investigation into the matter, and lawmakers demanded answers from the Secret Service to go back and find out what happened to the texts that may have been deleted.
But the Secret Service’s internal investigation ground to a halt after a July 20 letter from the DHS inspector general informed the agency there was an ongoing criminal investigation, directing the Secret Service to stop its own probe.
Investigators had been working to determine whether the content of the text messages sent by the 10 personnel contained relevant information that should have been preserved, the sources said. Among the 24 Secret Service personnel under scrutiny, 10 other Secret Service personnel had no text messages, and three had only personal records, according to the sources.
The details of scrutiny of messages from 10 Secret Service personnel caps an extraordinary week of turmoil for the agency, which started with the inspector general demanding answers about potential missing texts and led to a congressional subpoena and a criminal investigation into the matter.
The text messages at issue may have been deleted when the agency conducted a data migration of phones that began January 27, 2021. According to a letter sent from the Secret Service to the House select committee investigating the insurrection, which has also sought messages around January 6 from the Secret Service, the inspector general asked for records from the 24 personnel in June 2021 — more than two months after the migration had been completed.
Members of the House select committee have stressed their belief the agency should have done more to preserve records prior to the migration, citing a January 16, 2021, letter from congressional committees to multiple agencies, including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis, instructing them to preserve records related to January 6.
An appendix to that letter instructed the head of the intelligence an analysis office, Joe Maher, to circulate that request among relevant DHS components, which could, in theory, include the Secret Service.
Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service, told CNN the agency conducted an eight-hour search Thursday of various internal message systems to try to determine if the January 16 request was sent to the Secret Service. No record of that letter ever reached the Secret Service, he said.
A source familiar with the matter told CNN that the heads of the details of both former President Donald Trump and the former Vice President Mike Pence, Robert Engel and Tim Giebels, respectively, are among the 24 personnel whose text messages were requested for review by the inspector general. It’s not known whether Engel and Giebels are included in the 10 personnel whose phones contained metadata showing text messages.
Engel and Giebels did not respond to CNN requests for comment.
Before the inspector general’s letter this week, the Secret Service had told the House January 6 committee that it was engaged in “extensive efforts” to determine whether any messages were lost and if they were recoverable, including pulling metadata and interviewing the 24 agency personnel.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – An American Airlines passenger said he was covered in blood after his flight from Tampa to Nashville experienced severe turbulence on Wednesday.
The plane made an emergency landing in Birmingham, Alabama. Eight people, including six passengers and two crew members, suffered injuries and were taken to the hospital for further evaluation.
Travis Hamilton, a passenger on Wednesday’s flight, was on his way to Nashville to participate in a charity golf tournament. He was in the airplane bathroom when, about an hour into the flight, it felt like he was being whipped around on a roller coaster,” he said.
“Before I could finish washing my hands, I was on the roof of the bathroom,” Hamilton remembered. “Up and down. 10 seconds.”
When it stopped, all Hamilton could see was blood, he said.
“I looked in the mirror and it was kind of running down my face.”
After kicking his way out the bathroom, Hamilton said he saw chaos throughout the cabin.
“Oxygen masks were down,” Hamilton said. “Babies were screaming. Everybody’s kind of like, ‘What just happened?'”
Hamilton then realized he wasn’t the only one who was hurt.
“The one stewardess, man, she was messed up,” Hamilton said. “There’s blood just all over her face and the other one couldn’t hardly turn her head or neck or anything.”
A spokeswoman for American Airlines had previously issued a statement on Wednesday’s flight, saying the plane — an Embraer E175 — had experienced “unexpected turbulence” but landed without incident in Birmingham.
Hamilton, however, feels the airline should be penalized.
“The fact they gave less than a minute warning to put on our seatbelt, they need to be held accountable for it,” Hamilton claimed.
Hamilton was also checked by fire-rescue team upon landing, having suffered a small cut on his head. For his troubles, Hamilton said the airline offered a $12 meal voucher and AAdvantage miles — which wasn’t good enough, in his opinion.
“That’s very rude,” he said.
Hamilton eventually made it to his intended destination in Nashville. | https://www.fox16.com/news/american-airlines-passenger-blood-was-running-down-my-face-after-severe-turbulence-on-flight/ | 2022-07-22T19:51:53Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/american-airlines-passenger-blood-was-running-down-my-face-after-severe-turbulence-on-flight/ | false |
(The Hill) – The man who was accused of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old girl in Ohio was indicted on two felony counts of rape on Thursday.
A grand jury in Columbus charged Gerson Fuentes, 27, issued the indictment on the two felony counts. Fuentes was charged with the rape earlier this month after police said that he confessed to raping the girl twice.
After becoming pregnant, the girl was forced to travel to Indiana for an abortion due to an Ohio law which bans the procedure after fetal cardiac activity is detected, usually about six weeks into a pregnancy.
The case sparked national attention and incited further outrage among Democrats and pro-choice advocates following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade last month.
Critics say that the court’s ruling, which leaves abortion rights up to the states, could result in a large number of “deserts” in which people seeking abortions are forced to travel hundreds of miles to other states to receive the procedure.
President Biden highlighted the case during an address announcing an executive order aiming at safeguarding abortion rights.
“Raped, six weeks pregnant. Already traumatized. Was forced to travel to another state. Imagine being that little girl,” the president said.
The grand jury’s indictment comes days after the doctor who provided the abortion to the 10-year-old girl moved to sue Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) for “false and misleading statements about alleged misconduct.”
Fuentes’ arraignment is set for Monday. | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/ohio-grand-jury-indicts-man-accused-in-rape-of-10-year-old-at-center-of-indiana-abortion-controversy/ | 2022-07-22T19:52:18Z | https://www.fox16.com/news/national-news/ohio-grand-jury-indicts-man-accused-in-rape-of-10-year-old-at-center-of-indiana-abortion-controversy/ | false |
States are quietly opening the doors for more work opportunities for immigrants through specialty licenses.
Tennessee recently joined 15 other states in passing new legislation expanding access to some professional licenses for immigrants.
The rules vary state by state and based on immigration status for what professions people can apply for. In some states, it applies to specific professions like law, teaching or nursing. But more are expanding that to include other health care professions, real estate, plumbing, and more.
The specialty licenses give new career opportunities to people like Laura Lara, a DACA recipient, who has a degree in social work and now can apply for a license to practice.
“I did think about maybe moving to another state. But at the same time, it was hard because my family is here,” said Lara.
Eric Figueroa, with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, says he expects to see more of this happening. During the pandemic, he says states realized there were a lot of people with different statuses with in-demand skills. And while immigration issues are usually divisive, expanding the workforce has largely had bipartisan support.
“You will be held to the same standard if you’re an immigrant applying for that same license and that goes across the board. I’ve seen no state change the requirements for the profession,” Figueroa pointed out.
More than two million college-educated immigrants and refugees are unemployed or underemployed, according to Upwardly Global. Nearly half of recently arrived immigrants have a bachelor’s degree. | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/specialty-licenses-opening-doors-for-immigrant-workers-in-u-s | 2022-07-22T19:53:19Z | https://www.abc15.com/news/national/specialty-licenses-opening-doors-for-immigrant-workers-in-u-s | true |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
01-03-05-07-09-11-12-15-16-19-21
(one, three, five, seven, nine, eleven, twelve, fifteen, sixteen, nineteen, twenty-one) | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Midday-17322984.php | 2022-07-22T19:57:30Z | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-All-or-Nothing-Midday-17322984.php | true |
LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental and land use law firm The Sohagi Law Group announced that Partners Nicole Hoeksma Gordon and R. Tyson Sohagi have been recognized as 'Legal Visionaries' by the Los Angeles Times in its second annual Business of Law magazine. The special supplement focuses on trends and updates in the legal profession and spotlights attorneys that have "exhibited noteworthy achievements" over the last two years. Attorneys are selected based on their average success rate, settlements and verdicts won in the last three years, leadership positions within their firm and community and board affiliations and recognitions, according to the publication.
"Tyson and Nicole are both incredibly talented attorneys and have consistently proven their ability to provide the firm's clients with the highest degree of strategy and service," says Managing Partner Margaret Sohagi. "We feel honored to have them apart of this esteemed list of accomplished lawyers."
Tyson Sohagi's practice focuses upon environmental law, land use and planning law, the Coastal Act, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Public Trust Doctrine, and Election Law. Sohagi received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley that assists with SLG's review of issues involving complex legal and technical issues. He advises public clients on complex matters such as infrastructure projects (transmission lines, port facilities, airport facilities, intermodal and on-dock railroad facilities, utility plants), mass transit fees, general plans, and specific plans, specific development proposals, and other land use issues. Many of his projects have involved complicated issues pertaining to historic resources, water supply, seawater intrusion, groundwater, water quality, stormwater, wastewater, cultural resources, air quality, greenhouse gases, hazardous materials, noise, and geology. Sohagi also has substantial experience related to transportation analysis, including operational analysis involving airports (including internal airport circulation), intermodal railways facilities, development projects, construction work, county, and city-wide programmatic analysis, as well as non-vehicular analysis, including multi-modal analysis utilizing new Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) metrics.
Nicole advises public agencies on complex environmental and land use matters at the administrative, trial, and appellate levels. She focuses her practice on complex issues and projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the federal and California Endangered Species Act (ESA), and Planning and Zoning Laws. In 2021, Nicole became a co-chair for CLE International's Annual CEQA SuperConference, recognized as the state's leading CEQA legal conference. Nicole is also an Advisor to the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Section of the California Lawyers Association, which she Chaired in 2018-2019. This position places her at the forefront of the environmental law issues with which public agencies must grapple. Nicole has also been recognized as a 2021 and 2022 Southern California Super Lawyer, numerous times as a Super Lawyers "Rising Star," and as one of the Los Angeles Business Journal's "Most Influential Women Attorneys" in 2019. Additionally, Nicole frequently speaks on environmental matters at various public and private workshops, including courses and conferences sponsored by UCLA, Continuing Legal Education (CLE), the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP), and the American Planning Association (APA).
About The Sohagi Law Group
The Sohagi Law Group handles complex transactional and litigation matters for public agencies, including cities, counties, townships, state agencies, special districts, commissions and authorities. Its attorneys draw upon their extensive expertise in all areas of environmental and land use law to advise clients navigate existing laws and regulations and keep them up to date on emerging environmental issues such as climate change and greenhouse gas regulation.
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WFO SHREVEPORT Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Shreveport LA
224 PM CDT Fri Jul 22 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of central Angelina
County through 315 PM CDT...
At 223 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Huntington, or 13 miles southeast of Lufkin, moving west at 5 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 40 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.
Locations impacted include...
Lufkin, Hudson, Huntington, Burke, Shawnee and Homer.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.
LAT...LON 3128 9446 3112 9447 3114 9473 3133 9482
3140 9465
TIME...MOT...LOC 1923Z 106DEG 6KT 3124 9453
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPH
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Johnny Egan, who played for the Baltimore Bullets and five other NBA teams and recorded more than 5,000 points, 2,000 assists and 1,000 rebounds in his 11-year career, died Thursday in Houston at the age of 83. He suffered a fall in May, according to former NBA columnist and friend Peter Vecsey.
The news of Mr. Egan’s passing hit a pair of former teammates hard. Ray Scott and Mr. Egan had known each other since they were selected by the Detroit Pistons in the 1961 NBA draft.
“It shocked me yesterday when I got the news because Johnny is one of those guys that I never think of in ill health,” Mr. Scott, 84, said Friday. “I know we’re in our 80s and we go through all kinds of stuff, but my thoughts were how he was a constant lover of basketball. My last pictures in my memory of him are of him as an 80-year-old gentleman out shooting baskets with his grandson and showing him all the tricks of the trade and the things he could do because John was probably in America one of the great high school and college players. In the NBA, he was a good player.”
Kevin Loughery, 82, played three seasons with Mr. Egan on the Bullets and recalled how fit Mr. Egan looked when they, Mr. Scott and Johnny Green were honored by the Washington Wizards on Nov. 17, 2016.
“Johnny looked fantastic,” Mr. Loughery said Friday morning. “He was the same as he was physically when he played, and he had the same attitude. So this really surprised me. I know we lost [former Bullets player and coach] Gene Shue and [former Bullets player and general manager] Bobby Ferry and [former Bullets player, coach and general manager] Wes Unseld, but this really surprised me.”
As a young player in high school in Hartford, Connecticut, where he led Weaver High to a New England championship, Mr. Egan earned the nickname “Space.” According to a biography published in 2020, the nickname paid homage either to his ability to stay in the air during drives to the basket or to the length of his long-distance shots.
Mr. Loughery said Mr. Egan’s nickname was well deserved.
“He could really jump,” Mr. Loughery said. “He would be terrific in today’s game because it’s dominated by point guards. He would be fantastic. He could shoot. He had distance on his shots. He could take it to the hoop.”
At Providence, where he played beside Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkens, Mr. Egan scored 1,434 points in 80 games from 1959 to 1961 in an era when freshmen were not eligible to participate. As a senior, he led the Friars to their first National Invitational Tournament (NIT) championship with a 62-59 win against Saint Louis by averaging 18.8 points.
Mr. Scott, who was home in Philadelphia, took a train to Madison Square Garden in New York City to watch Mr. Egan and Providence play in the NIT. “He didn’t disappoint,” Mr. Scott recalled. “He was a great player.”
As rookies with the Pistons, Mr. Scott, the fourth overall choice in the 1961 NBA draft, and Mr. Egan, a second-round selection, bonded immediately. Mr. Scott, a 6-foot-9 power forward/center, said Mr. Egan, a 5-11 point guard, had a prankster-like sense of humor.
Case in point: During a team charter flight that included officials from the previous night’s game, a pilot informed all passengers to wear oxygen masks. While referee Joe Gushue slept, Mr. Egan unhooked Mr. Gushue’s mask.
“Joe woke up gasping, and we pretended we were asleep, but we kept one eye open watching him struggle,” Mr. Scott said. “It was funny to us because he was a referee. You had no power over the referees. So this was our chance. And that was one of the biggest laughs we ever had. I think we told that story 100 times, and this is the 101st time I’ve told it.”
Mr. Egan arrived in Baltimore in November 1965 as part of a trade that sent Bullets center Walt Bellamy to the New York Knicks. Mr. Egan served as a third guard to complement Don Ohl and Kevin Loughery and received a giant spark plug as a gift from Bullets fans for his role on the team.
Despite his frame that made him one of the shortest players in the league, Mr. Egan’s skills were undeniable, Mr. Scott said.
“He was a little guy, but he could jump in the air, and he had large hands,” he said. “He had the hands of a big man and long arms, and he was fast.”
Mr. Loughery, a 6-3 shooting guard, said Mr. Egan’s attitude was as bold as his drives into the lane.
“Johnny was very confident in his game,” Mr. Loughery said. “I think the one thing about him was he really believed. At that time, it was a lot of big guards, 6-3, 6-4. But he was very confident and very athletic. If he played today with no big people in the middle with the way they play today, shooting threes in that wide-open game, he’d be fantastic. He’d be an All-Star.”
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In the 1968 expansion draft, Mr. Egan was picked by the Milwaukee Bucks, who then traded him to the Los Angeles Lakers, who reached the NBA Finals in the two seasons Mr. Egan played for them. After retiring in 1972 and wrapping up a career that included 5,521 points, 2,102 assists and 1,284 rebounds, he served as head coach of the Houston Rockets from 1972 to 1976 and led the franchise to its first .500 finish and one playoff appearance in 1975.
Mr. Egan stayed in Houston and founded an insurance firm. He banded together a group of customers at the Starbucks that he frequented to participate in charitable events to give back to the community. He also served as the first on-air broadcast partner of former Rockets play-by-play announcer Bill Worrell.
Even as an elder statesman, Mr. Egan worked tirelessly to spread the game of basketball to younger generations.
“He’s an ambassador because of his love for the game,” Mr. Scott said. “He never walked away from the game. He sought to enhance the game and teach kids and do clinics. He was teaching his grandson. … He was far into his 60s, 70s and 80s. Most of us, like me, we’re looking for that recliner, and I never saw Johnny in a recliner. Never.”
Mr. Scott said he relished the chance to spend time with Mr. Egan when they honored by the Wizards six years ago.
“We sat in the hotel lobby with my son, and we talked far into the night,” he said. “So he was somebody that was in my life from beginning to end, from the time we were drafted. And now he’s gone home to heaven, and I’m going to miss that guy. He was just somebody that was perpetually in my life.”
Mr. Egan is survived by his son, John Jr., daughter, Kim, and five grandchildren. His wife Joan died of ovarian cancer in 1998. | https://www.capitalgazette.com/sports/bs-sp-ob-johnny-egan-20220722-zwx22yjeyncitobumhtqthkp4y-story.html | 2022-07-22T20:04:18Z | https://www.capitalgazette.com/sports/bs-sp-ob-johnny-egan-20220722-zwx22yjeyncitobumhtqthkp4y-story.html | false |
Meet Nova, a 4-year-old dog available for adoption at the Wisconsin Humane Society Green Bay Campus!
This smiley boy weighs 70lbs and loves to soak up the sunshine. He’s looking for a family with older kids who can continue to teach him doggie manners and provide him with lots of enrichment.
Like all dogs at WHS, Nova is neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped, plus his adoption fee has been reduced to $75! Stop in the Green Bay Campus during adoption hours to meet him! | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/pet-saver/pet-saver-nova-2/ | 2022-07-22T20:06:37Z | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/pet-saver/pet-saver-nova-2/ | true |
We got our first glimpse at the Disney Plus revival of the beloved '90s X-Men animated series, as the upcoming X-Men '97 was revealed Friday during San Diego Comic-Con. The show is scheduled to hit Disney's streaming service in fall 2023, Marvel Studios said.
This series doesn't appear to be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but we got a musical preview of it in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness -- a little bit of the show's updated theme tune plays when Professor X first appears.
The revival was among the Marvel shows announced during last November's Disney Plus Day. It'll feature "new stories in the iconic '90s timeline of the original series," which ran for five seasons from 1992 to 1997 (and is all on Disney Plus).
Most of the surviving members of the older series' voice cast are returning for X-Men '97 -- actor Cal Dodd teased his return as Wolverine back in January. | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/x-men-97-brings-marvel-mutant-revival-disney-plus-in-fall-2023/ | 2022-07-22T20:09:30Z | https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/x-men-97-brings-marvel-mutant-revival-disney-plus-in-fall-2023/ | false |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
4-1-1-8
(four, one, one, eight)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
4-1-1-8
(four, one, one, eight) | https://www.ctinsider.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17322985.php | 2022-07-22T20:10:58Z | https://www.ctinsider.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-4-Midday-game-17322985.php | false |
Chicago is an "epicenter" of the nation's monkeypox outbreak and needs more vaccine to cover those who most need protection from the virus, Dr. Allison Arwady, the city's public health commissioner, said this morning.
The virus, a relative of smallpox that causes painful lesions, is hitting Chicago—and its LGBTQ population—more acutely than almost all cities in the country, according to Arwady. | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/chicago-monkeypox-epicenter-health-chief-says | 2022-07-22T20:16:44Z | https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/chicago-monkeypox-epicenter-health-chief-says | false |
Master P is using his family's tragedy to help others.
On July 22, the rapper, 52, appeared on CBS Mornings for his first interview since his daughter Tytyana Miller passed away from an accidental drug overdose in May.
"It's hard. Coming from poverty, you would think that you would outlive your kids and that was the mission," he told host Gayle King. "I feel like, going to my daughter's funeral, I went to my own funeral."
Master P—who shares seven children with ex-wife Sonya C, and two other children from previous relationships—said he found out about Tytyana's death from one of his other daughters, saying that it was the "worst call that a parent can get."
"My sympathy go out to everybody that lost a child," he shared. "I said, 'I'm gonna turn my pain into passion and I'm gonna turn it into a purpose because I can't get my daughter back.' I love her and think about her every day, and it took me and my family to go through something that I just can't stop thinking about, but I realize that I have to get out here and help and save other kids."
Gayle then asked the rapper if he felt like Tytyana was "getting better" after she spoke openly about wanting to get help with her father and brother, Romeo Miller, on Growing Up Hip Hop.
"She was getting better," Master P replied, revealing that she had just gotten out of rehab and had begun writing a book.
"I feel like I could have done more. But you never know," the hip hop mogul admitted, adding that he and his family had been supporting Tytyana through her addiction for nine years. "My daughter had a lot of life left in her. She was a happy woman that knew that tomorrow she could do something better."
Master P is now using his daughter's passing to help other families who are dealing with mental illness and substance abuse.
"When I got that phone call I realized my daughter is never coming back, and that's the heartbreaking thing about this," he explained. "And that's why I said, 'Let me team up with NAMI, let me team up with ARJ Cares.' I want to help people that look like us. We want to bring awareness to this. I'm going to get out here and save millions."
And Master P has the perfect advice for families who are experiencing what he went through. "Talk about it. Don't hold this as a secret," he said. "When you talk about mental illness and substance abuse, people don't want to say, 'This happened to my kids.' But this is affecting us as Americans. Don't be afraid." | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1339104/master-p-reflects-on-heartbreaking-death-of-his-daughter-tytyana-miller?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | 2022-07-22T20:18:39Z | https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1339104/master-p-reflects-on-heartbreaking-death-of-his-daughter-tytyana-miller?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories | false |
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City correction officer has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man in the Bronx while the officer was off duty, authorities said.
Officer Dion Middleton, 45, was arrested Thursday in the shooting of Raymond Chaluisant, 18, the police department said in a statement.
Chaluisant was shot in the face around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, police said. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Middleton was arrested hours later on charges of murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.
Police said a toy gun that shoots gel beads made of water was found near the shooting scene. It was not clear whether Chaluisant had fired the gun, called a gel blaster or bead blaster.
The police department later tweeted that bead blasters, considered a type of air rifle, are illegal in New York City.
Middleton was awaiting arraignment Friday. Information about his attorney wasn't immediately available. A message seeking comment was left with Middleton's union, the Correction Officers' Benevolent Association.
Louis Molina, the city correction commissioner, said in a statement that Middleton would be suspended without pay, “and if the charges are true, he will face the full consequences of the law and be terminated.”
The state attorney general’s office is handling Middleton’s prosecution because he is a law enforcement officer. | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Off-duty-NYC-correction-officer-charged-in-fatal-17322963.php | 2022-07-22T20:28:37Z | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Off-duty-NYC-correction-officer-charged-in-fatal-17322963.php | false |
Blame it on lingering effects of the pandemic, resentment over the lockout or economic fears.
Major League Baseball is struggling to fill the stands at pre-COVID levels as the sport heads into the last 2 1/2 months of its first season since 2019 without capacity restrictions.
MLB reached the All-Star break with an average attendance of 26,409. That represents a drop of 5.4% from the All-Star break of 2019 — which was 10 days earlier than this year.
League officials remain encouraged and point to the recovery.
“We have come back to between 94-95% of where we were prior to the pandemic,” MLB chief revenue officer Noah Garden said. “So we feel really good about the progress we have made on the attendance side rebounding strongly from a situation that threatened the very core of how we operate as an industry.”
Attendance is up over 70% from the season-ending average in 2021, when only Texas started at full capacity and all 30 teams weren’t at 100% until July 2. MLB played its abbreviated 2020 regular season without spectators.
While MLB’s average attendance had fallen each year since 2015, most of the drops were by less than 2%. Average attendance was over 30,000 for 14 straight seasons from 2004-17 but hasn’t reached that mark since.
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“Attendance has been dropping about 1% a year — year after year — for about the last 15 years,” said Victor Matheson, a Holy Cross economics professor who specializes in sports economics. “Major League Baseball attendance peaked in 2007 and has been falling pretty consistently year after year for over a decade. What we’d just normally expect after about three years is about 3% lower attendance.”
Bob Heaning, a 48-year-old fan from Cranford, New Jersey, said he used to attend about a dozen New York Yankees games per year. He’s attended just three this season, has tickets for two more games and doesn’t plan to attend any others.
Heaning said he stopped going as often because he bought a house last year and is staying at home more often, but he also believes the high price of attending games may be keeping fans away. That could prove particularly true this year as inflation causes more people to spend more carefully.
“I think people are maybe more concerned,” Hearing said. “There’s not as much expendable income.”
Matheson said MLB relies more than other professional sports leagues on out-of-town fans. That makes MLB particularly vulnerable to issues that could curtail tourism.
“If travel’s disrupted, either by expensive gas prices or expensive airline tickets or just general travel disruptions, that could make a big dent,” Matheson said.
Charles Lindsey, an associate professor of marketing at the University at Buffalo School of Management, noted that single-game ticket sales remain solid but season ticket sales have gone down. He said the NBA faced a similar problem this season.
Lindsey cited inflation as a leading cause and said the pandemic may have contributed to a lesser extent.
“But those are factors that are common across all sorts of recreational experiences,” Lindsey said. “And a lot of recreational entertainment — dining out, travel — a lot of those areas are back to pre-pandemic levels.”
Lindsey believes dissatisfaction because of the lockout may have caused some fans not to renew their season tickets. He also speculated some franchises might have reduced their staffs during the pandemic and paid for it with reduced ticket sales.
Teams have been particularly hard hit in group sales.
Rick Schlesinger, the Brewers’ president of business operations, said last month at a Milwaukee Press Club gathering that the team’s group-ticket sales normally total about 600,000 annually. Schlesinger estimated that total would be about 400,000 this season.
He noted some businesses are still working remotely and therefore are having fewer group outings, and that not as many schools as usual have made ballpark trips.
“The group business has not returned to anywhere near normal levels, frankly not surprisingly,” Schlesinger said.
Oakland’s attendance has plunged nearly 55% from its 2019 All-Star break level. The Athletics dramatically cut payroll amid concerns about the franchise’s future in the Bay Area as they seek a new stadium.
Other teams whose attendance has dropped at least 15% from where they were at the 2019 break include Arizona (26.7%), Pittsburgh (20.8%), Washington (19.7%), Philadelphia (17.9%), Cincinnati (17.8%), Cleveland (16.3%), LA Angels (15.1%) and Kansas City (15.1%).
The only teams with attendance increases from their 2019 break averages are Toronto (48.5%), San Diego (29.4%), Miami (23.3%), Atlanta (19.1%), Seattle (12.7%), the Chicago White Sox (9.5%), Detroit (6.9%) and the New York Mets (4.8%).
This year’s 99-day lockout wasn’t settled until March 10, resulting in a revised schedule.
“That absolutely affected the cadence of our ticket sales, both our single-game tickets and our groups,” Schlesinger said. “We were trying to sell group tickets in an environment where I couldn’t tell you exactly when our season was going to start or what our home schedule was going to look like.”
That’s one hurdle teams won’t face in the upcoming offseason, giving MLB reason for optimism.
“If you would have told me in 2020 that we would be 95% back to 2019 levels in two years, I would have taken that deal 100 out of 100 times,” Garden said. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/mlb-struggling-to-get-attendance-back-to-pre-pandemic-levels/3024027/ | 2022-07-22T20:30:31Z | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/sports/mlb-struggling-to-get-attendance-back-to-pre-pandemic-levels/3024027/ | true |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A man from Lynnwood, Washington, is facing a federal charge after allegedly calling a Tops Markets store in Buffalo and threatening to shoot Black shoppers.
Joey David George, 37, called the North Buffalo grocer on July 19 and 20, threatening to shoot Black patrons, according to the United States Attorney Western District of Washington’s office.
The criminal complaint against George alleged that called the Tops on Elmwood Avenue on July 19 and told an employee over the phone that he felt he would “make the news if he shot and killed all of the Black people” in the store, “including all of the women, children, and babies.” He allegedly told the employee there was a chance he was already in the store, or somewhere nearby.
George ranted about a “race war” when the called again the next day, according to the complaint. “This is what happens in a blue state,” George allegedly said, referencing the fact that New York generally votes for Democrats in statewide elections.
Law enforcement was able to trace the telephone number and identify George as the caller.
The threat against this Tops location, on Elmwood Avenue, came just over two months after a racially motivated mass shooting at a different Tops location on Jefferson Avenue on May 14, in which 10 Black people were killed and three other patrons were injured.
George was charged Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Seattle with making interstate threats.
George will make his initial appearance in court Friday at 2 p.m. PDT. He’s currently behind bars in SeaTac, Washington, at the Federal Detention Center.
“The Buffalo community is trying to heal from the horrific shooting at a Tops grocery store. I cannot imagine the type of fear such hate-fueled threats engendered in those just trying to go about their daily lives,” said U.S. Attorney Nick Brown, in a statement included with a Friday news release. “We cannot tolerate this kind of hate in our community and will not sit by while people seek to terrorize others across our country.”
George has also been charged for an alleged May 2022 call where he threatened to shoot Black and Hispanic patrons at a restaurant in San Bruno, California, according to the USAO.
Over the last year, Brown is also accused of making a string of hate-fueled phone calls to businesses in Maryland, Connecticut and Washington State. In these calls, George allegedly “used racial slurs and threats to shoot customers at the businesses because of his racial hatred,” per the news release. | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/man-arrested-for-allegedly-threatening-to-kill-black-shoppers-at-another-tops-supermarket-in-buffalo/ | 2022-07-22T20:34:00Z | https://www.wivb.com/news/national/man-arrested-for-allegedly-threatening-to-kill-black-shoppers-at-another-tops-supermarket-in-buffalo/ | true |
New York Times column calls to ‘end the Electoral College in its current form’ by hyping threats of mischief
Columnist Jamelle Bouie argued the Electoral College allowed Trump to challenge results
The New York Times published a column that calls to "end the Electoral College in its current form" by using the threat of a coup to justify the longtime left-wing goal of abolishing the system used to determine the president.
Times opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie penned, "There’s a Reason Trump Could Try to Overturn the Results of the 2020 Election," which begins by declaring the Senate "isn’t entirely useless" because of a bipartisan effort to make it harder to overturn the results of future presidential election.
"A direct response to Donald Trump’s multipronged attempt to stay in power, the bill is meant to keep a future candidate for president, including a losing incumbent, from following the same playbook," Bouie wrote.
"At its heart, the bill is a major revision of the 1887 Electoral Count Act, which Trump and his legal team tried to exploit to create confusion over the certification of electors and the counting of electoral votes. Specifically, Trump pressured Republican state legislators in key swing states he lost to throw out votes and send false slates of electors in place of those won by Joe Biden. He then coordinated with allies in Congress to object to the counting of Biden’s electors and pushed former Vice President Mike Pence to toss out those electors and, if needed, move the election to the House of Representatives, where Republicans controlled enough state delegations to keep him in office," Bouie continued. "The bill would address each part of the scheme. It would require states to choose electors according to the laws that existed before Election Day and prevent state legislatures from overriding the popular vote by declaring a ‘failed election.’"
The Times columnist further explained what he considers a "good bill," but indicated he’s unsure if it can actually pass the Senate.
"It blocks many of the most immediate threats to presidential elections and closes most avenues for postelection subversion under the current system. At the same time, it should be said that the reason that any of this is possible — the reason Trump had a path to overturning the results of the election in the first place — is the antidemocratic aspect of the current system," Bouie wrote. "Even with the provisions of this bill in place, the Electoral College provides any number of opportunities for mischief."
The columnist believes the Electoral College offers an incentive to "meddle" with the process.
"The fact that the loser of the national popular vote can become the winner of a national election is an additional incentive to subvert the voting process and impede access to the ballot box. And the fact that a legislature could, before the election itself, simply allocate electors to the candidate of its choice without any input from the public is an ongoing and ever-present threat to electoral democracy," he wrote.
Bouie believes many Americans feel "every Californian is a San Francisco liberal and every Texan is a right-wing Dallas suburbanite," but the Times columnist disagrees with that notion.
"The Electoral College makes it difficult to see that each state contains a multitude of political perspectives, and that our democracy might be a little healthier if the vote of a Seattle Republican mattered as much for the outcome of a presidential election as that of a Green Bay Democrat," he wrote. "The single most important reform we could make for our presidential elections is to end the Electoral College in its current form, whether that means a national popular vote or the proportional allocation of electors (which already exists in both Maine and Nebraska) or some hybrid of the two."
Bouie concluded the piece by noting that Americans should "scrap the rules that make subversion a tempting option to begin with" instead of simply patching holes in the current process.
"With that said, the most important safeguard for our electoral system isn’t a particular set of rules and arrangements, but political actors who accept defeat, honor the results of an election and allow the winner to take and exercise the power to which they’re entitled. And it is a serious, possibly existential problem for American democracy that a large part of one of our two major parties just doesn’t want to play ball," he wrote. | https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-column-calls-end-electoral-college-current-form-hyping-threats-mischief | 2022-07-22T20:37:32Z | https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-column-calls-end-electoral-college-current-form-hyping-threats-mischief | false |
The man who (almost) became king! Virginia farmer who claimed a patch of desert to make his daughter a princess ended up in talks for a US airbase with Mike Flynn and fending off Chinese investors to make his 'kingdom' a real country
- In 2015, Jeremiah Heaton planted a flag in the unclaimed Bir Tawil, a 795 square mile patch of land between Egypt and Sudan
- His original plan was just to entertain his then seven-year-old daughter who wanted to become a princess
- But Jeremiah says he was then inundated with offers from 15,000 people who wanted to live in his kingdom
- He tells DailyMail.com he ended up in talks with Mike Flynn to build a US Airbase on the land to launch drone strikes against terrorists from
- Jeremiah, 44, traveled to China and then Thailand to develop his idea with a shady investment firm
- Eventually, he reported them to the FBI after learning they planned to sell nationality to Chinese defectors
- Heaton lives in Virginia with his wife and three children; the family is the subject of The King of North Sudan, a new documentary that recently launched on iTunes, Amazon Prime, Google Play and YouTube
Jeremiah Heaton, a 44-year-old farmer from Virginia, made himself the King of North Sudan in 2015 when he staked claim to a patch of land in the desert between Sudan and Egypt. Now, he tells DailyMail.com about his plans very nearly came true
Jeremiah Heaton, a 44-year-old farmer from Virginia, amused the world in 2015 by staking claim to a patch of land in between Sudan and Egypt so that his then seven-year-old daughter could become a real-life princess.
The land was 795 square miles of empty desert named Bir Tawil, which he rebranded as the Kingdom of North Sudan.
After scouring the internet for an empty kingdom for Emily, Heaton made the grueling trip to his new land and planted a green and gold flag. He posted a photo of the trip on Facebook to delight his friends and relaxed in the knowledge that he'd lived up to his promise to his daughter.
Soon, his overindulgent parenting caught headlines around the world.
He found himself inundated with offers from people who wanted to come and live in his new kingdom which is around the same size as Mauritius, but without electricity, water, roads or any other kind of infrastructure.
Today, he remains the 'king' of the territory - despite never returning after his flag-planting visit - and is the subject of a documentary on iTunes, Amazon Prime, Google Play and YouTube.
But speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, Heaton revealed how his seemingly farfetched plan led him into conversations with Mike Flynn and a gaggle of Chinese investors who he ultimately reported to the FBI.
He also told how left-wing media labeled him a modern-day colonizer because he was white, despite having support from Egypt and Sudan to launch an economy.
There were early talks for a US airbase that would be used to launch terrorist drone strikes away from the prying eyes of Europe, promises of a solar farm to generate power that he could sell to neighboring African countries.
He even spoke with Sudanese and Egyptian officials working together to build an economy - and country - seemingly out of thin air.
Jeremiah Heaton, in 2015, planting his flag in Bir Tawil, an unoccupied and unclaimed 795-square mile patch of land in the middle of the desert between Sudan and Egypt
Bir Tawil is a 795-square mile patch of land between Egypt and Sudan. It's around the same size as Mauritius but without electricity, water, roads or any other kind of infrastructure
Despite his grand plans, he never intended to live there, nor does he care now if someone else wishes to make the country viable.
'I did not have any plans to live in a tent in the desert with my family. I was never going to move my family there and I don't have a death grip on Bir Tawil,' he said.
'Princess' Emily was seven when her father claimed the country in her honor. Now, she is 15 and mortified
Heaton traveled to China then Bangkok seeking out partners to launch the project and turned down offers from 'thousands' of nomads who said they'd give him their life savings in exchange for citizenship.
'More than 15,000 people messaged, over the span of time, expressed some sort of interest.
'You would not believe the number of people who do not have a home. I had a strong, strong calling from the Kurdish community asking for citizenship in Bir Tawil, people from Palestine, a lot of displaced people from Israel. You have a lot of people without a home who are looking for one.
'But we never sold citizenships. It’s unconscionable to me to do something like that.'
In the end, none of it materialized. The only thing in Bir Tawil now are a few Sudanese gold-miners who he claims root through the land for goods to sell in their own markets every few weeks.
Heaton remains in Virginia with his wife Kelly and three kids. Emily, now 15, couldn't care less about royal status.
It's an extraordinary story of optimism that despite the world's sneering, almost made an ordinary man a king.
After planting his flag in the desert in 2015, the world largely lost interest in Heaton's venture after an initial flurry of interest.
But he privately received offers from Americans and others around the world who were desperate to live in his new kingdom.
He told DailyMail.com that 15,000 people came forward volunteering to be part of the country's first population.
Jeremiah in 'The King of North Sudan' - a documentary on iTunes, Amazon Prime, Google Play and YouTube.
In the years that followed, he looked in to making the farfetched dream a reality. One of the more surprising signs of encouragement came from General Mike Flynn, Trump's disgraced former national security adviser.
Heaton came across Flynn before he became involved in the Trump administration. They met at a conference in Washington DC and were introduced by a mutual friend, Heaton claims.
Among those who gave Heaton encouragement was General Mike Flynn. They had several conversations about a US Airbase in Bir Tawil, but they all fell apart when Flynn was kicked out of Trump's White House
'After the conference, the host pulled Mike and I together aside and had a pretty in depth conversation. Mike was running a consultancy firm at the time, he was just getting his business started. That’s how the discussion occurred.'
Their discussion that day and in subsequent emails and phone calls centered around the proposal of building a US airbase on Heaton's land.
'Africom is not in Africa – it sits in Germany – there’s a need that exists for the US military to have a facility that allows them to operate without some of the conventional blowback that exists when they’re running attacks in the region.
'They have a base in Djibouti and it’s a shared commercial airport.
'It’s a weird way to conduct business when you’re running drone strikes against terrorists.
'Having an area where you can put an airfield like Bir Tawil where there’ no conflicting issues, from a strategic standpoint, it was interesting.
'You’ll find a lot of people in the DOD who are visionaries, have big ideas, and this just happened to be something that from a planning standpoint had some legs to it.
'I was not totally off base in pursuing a conversation of how this region could be used for something.'
When Trump took office and appointed Flynn to a senior position, Heaton became even more excited.
'Selling the idea and getting through the chain of command under Obama was not ever going to happen but with Trump there was a possibility that it could. I did think we have a shot here...we’d already had the conversation with him months prior. It was an existing discussion.
'We felt once he got settled in, we could circle back to him and revisit the conversation.'
But Flynn was fired after less than a month in office, killing Heaton's optimistic hopes of having the project bolstered by the Oval Office.
Seeking a new partner, he ventured next to China. Ditching the plan for the air base, the next best thing - he thought - might be a solar farm that would generate energy he could sell to Sudan or Egypt and begin to establish an economy.
The documentary trails Heaton as he travels to China to meet with the investors from the China Arab Peace Commission.
Jeremiah meeting with Chinese investors in 2016 after his story made headlines around the world. Their plan was to build a solar farm in Bir Tawil where he would generate energy to sell to Egypt and Sudan
Jeremiah in China with his would-be investors, toasting their plans for the kingdom with warm orange juice
Jeremiah's negotiations with Thai and Chinese investors fell apart. In the end, he discovered that some of them planned to sell fake passports to his kingdom to unwitting Chinese defectors. He reported the fund to the FBI, and returned home to Virginia
He appears in the film toasting his potential new business partners with warm orange juice and promising to name roads after them all in the new kingdom if their deal goes through.
The documentary doesn't drill down on the details of why those negotiations stalled, but Heaton tells DailyMail.com the conversation simple lost momentum.
'The timing of the trip caused it to lose momentum. I was there two weeks before the Chinese New Year, they’re down for a month and a half before they come back online,' he said.
During his time in China he toured a solar farm looking for inspiration to build one of his own. Ultimately, the commission didn't come through with any kind of investment and Heaton continued his quest, this time hopping to Thailand where he became embedded with a shadowy investment firm.
To Jeremiah, the investors seemed legitimate.
'They wanted to be the exclusive development partner for the activities. They wanted to build the solar from, the city. Everything I received suggested they were legitimate.
'I wish I had kept the documents that they provided to me – they rolled out blue prints, the whole thing had been surveyed. This was not anything that was just thrown together to impress me. This stuff, they had been working on it.'
Before long, their real plan was exposed; the Ming Wei investors wanted to sell passports to disenchanted Chinese nationals desperate for a new country to claim.
They wanted to rebrand it themselves as 'The Kingdom of New Legend' to make it more appealing to Asian nomads who they could flog passports to for $20,000.
Jeremiah discovered the plan when one of the disgruntled 'investors' came clean in a fit of rage at his colleagues.
Jeremiah reported the plan to the FBI and returned to America to his family in Virginia.
Jeremiah's farm in Virginia. He and his family are now growing hemp - among other projects
Jeremiah with his wife Kelly, their two sons and his daughter, Emily. He says he hopes the documentary will 'embarrass' the kids for years to come and that he has no regrets
In total, he spent $50,000 trying to get the country off the ground, a small dent in the savings he acquired through mining, engineering and real estate projects.
He doesn't regret it, but says he has no claim to the land now.
'It became a hobby. After the government of Sudan fell apart, I gave up working on it. If you look at the politics of Sudan, things have not settled down the point I’d feel comfortable entering an agreement with the government. In Sudan.. things are not fully stable yet. If you take away the hokey-ness that’s presented in “hey, here’s this rural guy who may or may not be able to do this”… anything in life is challenging.
'Everything we do is a challenge. Success is never guaranteed. One dynamic in me that’s labelled as being a wide-eyed optimist… I am not deterred by failure. I expect failure – that’s how you learn.
'There have been other people who came along, an Indian guy who never even went to Bir Tawil. A Russian guy went six months after me… I see him as some guy trying to do the same thing that I want to do. He went and planted the Russian flag.
'But as far as having any death grip on Bir Tawil? I don’t, it’s an empty patch of desert. Right now, it’s not front and center. The only thing that’s happening is the documentary being released. It is a product of Hollywood, from a pool of film, for which you could extrapolate anything.'
As for Princess Emily, she too has moved on.
'It was just a phase. It was cool for a year or two. She is a very well grounded teenager focused on school and trying to figure out where to go to college. We’re blessed to have three wonderful children. We’re very blessed to have children that are positively engaged in the world that they live in.
'I hope the documentary provides them with years of embarrassment!' | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11009971/Whatever-happened-King-North-Sudan.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-22T20:38:36Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11009971/Whatever-happened-King-North-Sudan.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — Rays shortstop Wander Franco reportedly had over $650,000 in jewelry stolen from his car while he was on rehab assignment in June.
ESPN reported around 3 a.m. on June 22, Kahlil Eugene Mathis, 24, broke into Franco’s Rolls-Royce SUV outside a DoubleTree hotel in Jacksonville and stole a safe that had seven pieces of jewelry in it.
The safe reportedly contained:
- A $300,000 gold, diamond-encrusted Cuban link chain and circle medallion with a W and diamonds on it
- A $200,000 rose gold Cuban link chain with diamonds
- A $70,000 gold pendant with a green and blue “FRANCO 5” medallion
- A $44,000 Rolex watch with diamonds
- A $20,000 American League championship ring
- A $20,000 Durham Bulls championship ring
- A $5,000 gold Jerry pendant from the “Tom and Jerry” cartoon
According to reports, Mathis sold two of the items to a pawn shop the next day.
After Mathis was arrested, ESPN reported police found the safe in his bedroom closet with both of the championship rings inside. The two Cuban link chains and the Rolex have not been found yet.
Mathis was reportedly wanted for three other car burglaries at the time of his arrest.
Records obtained by ESPN showed Mathis is in jail and faces charges from nine other incidents since January. Four of them involved felony burglary.
Franco was in Jacksonville playing with the Durham Bulls at the time while he was recovering from a strained quadriceps that caused him to miss several games.
Mathis is being held on a $906,566 bond, deputies told ESPN. | https://www.wfla.com/sports/rays/rays-wander-franco-has-650k-in-jewelry-stolen-from-car-report-says/ | 2022-07-22T20:38:40Z | https://www.wfla.com/sports/rays/rays-wander-franco-has-650k-in-jewelry-stolen-from-car-report-says/ | false |
Injured Deng out of Commonwealth Games
Former Australian 800m record holder Joseph Deng has been forced to withdraw from the Birmingham Commonwealth Games team due to an Achilles tendon injury.
It is the same injury that ruled the 24-year-old Deng out of the world championships in Eugene.
Australian team medical officials wanted to give Deng an injection to bring down the inflammation in his Achilles, but that would need to have been administered more than five days before the start of competition and they ran out of time.
"Everything was going really well," Deng's coach Justin Rinaldi told AAP.
"Joe had a little bit of a quad niggle before he ran the 1:44 (in France in early July) and we backed off training.
"I think because he was trying to protect that quad it hurt the Achilles on the other leg.
"It's a bit of bad luck because he was coming in off a short build-up, he didn't have a massive base.
"We had to take some risks and it was probably a bit much too soon."
Deng set the national record of 1 minute 44.21 seconds in 2018, a time that stood for three years until it was bettered by his training partner Peter Bol at last year's Tokyo Olympics.
Athletics Australia (AA) are hoping to bring in Jye Perrott as a like-for-like 800m replacement for Deng in the Commonwealth Games squad but it seems like a long shot.
AA and James Templeton, who manages Perrott, Deng and Bol, have made representations to Commonwealth Games Australia on Perrott's behalf.
The 23-year-old clocked a PB of 1:45.61 in Germany in June.
Australia's other entrants in the men's 800m for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, which begin next week, are Bol and Charlie Hunter. | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11040573/Injured-Deng-Commonwealth-Games.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | 2022-07-22T20:39:22Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-11040573/Injured-Deng-Commonwealth-Games.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490 | false |
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Three weeks before the most significant election of her political career, Liz Cheney was nowhere to be seen as thousands of voters gathered for a massive midsummer rodeo and cowboy festival in Wyoming’s largest city.
Instead, the three-term Republican congresswoman was 1,600 miles away in Washington presiding over a U.S. House committee comprised largely of Democrats intent on exposing former President Donald Trump’s attack on democracy during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. As the cowboy fest roared back home, Cheney railed against Trump’s failures.
“Donald Trump made a purposeful choice to violate his oath of office,” she said during Thursday’s hearing.
Dean Finnerty, a rancher from Wheatland competing in the steer wrestling competition, was not moved.
“I tell you what: I voted for Cheney when she ran last time and I won’t vote for her ever again,” Finnerty said. “I don’t know if she’s representing the conservative Americans that voted her in.”
Cheney’s unrelenting criticism of Trump from a Capitol Hill committee room represents the centerpiece of an unconventional campaign strategy that may well lead to her political demise, at least in the short term. Many Cheney allies are prepared for — if not resigned to — a loss in Wyoming’s Aug. 16 Republican primary against Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman.
But as primary day approaches, there is also a pervasive belief among Cheney’s team that her unorthodox strategy in 2022 may put her in a stronger position for the 2024 presidential contest. Cheney’s fierce anti-Trump message as vice chairman of the congressional committee investigating the insurrection has strengthened her national brand while expanding a national network of donors and Trump critics in both parties who could boost a prospective White House run.
Cheney has yet to finalize any decisions about 2024, but she has not ruled out a presidential run as a Republican or an independent.
“The single most important thing is protecting the nation from Donald Trump,” Cheney said in interview with ABC News that aired Friday. She said she would make a decision about a potential White House bid “down the road.”
Cheney’s supporters understand the political paradox she faces in Wyoming, the state where Trump scored his largest margin of victory, 43 points, less than two years ago.
“She knew that she was shooting herself in the foot politically (in Wyoming) and she was going to walk around with a limp for the rest of her life,” Landon Brown, a Wyoming state representative and Cheney ally, said of Cheney’s unwavering Trump criticism. “But I could see this blossoming into something larger.”
Cheney, the 55-year-old daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is perhaps the best known among a small group of so-called “Never Trump” Republicans weighing presidential bids for 2024. They include term-limited Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Cheney’s only Republican colleague on the Jan. 6 commission, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who opted not to seek reelection this fall.
Trump would likely dominate a large field of presidential primary opponents should he run again, as he has said he will. But there is also a notable group of Republican voters eager to move past Trump and his continued fight to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Still, few believe that an outspoken Trump critic could ultimately prevail in a Republican presidential primary. The vast majority of Republican voters still approve of Trump.
And while her allies may be optimistic about her long-term future, Cheney would certainly like to avoid a blowout loss next month in her home state.
It won’t be easy.
Facing consistent and credible death threats, she has been forced to abandon traditional retail campaigning, trading public rallies and town halls for private events where her presence is often revealed to the public only after their conclusion, if at all.
She has essentially been excommunicated by the Wyoming Republican Party, which voted last year to censure Cheney before deciding to stop recognizing her as a Republican altogether. Local GOP offices offer yard signs for Hageman and many other Republicans on the ballot but not Cheney.
Left with few options, she has turned to Democrats for help. Her campaign website now features a link to a form allowing voters to change their party affiliation to Republican to participate in the Republican primary.
Kinzinger’s political team is helping to accelerate her crossover push.
“We need more principled leaders like Liz to ensure that those who want our democracy to fail don’t succeed,” Kinzinger told AP. “There has never been more urgency for pro-democracy voters to participate in primary elections.”
Cheney has resisted private pressure from some allies to shift away from her anti-Trump message. Many Republicans on the ballot this year who criticized Trump after Jan. 6 have since tried to sidestep the controversy by focusing on local issues in their districts, President Joe Biden or runaway inflation.
Cheney has refused to soften her message, instead leaning into Trump at the biggest moments of her campaign.
In her reelection campaign announcement video this May, she promised to “reject the lies” while not surrendering “to pressure or intimidation.” I n her closing statement at last month’s Republican primary debate, she called out “the lies of Donald Trump,” vowing, “I will never put party above my duty to the country.”
Meanwhile, Trump has made Cheney’s defeat a chief priority.
He called her a “despicable human being” on his social media site this month. And in May, Trump traveled to Wyoming’s second-largest city, Casper, to rally support for his preferred Cheney successor, conservative attorney Harriet Hageman.
As Cheney focuses her energy on the Jan. 6 commission, Hageman has barnstormed the state courting small, rural crowds in the traditional mold of Wyoming politicking. The approach is more like the one Cheney herself used to top a crowded Republican primary field to win Wyoming’s lone House seat in 2016.
Friends and foes alike have noticed her absence this year.
“I do know that Liz absolutely wants to be out across the state meeting with all our residents,” said Paul Ulrich, a former chairman of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming and a Cheney supporter. “It’s painful for her to have these security concerns. It’s disgusting that it’s come to this.”
The Capitol Police assigned Cheney a personal security detail last August, a step taken only when members of Congress are facing credible security threats.
Dean “Doc” Schroeder, a registered Democrat now planning to change his registration to vote for Cheney in the GOP primary, has been impressed by Cheney’s leadership on the Jan. 6 commission. He said it may not matter whether the congresswoman spends more time in the state given Wyoming’s overwhelming Republican majority.
“A very large proportion of that wouldn’t care if she came flying into the election on angel’s wings. They’re not going to vote for her,” said Schroeder, a retired psychologist and Frontier Days Rodeo volunteer. “So I don’t know that it has hurt her anything. And I’m a perfect example of how her behavior in Washington has helped her.”
Some Cheney allies are skeptical there are enough Democratic crossover votes to put her over the top next month.
“I wouldn’t want to put any money on this race,” said Marilyn Kite, a former state Supreme Court justice who supports Cheney. “I hope like heck she’s successful, but if she isn’t, maybe her being true to her oath truly is more important in the long run.”
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Peoples reported from New York | https://www.kark.com/news/politics/ap-politics/liz-cheney-braces-for-primary-loss-as-focus-shifts-to-2024/ | 2022-07-22T20:39:43Z | https://www.kark.com/news/politics/ap-politics/liz-cheney-braces-for-primary-loss-as-focus-shifts-to-2024/ | false |
I have been skeptical of The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power since I first heard that Amazon had purchased the rights to some of Tolkien’s appendices of The Silmarillion.
The first images and brief teaser trailers also failed to inspire my confidence. Amazon’s promotional efforts did more harm than good, and the whole project came across as an expensive and admittedly pretty exercise in misunderstanding Tolkien’s world.
Would this be yet another adaptation focused on token diversity and powerful female characters that simply act like strong men? Or would there be substance and depth here? Just as importantly, would a prequel tale—even one set thousands of years in the past—be high-stakes enough given that we know what happens at the end of The Lord Of The Rings?
Prequels are hard to pull off, even in an established universe like Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
Not all these fears have been put to bed by the latest trailer, debuted this morning at San Diego Comic-Con, but I have new hope in the production. This is a damn good trailer that doesn’t just show off the expensive sets and special effects, but gives us a real glimpse at the kind of story The Rings Of Power is trying to tell. Check it out:
We see lots of the show’s characters in here, but most intriguing is Sauron himself, before he dons the big scary armor and is represented as a burning eye-in-the-sky. Here, we see him as a young man in a white cloak. “There have been many lies told about Middle-earth,” he says ominously at the end of the trailer.
Alongside orcs, we also get a glimpse at another familiar monstrosity: A Balrog, almost certainly one that will play antagonist to the dwarves of Khazad-dûm, led by Durin IV (Owain Arthur).
The other big news out of today’s Comic-Con panel: James Horner and Bear McCreary, two of the most successful and talented composers working in entertainment, will be teaming up on the show’s musical score. If nothing else, we can surely look forward to that.
The Comic-Con panel, hosted by Tolkien fanatic Stephen Colbert, also showed off several clips from the first season. The first showed a rock-chopping competition between Durin IV and elven lord Elrond (Robert Aramayo). You recall Durin in the trailer proclaiming, “There can be no trust between hammer and rock. In the end one must break.”
In the second clip, two Harfoots (aka Hobbits) find a sleeping giant surrounded by flame. Nori (Markella Kavenagh) and Poppy Proudfellow (Megan Richards) wake the giant upon which the flames disappear, only to reappear when he falls asleep. A useful nap security system.
In the third clip shows the elf Arondir (Ismael Cruz Cordova) in an orc slave pit, chained, attempt to make his escape.
Another clip showed off Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) speaking in elvish with Elrond with a bit of a romantic vibe. Another scene with Galadriel shows her sailing into Númenor in all its glory.
Amazon spared no expense on the panel which featured a full orchestra and numerous members of the show’s cast as well as its creators. “It’s a story of hope and approaching darkness,” Colbert said as he introduced the panel, “this being Tolkien, it’s a story of loss.” | https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2022/07/22/sauron-rises-in-stunning-comic-con-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-trailer/ | 2022-07-22T20:41:10Z | https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2022/07/22/sauron-rises-in-stunning-comic-con-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-trailer/ | false |
LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental and land use law firm The Sohagi Law Group announced that Partners Nicole Hoeksma Gordon and R. Tyson Sohagi have been recognized as 'Legal Visionaries' by the Los Angeles Times in its second annual Business of Law magazine. The special supplement focuses on trends and updates in the legal profession and spotlights attorneys that have "exhibited noteworthy achievements" over the last two years. Attorneys are selected based on their average success rate, settlements and verdicts won in the last three years, leadership positions within their firm and community and board affiliations and recognitions, according to the publication.
"Tyson and Nicole are both incredibly talented attorneys and have consistently proven their ability to provide the firm's clients with the highest degree of strategy and service," says Managing Partner Margaret Sohagi. "We feel honored to have them apart of this esteemed list of accomplished lawyers."
Tyson Sohagi's practice focuses upon environmental law, land use and planning law, the Coastal Act, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Public Trust Doctrine, and Election Law. Sohagi received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley that assists with SLG's review of issues involving complex legal and technical issues. He advises public clients on complex matters such as infrastructure projects (transmission lines, port facilities, airport facilities, intermodal and on-dock railroad facilities, utility plants), mass transit fees, general plans, and specific plans, specific development proposals, and other land use issues. Many of his projects have involved complicated issues pertaining to historic resources, water supply, seawater intrusion, groundwater, water quality, stormwater, wastewater, cultural resources, air quality, greenhouse gases, hazardous materials, noise, and geology. Sohagi also has substantial experience related to transportation analysis, including operational analysis involving airports (including internal airport circulation), intermodal railways facilities, development projects, construction work, county, and city-wide programmatic analysis, as well as non-vehicular analysis, including multi-modal analysis utilizing new Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) metrics.
Nicole advises public agencies on complex environmental and land use matters at the administrative, trial, and appellate levels. She focuses her practice on complex issues and projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the federal and California Endangered Species Act (ESA), and Planning and Zoning Laws. In 2021, Nicole became a co-chair for CLE International's Annual CEQA SuperConference, recognized as the state's leading CEQA legal conference. Nicole is also an Advisor to the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Section of the California Lawyers Association, which she Chaired in 2018-2019. This position places her at the forefront of the environmental law issues with which public agencies must grapple. Nicole has also been recognized as a 2021 and 2022 Southern California Super Lawyer, numerous times as a Super Lawyers "Rising Star," and as one of the Los Angeles Business Journal's "Most Influential Women Attorneys" in 2019. Additionally, Nicole frequently speaks on environmental matters at various public and private workshops, including courses and conferences sponsored by UCLA, Continuing Legal Education (CLE), the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP), and the American Planning Association (APA).
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Supreme Court move allows Jackson to take part in race case
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Friday took a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.
Jackson, who joined the court June 30 following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, had pledged during her confirmation hearing to sit out the case involving Harvard's admissions policy because she was a member of the school's board.
The Harvard dispute had been joined to a similar lawsuit involving the University of North Carolina. The court split the case in two, allowing Jackson to hear arguments and vote in the North Carolina case. Harvard is a private institution, while North Carolina is a public university.
Jackson's participation seems unlikely to make much difference in the outcome on a court with a 6-3 conservative majority that is skeptical of the role of race in education, voting and other areas.
Arguments over one of the new term´s most highly anticipated issues probably will take place in November or December, but no date has been announced yet.
Jackson was a member of Harvard's Board of Overseers from 2016 until the spring. It is made up of alumni and is one of Harvard´s two governing bodies. She is a graduate both of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
FILE - Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during an event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, April 8, 2022, celebrating the confirmation of Jackson as the first Black woman to reach the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Three other justices also got their law degrees from Harvard: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch. Roberts also was a Harvard undergraduate and Kagan was the law school dean for a time.
But none of the other justices has any current or recent role with the university.
Federal law requires all judges to recuse from cases in which their "impartiality might reasonably be questioned," including close ties to a party, a financial interest in the outcome or participation at an earlier stage of the case.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Three weeks before the most significant election of her political career, Liz Cheney was nowhere to be seen as thousands of voters gathered for a massive midsummer rodeo and cowboy festival in Wyoming’s largest city.
Instead, the three-term Republican congresswoman was 1,600 miles away in Washington presiding over a U.S. House committee comprised largely of Democrats intent on exposing former President Donald Trump’s attack on democracy during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. As the cowboy fest roared back home, Cheney railed against Trump’s failures.
“Donald Trump made a purposeful choice to violate his oath of office,” she said during Thursday’s hearing.
Dean Finnerty, a rancher from Wheatland competing in the steer wrestling competition, was not moved.
“I tell you what: I voted for Cheney when she ran last time and I won’t vote for her ever again,” Finnerty said. “I don’t know if she’s representing the conservative Americans that voted her in.”
Cheney’s unrelenting criticism of Trump from a Capitol Hill committee room represents the centerpiece of an unconventional campaign strategy that may well lead to her political demise, at least in the short term. Many Cheney allies are prepared for — if not resigned to — a loss in Wyoming’s Aug. 16 Republican primary against Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman.
But as primary day approaches, there is also a pervasive belief among Cheney’s team that her unorthodox strategy in 2022 may put her in a stronger position for the 2024 presidential contest. Cheney’s fierce anti-Trump message as vice chairman of the congressional committee investigating the insurrection has strengthened her national brand while expanding a national network of donors and Trump critics in both parties who could boost a prospective White House run.
Cheney has yet to finalize any decisions about 2024, but she has not ruled out a presidential run as a Republican or an independent.
“The single most important thing is protecting the nation from Donald Trump,” Cheney said in interview with ABC News that aired Friday. She said she would make a decision about a potential White House bid “down the road.”
Cheney’s supporters understand the political paradox she faces in Wyoming, the state where Trump scored his largest margin of victory, 43 points, less than two years ago.
“She knew that she was shooting herself in the foot politically (in Wyoming) and she was going to walk around with a limp for the rest of her life,” Landon Brown, a Wyoming state representative and Cheney ally, said of Cheney’s unwavering Trump criticism. “But I could see this blossoming into something larger.”
Cheney, the 55-year-old daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, is perhaps the best known among a small group of so-called “Never Trump” Republicans weighing presidential bids for 2024. They include term-limited Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Cheney’s only Republican colleague on the Jan. 6 commission, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who opted not to seek reelection this fall.
Trump would likely dominate a large field of presidential primary opponents should he run again, as he has said he will. But there is also a notable group of Republican voters eager to move past Trump and his continued fight to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Still, few believe that an outspoken Trump critic could ultimately prevail in a Republican presidential primary. The vast majority of Republican voters still approve of Trump.
And while her allies may be optimistic about her long-term future, Cheney would certainly like to avoid a blowout loss next month in her home state.
It won’t be easy.
Facing consistent and credible death threats, she has been forced to abandon traditional retail campaigning, trading public rallies and town halls for private events where her presence is often revealed to the public only after their conclusion, if at all.
She has essentially been excommunicated by the Wyoming Republican Party, which voted last year to censure Cheney before deciding to stop recognizing her as a Republican altogether. Local GOP offices offer yard signs for Hageman and many other Republicans on the ballot but not Cheney.
Left with few options, she has turned to Democrats for help. Her campaign website now features a link to a form allowing voters to change their party affiliation to Republican to participate in the Republican primary.
Kinzinger’s political team is helping to accelerate her crossover push.
“We need more principled leaders like Liz to ensure that those who want our democracy to fail don’t succeed,” Kinzinger told AP. “There has never been more urgency for pro-democracy voters to participate in primary elections.”
Cheney has resisted private pressure from some allies to shift away from her anti-Trump message. Many Republicans on the ballot this year who criticized Trump after Jan. 6 have since tried to sidestep the controversy by focusing on local issues in their districts, President Joe Biden or runaway inflation.
Cheney has refused to soften her message, instead leaning into Trump at the biggest moments of her campaign.
In her reelection campaign announcement video this May, she promised to “reject the lies” while not surrendering “to pressure or intimidation.” I n her closing statement at last month’s Republican primary debate, she called out “the lies of Donald Trump,” vowing, “I will never put party above my duty to the country.”
Meanwhile, Trump has made Cheney’s defeat a chief priority.
He called her a “despicable human being” on his social media site this month. And in May, Trump traveled to Wyoming’s second-largest city, Casper, to rally support for his preferred Cheney successor, conservative attorney Harriet Hageman.
As Cheney focuses her energy on the Jan. 6 commission, Hageman has barnstormed the state courting small, rural crowds in the traditional mold of Wyoming politicking. The approach is more like the one Cheney herself used to top a crowded Republican primary field to win Wyoming’s lone House seat in 2016.
Friends and foes alike have noticed her absence this year.
“I do know that Liz absolutely wants to be out across the state meeting with all our residents,” said Paul Ulrich, a former chairman of the Petroleum Association of Wyoming and a Cheney supporter. “It’s painful for her to have these security concerns. It’s disgusting that it’s come to this.”
The Capitol Police assigned Cheney a personal security detail last August, a step taken only when members of Congress are facing credible security threats.
Dean “Doc” Schroeder, a registered Democrat now planning to change his registration to vote for Cheney in the GOP primary, has been impressed by Cheney’s leadership on the Jan. 6 commission. He said it may not matter whether the congresswoman spends more time in the state given Wyoming’s overwhelming Republican majority.
“A very large proportion of that wouldn’t care if she came flying into the election on angel’s wings. They’re not going to vote for her,” said Schroeder, a retired psychologist and Frontier Days Rodeo volunteer. “So I don’t know that it has hurt her anything. And I’m a perfect example of how her behavior in Washington has helped her.”
Some Cheney allies are skeptical there are enough Democratic crossover votes to put her over the top next month.
“I wouldn’t want to put any money on this race,” said Marilyn Kite, a former state Supreme Court justice who supports Cheney. “I hope like heck she’s successful, but if she isn’t, maybe her being true to her oath truly is more important in the long run.”
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Public prosecutors have charged three individuals with the June murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the remote western reaches of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, according to a statement.
All are local riverine dwellers, and their motive was that Pereira asked Phillips to photograph them when they passed by in a boat, the statement said. The area is a hotspot for illegal fishing and poaching.
Phillips and Pereira had met with Indigenous people near the entrance of the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, which borders Peru and Colombia, and were traveling along the Itaquai River back to the city of Atalaia do Norte when they were attacked. Their disappearance generated intense international outcry and pressure for action and, with the help of local Indigenous people, authorities located their bodies hidden in the forest.
Prosecutors presented their charges Thursday, outlining that two of the men — Amarildo da Costa Oliveira and Jefferson da Silva Lima — have confessed to the crime, while witness testimony indicates Oseney da Costa de Oliveira also participated, according to the statement.
Pereira had previous confrontations with fishermen when seizing their catch and had received multiple threats. He carried a gun with him, and had left the federal Indigenous affairs agency in order to teach local Indigenous people how to patrol their land and gather geo-tagged photographic evidence of criminality.
On the day they were murdered, Pereira was transporting such evidence to authorities in Atalaia do Norte, and he was shot three times. Phillips, who was conducting research for a book entitled “How to Save the Amazon,” was killed because “only because of being with Bruno, in order to ensure impunity for the prior crime,” the prosecutors’ statement said.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The sheriff in Kansas’ most populous county says he took it for granted that local elections ran smoothly — until former President Donald Trump lost there in 2020.
Now he’s assigned detectives to investigate what he claims is election fraud, even though there has been no evidence of any widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines in 2020. Calvin Hayden in Johnson County, which covers suburban Kansas City, isn’t the only sheriff in the U.S. to try to carve out a bigger role for their office in investigating elections.
Promoters of baseless conspiracy theories that the last presidential election was stolen from Trump are pushing a dubious theory that county sheriffs can access voting machines and intervene in how elections are run — and also have virtually unchecked power in their counties.
Voting-rights advocates and election experts said any attempts by law enforcement to interfere in elections would be alarming and an extension of the threat posed by the continued circulation of Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
“What we have seen time and again is that those who support the ‘Big Lie’ find conduits to groups of people who they think can help perpetuate this conspiracy theory and erode confidence in elections and potentially cast doubt on them going forward,” said David Levine, a former election official who is now a fellow with the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a nonpartisan institute with staff in Washington and Brussels whose mission involves combatting efforts to undermine democratic institutions.
To be sure, law enforcement can play an important role in elections by sharing intelligence, protecting election workers and equipment, and investigating potential election crimes. But that is typically done after election administrators request the help.
Hayden appeared at the “FreedomFest” in Las Vegas earlier this month, held by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, although his office said he is not a member of the group.
Onstage with him were sheriffs Dar Leaf of Barry County in southwest Michigan and Chris Schmaling of Racine County in Wisconsin, south of Milwaukee. Both say they are investigating election fraud claims, and both accuse state officials of violating election laws.
“We’ve been educating ourselves about elections,” Hayden told the gathering. “I’ve sent my detectives through — I’ve got a cyber guy. I sent him through to start evaluating what’s going on with the machines.”
Hayden, a Republican, did not elaborate and declined to be interviewed this week, citing what he said was his ongoing investigation. State and local election officials in Kansas said his office has not gained access to voting machines, and other Johnson County officials said there are no indications of any problems with the 2020 elections there.
The constitutional sheriffs’ group declares on its website that a sheriff’s power in a county is greater than that of any other official and “even supersedes the powers of the President.” Leaf filed a lawsuit in June against Michigan’s attorney general and secretary of state, accusing them of trying to stifle his investigation. He said a sheriff “has no superiors in his county.”
The “constitutional sheriffs” movement has gained visibility in recent years, as some sheriffs — including Hayden — resisted enforcing mask or vaccination requirements during the coronavirus pandemic.
“All of a sudden, it’s like the lights went on. It’s the sheriffs,” said Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of the election-conspiracy group True the Vote, speaking as part of a panel at the recent constitutional sheriffs gathering in Las Vegas. “That’s who can do these investigations. That’s who we can trust.”
It’s not clear how many sheriffs are part of the movement, though the national group’s founder, Richard Mack, said last year that about 300 of the nation’s 3,000 sheriffs were members, according to The Washington Post. Mack did not respond this week to telephone and email requests for an interview.
“It’s like a lot of these theories — it legally has no basis whatsoever,” said Stephen McAllister, the top federal prosecutor for Kansas during most of the Trump administration. “They are subject to state law. They are certainly subject to federal law. They are not sort of supreme little kings within their counties, whether they think so or not.”
Hayden said in a public statement that since the fall of 2021, he has received more than 200 tips alleging fraud in local elections. He said his department has a legal obligation to investigate “any criminal claim.”
But a memo from Peg Trent, Johnson County’s chief legal counsel, suggested Hayden went further in a July 5 meeting with her and county election officials.
Trent said Hayden questioned the use of ballot drop boxes at libraries, called for limiting the hours they would be available and offered to have his staff pick up the ballots. She said his staff also asked to have a deputy in the room as ballots are counted.
“As we discussed, my concern is that these requests give the appearance that the Sheriff’s office is attempting to interfere with an election,” she wrote in the July 7 memo, sent to Hayden, county commissioners and the county manager.
Hayden issued a statement that he would “whole-heartedly disagree” with her account of the meeting.
There is no evidence to support Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020 or to suggest widespread fraud or tampering with voting machines or ballot drop boxes. Dozens of legal claims made by Trump and his allies after the election were rejected by judges, including ones appointed by Trump.
“With the exception of a tiny handful of individual cases of voter fraud around the country, there is absolutely no reason to suspect that a crime was committed in 2020 with regard to the election,” said David Becker, a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney and election law expert who now leads the Center for Election Innovation and Research.
But false claims have sowed doubt among many Republican voters, triggered death threats to election officials and led to a host of new voting restrictions in GOP-controlled states. Trump allies have sought access to voting equipment and turned the normally routine process of certifying election results contentious.
“The danger of anyone embracing a conspiracy theory is the loss of confidence in election results,” said Chris Harvey, the former state elections director in Georgia. “It’s an added danger if it’s law enforcement. Their job is to enforce laws and maintain order. If they are seen as not having confidence in what’s going on, it’s just going to further trickle down into society.”
Harvey is part of a new group bringing together election officials and law enforcement. The Committee for Safe and Secure Elections is comprised of 32 current and former election and law enforcement officials, with a goal of build stronger relationships and providing training.
Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab, the state’s top election official, said Hayden has not contacted his office as part of his investigation. Schwab has repeatedly said he is confident that state elections ran well in 2020.
“I think overwhelmingly people trust the election system,” he said.
Hayden said during the Las Vegas gathering that his concerns about election fraud were piqued after Democrat Joe Biden carried Johnson County in the 2020 presidential election because the county had consistently “voted Republican” for more than a century. But that argument — made by election conspiracy promoters — ignores that Democrats have carried Johnson County multiple times in governor’s races during that time, including in Laura Kelly’s winning campaign in 2018.
Republicans maintain their traditional advantage in voter registration there, but Johnson County is more Democratic than it was 30 years ago.
“Johnson County going for Biden — well, that’s not an anomaly,” said Davis Hammet, leader of the Kansas voting-rights group Loud Light. “That happened in suburban counties all across the country.”
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Cassidy reported from Atlanta. Associated Press writer Ali Swenson in New York also contributed.
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A Port Allen High School senior died in a plane crash along with his mother and sister, Port Allen High School said Friday.
Ian Kirby, 17, was among four people who died when Boulder County Sheriff's officials in Colorado said a Cessna P337 crashed near Lefthand Canyon west of the city of Boulder last Sunday, media reports from Colorado said.
Kirby's sister Amanda Kirby, 13, and mom Sandra Kirby, 48, died in the crash along with an unnamed pilot, they reported.
Kirby and his relatives were 10 minutes into a sightseeing plane trip that began at the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport when the plane crashed and caught fire, according to a CBS News report.
In the report, the NTSB said the plane was being operated by Bluebird Aviation, though the pilot has yet to be identified.
Joe Kirby, the father of Ian and Amanda Kirby, spoke to CBS News and told them he was getting "very little sleep".
"Very good kids," Kirby told CBS News. "Lovable, go out of their way to help anybody as much as they can."
The Federal Aviation Administration and NTSB are investigating the crash.
"Ian was a wonderful, beloved Pel," Port Allen High School wrote in a Facebook statement regarding the incident. "May they all rest in peace." | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_a04f0a00-09e5-11ed-94b7-e3b4a508da79.html | 2022-07-22T20:48:28Z | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_a04f0a00-09e5-11ed-94b7-e3b4a508da79.html | true |
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — More than 50 million people across the East African region are expected to face acute food insecurity this year, a regional bloc said Friday, warning that some 300,000 in Somalia and South Sudan are projected to be under full-blown famine conditions.
The assessment by Intergovernmental Authority on Development, or IGAD, is one of the most dire yet as United Nations agencies, humanitarian groups and others continue to raise alarm over the region’s food crisis that many say has been largely neglected as the international community focuses on the war in Ukraine.
That assessment applies to seven member states of IGAD, from Djibouti to Uganda.
Samantha Power, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, is traveling in East Africa to spotlight the hunger crisis in the region.
In Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Friday, Power announced at least $255 million in drought-related humanitarian and development support to Kenya. She is expected to visit Ethiopia and Somalia, where some communities have suffered four consecutive failed rainy seasons.
Power earlier in the week spoke of the need to prevent the global food crisis from becoming a catastrophe, announcing $1.2 billion in funding that includes immediate food assistance for people in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya.
In addition to immediate humanitarian aid, the international community must sustain investment in global agriculture and undertake concerted diplomacy “so that we mobilize more resources from donors, avoid export restrictions that can exacerbate the crisis, and lessen the burden on poor countries,” Power said in a speech Monday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Aid groups and other watchdogs have been calling for more funds to be devoted to East Africa after the war in Ukraine grabbed the world’s attention and money.
Three million people face “emergency and catastrophic levels of hunger, risking death,” the International Rescue Committee said in a statement Tuesday, noting that “people have already started dying from starvation and the window to prevent mass deaths is rapidly closing.”
Even if the new U.S. funding is fulfilled, “the humanitarian response plan for the region would be funded at 40% of the assessed need,” the group warned. “After just over three months, the $1.9 billion appeal for the humanitarian response in Ukraine was 85% funded — a demonstration of the capacity for resource mobilization when the political will exists.”
Power has criticized China for allegedly contributing just $3 million to the U.N. World Food Program this year, while the U.S. has given $3.9 billion this financial year. China and other nations “must go above and beyond as we work to prevent famine,” she said on Twitter.
Somalia, a country that continues to grapple with armed conflict wrought by an Islamic extremist insurgency, is seen as particularly vulnerable. A weak humanitarian response to the 2010-12 drought was in part to blame as a quarter-million people died during famine conditions. Half of them were children.
Somalis walk for days through parched landscapes to places like Mogadishu, the capital, in search of aid but find that there is little or nothing.
The number of people going hungry in Somalia due to drought has nearly doubled since the start of the year, according to the IRC, which saw a 265% increase in admissions for children under 5 with severe malnutrition at just one clinic in Mogadishu between April and May.
There is a risk of famine in eight areas of Somalia through September “in the event of widespread crop and livestock production failures, spiraling food costs, and in the absence of scaled-up humanitarian assistance,” the assessment by IGAD said.
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A case of polio has been detected in New York, the first instance of the virus in almost a decade.
The case was confirmed in a resident of Rockland County, about 36 miles north of New York City, the first case since 2013, according to the state and county health departments.
The patient is no longer considered contagious, the AP reports, but has developed paralysis. Tests run by the state health department's lab, and confirmed by the CDC, showed that the patient had previously received an oral polio vaccine, which are no longer administered in the U.S.
Inactivated vaccines — ones that use dead germs from the disease — have been the only polio vaccines authorized in the U.S. since 2000. This could mean the patient picked up the strain in a country where oral polio vaccines are still given. According to the CDC, no cases of polio have originated in the United States since 1979.
The New York health departments and the CDC recommend that those unvaccinated against polio receive the vaccine.
"Vaccines have protected our health against old and new viruses for decades," New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said. "The fact is, the urgency of safe and effective vaccines has always been here, and we need New Yorkers to protect themselves against completely preventable viruses like polio."
The polio vaccine was introduced in 1955, and due to a high inoculation rate, cases decreased significantly in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Only 175 cases were reported worldwide in 2019, according to the World Health Organization.
The highly infectious virus can cause debilitating damage to the spine and muscles, and is typically spread orally, through fecal matter or saliva. About 72% of people will not have visible symptoms, while about 25% of people will experience flu-like symptoms, such as nausea, fever and tiredness, the CDC said.
In rare cases the infected experience more severe and life-threatening symptoms, such as paralysis (0.5%) or meningitis (4%), a spinal infection, according to the CDC.
Symptoms can take up to 30 days to appear in those infected, and can still be spread during that time, the New York State Health Department said.
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Alex Casebeer of Capitol Auto Group Named One of Automotive News’ 40 Under 40
Alex Casebeer of Capitol Subaru, is one of Automotive News’ 40 Under 40. This annual program honors 40 high achievers at new car dealerships under 40 years old.
Alex’s work builds on a family legacy of leadership whose demonstrated results are community improvement”
SALEM, OR, USA, July 22, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Alex Casebeer of Capitol Subaru, part of Capitol Auto Group, is one of Automotive News’ 40 Under 40. This annual program honors 40 high achievers at new car dealerships under 40 years old.— Jim Bauer, Salem Health Foundation
Casebeer is a 4th generation dealer at Salem, Oregon’s Capitol Auto Group. The company’s campus comprises Toyota, Chevrolet/Cadillac, a new Subaru dealership and a used car center. Capitol and its team are widely recognized as strong community leaders, receiving multiple recognitions for environmentally friendly practices, an excellent workplace, and involvement in nonprofits. The company recently contributed a historic $340,000 donation to the United Way from employee donations.
Alex Casebeer is actively involved in his community, serving on the Travel Salem Board, Salem Leadership Foundation, Salem Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Boys and Girls Club. He currently is chair of the Salem Health Foundation Board of Directors. Jim Bauer, the foundation’s chief development officer, said, “Alex puts in the time and the energy to be a catalyst for positive change in Salem. As Chair of our Salem Health Foundation Board, Alex has been a champion of improving access to healthcare for our area's most vulnerable citizens. Alex’s work builds on a family legacy of leadership whose demonstrated results are community improvement.”
“The 40 Under 40 program honors dealership employees who display exceptional leadership skills and are top performers,” said Amy Wilson, retail editor of Automotive News. “The men and women on our 11th annual list have demonstrated significant business achievements, and their dealership groups are all the stronger for it.”
Automotive News received nominations from across the U.S. and identified outstanding performers in a large field of high-quality talent at dealerships. This year’s list represents a diverse group of honorees with a broad range of titles and backgrounds. The national publication profiled these bright stars in the July 11, 2022, issue of Automotive News, the leading news source for the global automotive industry.
For complete information about Automotive News’ 40 Under 40, visit www.autonews.com/40under40. Ally, a leading digital financial services company, is the exclusive sponsor of this recognition program.
About Capitol Auto Group: Capitol Auto Group has served the greater Salem area for over 90 years. They feature three dealerships in Salem: Toyota, 783 Auto Group Ave. NE; Subaru, 920 Auto Group AV; and Chevrolet/Cadillac, 2855 Maple Av NE. They also have Capitol Auto Used Car Center, 3235 Cherry Ave. NE; and Capitol Collision Center 2815 Silverton Rd NE. 2021 marked Capitol Toyota’s 50th year in business. Automotive News recognized the company and its individual dealerships multiple times as one of the “Top 100 Companies to Work For” in North America. www.CapitolAuto.com 1-800-888-1391.
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While I haven’t spent a lot of time in Killeen, Texas, if I owned a piece of property like this one, I’m not sure if I would ever leave the house. This beautiful home is top notch and comes with some amazing views but it also comes with the highest list price for any home in Killeen coming in at $5,995,000.
WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A young mom in Waco will be disabled for the rest of her life following a trail ride party over the weekend which ended in tragedy. Helena Evans, 20, says she was ran over and dragged for miles during a trail ride event in Centerville Saturday, causing her leg to have to be amputated.
Waco (FOX 44) — The McLennan County Grand jury has indicted Ardra Robinson on a murder charge for the death of John Wesley Perry, III. Police say Robinson shot Perry on May 17th, in the parking lot of Octapharma Plasma. It was the 13th murder of the year. Investigators...
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The city of Waco and Waco–McLennan County Office of Emergency Management have opened cooling centers through the weekend to assist local residents with relief from the heat. Cold bottles of water and chairs will be provided. On Friday, a cooling center will be open from noon to 7 p.m. at the city of Waco Multipurpose Facility, 1020 Elm Ave.
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Growing concerns over mass shootings are leading Waco Police to offer free training next week to the public on how to respond to such a scenario. Waco police officers certified as instructors will present Citizens Response to Active Shooter Events training in English and Spanish on Tuesday, July 26, and Saturday, July 30 in McLennan Hall at the Waco Convention Center.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Turns out, Jan. 6 was more than just the day when a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol.
It was the culmination, but also the start, of an enduring challenge for American democracy.
The House committee investigating Jan. 6, 2021 has shown how the deadly Capitol attack was sparked months earlier on Election Night 2020, when the incumbent president, Donald Trump, refused to admit he was trailing Joe Biden, and instead spewed false claims of voter fraud and declared himself the winner.
The defeated president spent the next eight weeks orchestrating an unprecedented attempt to overturn the election results and summoned supporters to Washington on Jan. 6 to finish the job.
And even after the blood, mayhem and deaths at the Capitol, Trump still refused on Jan. 7 to say the words that all those around him knew needed to be said: the presidential election was over.
The Jan. 6 committee cannot charge anyone with crimes, but it has produced a public record for history, one that's still being written. It is showing how the insurrection at the Capitol is testing the resiliency of the nation’s democracy.
As Trump contemplates another White House run, he has denounced the proceedings as “so many lies and misrepresentations.”
Rep. Liz Cheney, a fellow Republican who is vice chair of the panel, said the case against her party's president is being made not by Trump's political enemies, but rather his own friends, campaign officials, people who worked for him and his own family.
“They have come forward and they have told the American people the truth,” Cheney said.
Here’s what we know from eight summer hearings of the House Jan. 6 committee.
‘TEAM NORMAL’ WARNS TRUMP NOT TO CLAIM ELECTION VICTORY
Election Night did not look good for incumbent Trump, as battleground states he had won four years earlier began to fall to Biden.
Campaign manager Bill Stepien testified this summer that it was no time to declare victory. But “Team Normal,” as some of Trump's more experienced political aides called themselves, was no match for Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer who encouraged Trump to fight.
“This is a fraud on the American public,” Trump said in an election night speech. “Frankly, we did win this election.”
For the next eight weeks Trump battled in court challenging the election results. When one judge after another rejected or declined to take up Trump's claims of voter fraud, the defeated president latched on to another plan, from a conservative law professor John Eastman, to challenge the results when Congress met to certify the election, scheduled for Jan. 6.
Trump met privately with members of Congress who would reject the election results from their states, and encouraged hundreds of electors to send Congress his name as the winner, rather than Biden.
But “over and over again,” Cheney said, the president was told there was no voter fraud that could have tipped the election.
“This is bull—-,” former Attorney General Bill Barr testified that he told the president.
When told of Barr's interview to an AP reporter declaring there was no fraud, the president threw his lunch in the Oval Office dining room. “There was ketchup dripping down the wall,” testified former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who helped the president's valet mop it up.
'WE’RE GOING TO WALK DOWN TO THE CAPITOL'
The committee revealed new evidence that the attack on the Capitol was not a spontaneous event but one set in motion by the president's actions.
Summoning supporters to Washington for a “big” rally Jan. 6, Trump spoke before the crowd at the Ellipse outside the White House and sent them marching to the Capitol.
“We're going to walk down — and I'll be there with you,” Trump told the crowd. “We're going to walk down to the Capitol.”
The committee revealed in text messages from rally organizer Kylie Kremer that there were plans for a second stage to be set up outside the Capitol, which sits across from the Supreme Court.
Alarmed, White House counsel Pat Cipollone scrambled to prevent Trump from going to the Capitol, desperately worried that if he did, it would be seen as the president interfering with the U.S. election.
“We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen,” Hutchinson recalled Cipollone telling her.
After Trump left the rally stage, he had a confrontation with the security agent driving the presidential SUV, demanding to be taken to the Capitol, Hutchinson said. It's an account that the Secret Service denies. But the service has not publicly testified about it as Hutchinson has under oath.
Instead, the security detail drove Trump back to the White House, where an aide told him about the riot at the Capitol.
“Within 15 minutes of leaving the stage, President Trump knew that the Capitol was besieged and under attack,” Cheney said.
And then Trump went into the Oval Office dining room and for the next three hours refused to call off the mob, watching it all on TV.
“You know, Commander in Chief, you got an assault going on on the Capitol of the United States of America. And there’s nothing? No call? Nothing? Zero?” testified Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
“For hours, Donald Trump chose not to answer the pleas from Congress, from his own party, and from all across our nation to do what his oath required," Cheney said. "He refused to defend our nation and our Constitution.”
THE ATTACK: ‘IT WAS CARNAGE, IT WAS CHAOS’
From the opening hearing, the Jan. 6 committee showed that the attack on the Capitol was not some visit by tourists, as some Trump allies have since maintained, but a gruesome, grisly, deadly fight.
U.S. Capitol Police officer Carolyn Edwards testified about the “war scene” as she stood on the Capitol's West Front trying to push back the mob — some armed with shields, flag poles, stun guns, bear spray, and guns.
“It was carnage, it was chaos," she said. "I was slipping in people's blood.”
The panel showed how extremist Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, whose leaders now face rare sedition charges, had been planning for Jan. 6 for weeks, including a stunning parking garage meeting the night before filmed by a documentarian who testified before the committee.
Among the more than 100 officers injured that day some have sat in the front row through the hearings.
Nine people died in the attack and its aftermath, including a Trump supporter shot by police.
More than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Over 330 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors. Of the more than 200 defendants to be sentenced, approximately 100 received terms of imprisonment.
UNSUNG HEROES, ENDURING QUESTIONS FOR DEMOCRACY
Throughout the six weeks of public hearings, the Jan. 6 has shown just how fragile is the U.S. hold on democracy.
Lower-level Republican officials, including Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger who refused Trump's demands to “find 11,740 votes" or Arizona Speaker Rusty Bowers who rejected the scheme for an alternative slate of electors from his state, endured threats as they stood up the president's pressure.
Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman recounted their fear, sadness and anger over a president who publicly and falsely accused them of voter fraud, leaving the mother and daughter still afraid to live their lives.
Vice President Mike Pence withstood the howls of rioters chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” as he refused Trump's demands to reject the electors. Pence also refused to leave the Capitol. Instead, he called the Pentagon to bring in the National Guard to secure the building — so Congress could resume certifying the election.
Pence “did not want to take any chance that the world would see the Vice President of the United States fleeing the United States Capitol," his top counsel Greg Jacob testified. "He was determined that we would complete the work that we had set out to do that day.”
The day after the election, Trump was convinced by his team to deliver an address to the nation, but he would not stick to the script.
“I don’t want to say the election’s over,” Trump said during outtakes of a video address shown by the committee. His daughter, Ivanka Trump, can be heard off camera, encouraging him to try again.
Chairman Bennie Thompson has said the committee will continue its work, with more hearings in September, as it prepares its reports.
“January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup,” said Thompson, D-Miss. “The violence was no accident. It represents seeing Trump’s last stand, most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power.”
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LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Environmental and land use law firm The Sohagi Law Group announced that Partners Nicole Hoeksma Gordon and R. Tyson Sohagi have been recognized as 'Legal Visionaries' by the Los Angeles Times in its second annual Business of Law magazine. The special supplement focuses on trends and updates in the legal profession and spotlights attorneys that have "exhibited noteworthy achievements" over the last two years. Attorneys are selected based on their average success rate, settlements and verdicts won in the last three years, leadership positions within their firm and community and board affiliations and recognitions, according to the publication.
"Tyson and Nicole are both incredibly talented attorneys and have consistently proven their ability to provide the firm's clients with the highest degree of strategy and service," says Managing Partner Margaret Sohagi. "We feel honored to have them apart of this esteemed list of accomplished lawyers."
Tyson Sohagi's practice focuses upon environmental law, land use and planning law, the Coastal Act, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Public Trust Doctrine, and Election Law. Sohagi received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley that assists with SLG's review of issues involving complex legal and technical issues. He advises public clients on complex matters such as infrastructure projects (transmission lines, port facilities, airport facilities, intermodal and on-dock railroad facilities, utility plants), mass transit fees, general plans, and specific plans, specific development proposals, and other land use issues. Many of his projects have involved complicated issues pertaining to historic resources, water supply, seawater intrusion, groundwater, water quality, stormwater, wastewater, cultural resources, air quality, greenhouse gases, hazardous materials, noise, and geology. Sohagi also has substantial experience related to transportation analysis, including operational analysis involving airports (including internal airport circulation), intermodal railways facilities, development projects, construction work, county, and city-wide programmatic analysis, as well as non-vehicular analysis, including multi-modal analysis utilizing new Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) metrics.
Nicole advises public agencies on complex environmental and land use matters at the administrative, trial, and appellate levels. She focuses her practice on complex issues and projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the federal and California Endangered Species Act (ESA), and Planning and Zoning Laws. In 2021, Nicole became a co-chair for CLE International's Annual CEQA SuperConference, recognized as the state's leading CEQA legal conference. Nicole is also an Advisor to the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Section of the California Lawyers Association, which she Chaired in 2018-2019. This position places her at the forefront of the environmental law issues with which public agencies must grapple. Nicole has also been recognized as a 2021 and 2022 Southern California Super Lawyer, numerous times as a Super Lawyers "Rising Star," and as one of the Los Angeles Business Journal's "Most Influential Women Attorneys" in 2019. Additionally, Nicole frequently speaks on environmental matters at various public and private workshops, including courses and conferences sponsored by UCLA, Continuing Legal Education (CLE), the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP), and the American Planning Association (APA).
About The Sohagi Law Group
The Sohagi Law Group handles complex transactional and litigation matters for public agencies, including cities, counties, townships, state agencies, special districts, commissions and authorities. Its attorneys draw upon their extensive expertise in all areas of environmental and land use law to advise clients navigate existing laws and regulations and keep them up to date on emerging environmental issues such as climate change and greenhouse gas regulation.
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Filming has been paused on the Justified revival following a shooting near the Chicago set.
A spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department confirms there was a car shooting near the Justified: Primeval City set on July 20. The incident took place in the Douglas Park area and no one involved in the production, including star Timothy Olyphant, who is set to reprise his role as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in the series, was injured, according to Deadline.
E! News reached out to FX for comment and didn't hear back.
According to the Chicago Police Department, a 19-year-old passenger was shot in the leg during the shooting, which involved two vehicles, but is in stable condition.
This shooting comes just days after a Law & Order: Organized Crime parking attendant, 31-year-old Johnny Pizarro, was shot and killed on the Brooklyn set while saving parking spots for the production. Police have since launched an investigation into the crime and no arrests have been made.
Justified: Primeval City was ordered to series in January, seven years after the FX show ended. This spin-off will see Olyphant reprise his role as U.S. Marshal Givens, who left Kentucky in the final season.
Since then, Givens has relocated to Miami, Fla. but, according to the series description, "a chance encounter on a Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook), a.k.a. The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent, sociopathic desperado who's already slipped through the fingers of Detroit's finest once and aims to do so again."
Aunjanue Ellis, Adelaide Clemens, Vondie Curtis Hall and Marin Ireland round out the cast.
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UPDATE: Forward spread stopped for Keswick fire; burn victim reported
10:53 a.m. UPDATE
Cal Fire has requested a medic unit for an adult with burn injuries in the Laurie Ann Lane area.
Paramedics report the man has mostly first-degree burns on his upper arms and knees after being overcome by the wildland fire.
10:43 a.m. UPDATE
Cal Fire says the forward spread of the Stacie Fire has been stopped.
ORIGINAL STORY
Firefighters are at a grass fire that was reported Friday about 10:30 a.m. at the end of Stacie Way near Laurie Ann Lane in the Keswick area.
First reports said the fire was about a half-acre with a slow rate of spread, according to dispatch reports from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The fire was burning grass and dead and down brush and timber.
Photos from Alert Wildfire show the fire sending up smoke near Keswick Dam.
An air tanker was en route along with water tenders.
Check back for updates.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jay Carney, the top policy and communications executive at Amazon and one-time White House spokesman, has been named the head of policy at Airbnb, marking another high-profile departure for Amazon as it faces a shifting consumer landscape and heightened regulatory scrutiny.
Carney, who served as the press secretary for President Barack Obama, will join Airbnb's executive team and work with co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, the San Francisco-based home-sharing company said in a Friday blog post.
“Jay has worked at the highest levels of both government and technology, serving as a strategic counselor to the President, and at one of the largest tech companies in the world,” Chesky said in the post.
Carney will join Airbnb in September in Washington, D.C.
In an email sent Friday to the company's senior leadership team, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy thanked Carney for “his many significant accomplishments,” including helping the company “build a strong set of capabilities in Public Policy and PR."
Seattle-based Amazon has seen string of departures since Jassy, who previously ran the company's cloud-computing unit AWS, succeeded founder Jeff Bezos as CEO last summer. At least half of Jassy's tenure has been marked by headaches over the glut of warehouses the company acquired during the pandemic. He's pledged to bring profitability back to the company and is reported to have a more hands-on approach to the role.
This month, Dave Clark, the chief executive of Amazon’s consumer business who oversaw a mass expansion of Amazon’s logistics footprint, left the company after 23 years. Clark, who will join the logistics startup Flexport in September, was replaced by Doug Herrington, another executive who helped launch Amazon Fresh in 2017. Two of the company's most senior Black leaders, Alicia Boler Davis and David Bozeman, also left last month, leaving Amazon's elite senior leadership group, or “S-team," without any Black members.
Carney started with Amazon seven years ago and ran the company’s global corporate affairs organization, reporting directly to the CEO. He was White House press secretary from 2011 to 2014 after serving as director of communications for then Vice President Joe Biden. At Amazon, he oversaw policy and public relations, focusing on the company's relationship with lawmakers and the White House. In the role, he took a more combative posture, sometimes taking on members of the media and lawmakers critical of the company.
“Everything about my time at Amazon has exceeded my expectations, and I will forever be grateful to my colleagues in GCA, on Steam and across the businesses for their guidance, support and friendship over the years," Carney wrote to his team Friday in an email that was obtained by The Associated Press.
His departure comes amid increasing scrutiny on Amazon from Washington. Antitrust regulators at the Federal Trade Commission have been investigating Amazon’s business practices. The agency has reviewed Amazon's recently completed $8.5 billion buyout of Hollywood studio MGM and retains the discretion to challenge it.
On Thursday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who heads the Senate Judiciary antitrust panel, urged the FTC to investigate Amazon’s newly announced planned $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical, raising concern over the retail giant’s past conduct and the deal’s potential implications for consumers’ health data.
Amazon’s e-commerce empire is estimated to control 50% to 70% of online market sales. Some independent merchants who sell products on Amazon.com have complained about the company’s practices, such as contract provisions said to prevent sellers from offering their products at lower prices or on better terms on any other online platform, including their own websites.
In its defense, Amazon has said that sellers set their own prices for the products they offer on its platform.
Landmark legislative proposals pending in Congress have raised the issue of a possible forced spinoff of Amazon’s private-label products that compete with vendors on the platform. The legislation has cleared key committees in both houses of Congress but has languished for months as prospects for votes by the full Senate or House have dimmed. For its part, Amazon has pushed back on the bill.
Jassy said in the email to the company's leadership the search for Carney's replacement will begin immediately.
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The East Bay public health system has spent decades nurturing a pipeline of diverse talent from the local community.
OAKLAND, Calif., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A cohort of Alameda Health System's (AHS) HealthPATH interns will graduate next week, ending their six-week immersion in the health care sector under the mentorship of clinicians, administrators, and staff at Highland Hospital in Oakland. Every year, HealthPATH programs provide internships and work-based learning experiences to more than 300 middle school to college students from the Bay Area communities most affected by health inequities.
"HealthPATH is unique in that it offers opportunities to students who don't often have access to mentorship from health care leaders," said James Jackson, CEO of Alameda Health System. "AHS is making this significant kind of investment in our young people. We're increasing diversity in health care and nurturing a workforce pipeline directly from the community we serve."
HealthPATH is just one of the AHS initiatives intended to train health care providers who reflect the diversity of Alameda, a minority-majority county in the East Bay that is among the most ethnically diverse regions in the country. Dr. Berenice Perez, M.D. and Dr. Jocelyn Freeman Garrick, M.D., M.S. have been leading an effort to elevate physician leaders of color in Highland Hospital's Emergency Department for nearly two decades.
Their efforts are paying off. This month, in an entirely unplanned first at AHS, a team of Black ED residents switched shifts with a second team of all Black residents. The historic moment happened on July 10, 2022. Attending Physician Evan Rusoja, M.D., Ph.D., gathered physicians for the morning turnover of patients from the night team to the day team. He paused the usual process to commemorate the significance of the moment.
"Their perseverance and leadership have played a major role in caring for our community during this time of unprecedented health and social crisis," Dr. Rusoja said.
Highland has been home to many distinguished chief residents and physician leaders of color over the years, but July 10 marks a watershed moment worth celebrating – and a stark contrast to the decades when physician leadership was often 100% white.
"The Department of Emergency Medicine has a long history of leadership within our field and community," said Dr. Rusoja. "Our residents are not only some of the best physicians in the country, they're also some of the most dedicated to centering the voices and experiences of our patients. In a community renowned for Black-led social change, it is a privilege to work with a provider group at the intersection of such rich heritage and professional excellence."
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM (AHS) is a leading public health care provider dedicated to caring, healing, teaching and serving all. AHS is a haven for the most vulnerable among us and an advocate for equitable, compassionate, and culturally sensitive care regardless of social and financial barriers. AHS is a vanguard of medical excellence, with a teaching hospital that draws the nation's best medical students. As one of Alameda County's 15 largest employers, AHS is a major economic power providing more than 5,100 jobs and contributing nearly $560 million annually in salaries, wages and benefits. AHS is also home to more than 760 physicians across the nine facilities within the health system. Since 1864, AHS has served the East Bay's health care needs. For more information, visit AlamedaHealthSystem.org.
Eleanor Ajala
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Alameda Health System
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eajala@alamedahealthsystem.org
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Exeter University class of 2020 graduate at last
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Exeter University students who finished their studies in 2020 have finally been able to mark their graduation.
Lockdown restrictions in the coronavirus pandemic put a stop to graduation ceremonies.
The pandemic also meant students could not go to lectures in person and did much of their learning online.
But Exeter's Penryn campus in Cornwall made up for lost time, seeing thousands of students who missed out officially graduate at Truro Cathedral.
Graduate Hope Juster-Horfield said: "This week there's been over 2,000 students down here in Cornwall going through their graduation and the ceremony.
"It just feels really special to see three generations of graduates coming together at the same time."
Arthur Greenhalf said: "Coming down to Truro for the graduation makes me really happy.
"It's something I've always wanted to do."
Portia Riding said: "It's been a very long time coming and I didn't think it was actually going to happen, but it's been worth the wait."
- 7 August 2020 | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-62273264 | 2022-07-22T21:04:41Z | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-62273264 | true |
TO: ALL PERSONS AND ENTITIES THAT HELD CARDINAL HEALTH, INC. COMMON STOCK AS OF THE CLOSE OF TRADING ON MAY 25, 2022 AND THAT CONTINUE TO HOLD CARDINAL HEALTH COMMON STOCK AS OF THE CLOSE OF TRADING ON OCTOBER 4, 2022.
PLEASE READ THIS SUMMARY NOTICE CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY.
DUBLIN, Ohio, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Court authorized this Summary Notice. This Summary Notice relates to a proposed settlement (the "Settlement") of a stockholder derivative action: In re Cardinal Health, Inc. Derivative Litig., Case No. 2:19-cv-2491 (S.D. Ohio) (the "Action"). If the Court approves the Settlement, you will be forever barred from contesting the fairness, adequacy, and reasonableness of the Settlement and from pursuing the Released Claims.
The terms and conditions of the Settlement are set out in a Stipulation and Agreement of Compromise, Settlement, and Release, dated May 25, 2022 (the "Stipulation"). All capitalized terms used in this Summary Notice that are not otherwise defined herein have the meanings provided in the Stipulation and/or Notice.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Stipulation, the Settlement will provide Cardinal Health with a gross payment of $124 million, less any Fee and Expense Award awarded by the Court to Plaintiffs' Counsel. A more detailed description of the Action and the Settlement are set forth in the Stipulation as well as the full Notice to Cardinal Health, Inc. Stockholders of Proposed Settlement of Stockholder Derivative Action, Settlement Hearing, and Right to Appear (the "Notice"), both of which are publicly available for review on Cardinal Health's investor relations website at ir.cardinalhealth.com.
The Court will hold a Settlement Hearing at 2 p.m. on October 4, 2022, either in person at the Joseph P. Kinneary U.S. Courthouse, Room 167, 85 Marconi Boulevard, Columbus, Ohio 43215, or by telephone or video conference, to consider whether the Judgment, substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Stipulation, should be entered: (i) approving the terms and conditions of the Settlement as fair, reasonable, and adequate and in the best interests of Cardinal Health and its stockholders, (ii) dismissing the Action with prejudice pursuant to the terms of the Stipulation, (iii) ruling on the application by Plaintiffs' Counsel for the Fee and Expense Award, and (iv) ruling on Plaintiffs' application for service awards.
If you owned Cardinal Health stock (NYSE: CAH) as of the close of trading on May 25, 2022 and continue to hold Cardinal Health common stock as of the date of the Settlement Hearing, you may object to the Settlement, including Plaintiffs' Counsel's application for the Fee and Expense Award and service awards and appear at the Settlement Hearing to show cause why the Settlement, Judgment, or the applications for a Fee and Expense Award and service awards should not be approved and entered. Any such objections must be filed with the Court and served on counsel for the Parties no later than September 13, 2022 in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Notice.
PLEASE NOTE: Because the Settlement involves the resolution of a stockholder derivative action, which was brought on behalf of and for the benefit of the Company, the benefits from the Settlement will go to Cardinal Health. Individual Cardinal Health stockholders will not receive any direct payment from the Settlement. Accordingly, there is no proof of claim form for stockholders to submit in connection with this Settlement.
Stockholders are not required to take any action in response to this Summary Notice.
Please visit the Investor Relations section of Cardinal Health's website to read the full Notice and Stipulation for more information. You may also email questions to Plaintiffs' Counsel: Justin Reliford at jreliford@ktmc.com or Jennifer Sarnelli at jsarnelli@gardylaw.com. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT WITH QUESTIONS.
By Order of the Court
Contacts
Media: Erich Timmerman, erich.timmerman@cardinalhealth.com and (614) 757-8231
Investors: Kevin Moran, kevin.moran@cardinalhealth.com and (614) 757-7942.
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GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — Keystone RV plans to close two of its northern Indiana plants this fall, costing more than 300 workers their jobs.
The company, which makes travel trailers, campers and other vehicles, said in a notice filed with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development that it will close two Goshen plants, known as Plant 41 and Plant 705, effective Sept.23.
Keystone RV President and CEO Jeff Runels said up to 334 employees may lose their jobs but “a small number of employees may be retained to support other operations or production facilities.”
In a letter to employees, the company told workers that the plant closures are expected to be permanent.
Goshen Mayor Stutsman said in a statement that city officials are “always concerned when people face job loss in our community."
“We are working with business and industry leaders to better understand what is happening and see what may come in the future," he added.
Goshen, which is the Elkhart County seat, is located about 150 miles (241.4 kilometers) north of Indianapolis. | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Keystone-RV-closing-2-Indiana-plants-330-will-17323082.php | 2022-07-22T21:06:07Z | https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Keystone-RV-closing-2-Indiana-plants-330-will-17323082.php | false |
CHICAGO, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Just a short drive southwest of Chicago in Tinley Park, IL sits a town where an array of animals of every kind have been set loose this summer in the downtown.
There's no need to call Animal Control, though, because these particular creatures are made of wood and paint, part of the Village of Tinley Park's annual Benches on the Avenue public art program!
Featuring nearly two dozen animal-themed benches that you can actually sit on as well as admire, these wonderful works of art are on display now through October between 172nd and 174th streets along Oak Park Avenue in Downtown Tinley.
Since its debut in 2004, the Benches on the Avenue program has grown to become one the region's most popular public art displays, attracting thousands of visitors to Tinley Park each year. The colorful works of art feature the talents of both amateur and professional artists, who create their benches around a single unifying theme. This year, it's "Animal Adventure."
But while the theme may change every year, the joy the benches bring to visitors never does. Just ask local artist Marty Rose, co-creator of the "Savannah Cats" bench, who has been participating in the "Benches" program since the start.
"I see the satisfaction in a lot of people's eyes when they walk down this whole avenue and see all these benches," Rose said. "There are so many different creations, and every one of them is a new experience."
You don't have to be a Tinley Park resident to love the Benches, either. The Village has received many calls from people who live out of state who come every year to see them. Some even like to make it a fun scavenger hunt where they check off each one as they walk down Oak Park Avenue!
Whether it swims in the sea, walks on land or soars through the air, Oak Park Avenue in Downtown Tinley Park is the place to be this summer for those looking to get up close and personal with all kinds of creatures. All you'll need is a few friends, a camera and your imagination!
You really have to see them to believe them, so come out to Tinley Park, where music is in our DNA and we always live Life Amplified!
Learn more at www.TinleyPark.org/Benches, where you can watch a video of this year's Benches and see a brochure with locations for each.
CONTACT:
Jason Freeman
Public Information Specialist
(708) 444-5042 | jfreeman@tinleypark.org
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'Kids are so prudish these days!': Kate Moss reveals her daughter Lila, 19, doesn't wear some of her clothes because she finds them too risqué
She was known for her racy outfits and show-stopping runway looks in her 1990s modelling days.
And Kate Moss has revealed that her daughter Lila refuses to wear some of her outfits because she finds them too risqué.
The supermodel, 48, explained that her 19-year-old daughter - who she shares with her ex-boyfriend Jefferson Hack - has started to take an interest in her wardrobe.
Fashionistas: Kate Moss has revealed that her 19-year-old daughter Lila (both pictured in May) refuses to wear some of her outfits because she finds them too risqué
But she said Lila won't wear some of her miniskirts because she thinks they are 'too short' as she joked that her daughter was 'prudish'.
Kate told Vogue magazine: 'Lila's started to wear my things, and we have to be careful! But she wouldn't wear a miniskirt because it was too short, kids are so prudish these days!'
The mother went on to say that her daughter had once said she would wear nipple covers under a sheer top, with Kate saying she advised her daughter, and other young women, not to.
The fashion legend went on to explain her fear that teenagers 'scared' to be themselves as she detailed a time where she attempted to persuade Lila to wear a mini dress from Marc Jacobs.
Sheer: Kate (pictured in 1993) said her daughter had once said she would wear nipple covers under a sheer top, with Kate saying she advised her daughter, and other young women, not to
'[Lila said to me] 'But Mum, nobody wears this!' and I said 'No one wore a '30s dress and trainers when I was your age',' she added.
She said her daughter went on to admit that she felt like Gossip Girl's Blake Lively as she wore the outfit later in the day, with Kate urging youngsters to dress how they want so they don't have any regrets.
However, Kate did cite her own fashion moment when she attended the V&A Gala in 2007 in a dress that unraveled during the night after she infamously ripped her Christian Dior gown.
She joked that she went in looking like Veronica Lake and came out resembling rock star Courtney Love, but said the moment providing her with great publicity.
Supermodel Kate Moss shares daughter Lila with Jefferson, with whom she was in a relationship in the early Noughties.
Style: Kate explained her fear that teenagers 'scared' to be themselves as she detailed a time where she attempted to persuade Lila (pictured in February) to wear a Marc Jacobs dress
Jefferson and Kate - who dated from 2001 to 2004 with Lila being born in 2002 - have an amicable relationship and would ensure their daughter spent a regular amount of time with each of them in her childhood.
While Lila still has a good relationship with both parents, she is often seen out with mother Kate as she is signed to her modelling agency.
The mother and daughter have walked in fashion shows together and made a joint appearance at this year's Met Ball in New York.
Lila is also now the director of her own company, Grace Grove Ltd, a move that coincides with supermodel Kate winding down three of her firms.
The name of the company is a nod to The Grove, the family home in North London, which Kate sold recently.
Oh no! But Kate did cite her own fashion moment when she attended the V&A Gala in 2007 in a dress that unraveled during the night after she infamously ripped her Christian Dior gown
Model daughter: Supermodel Kate Moss shares daughter Lila (pictured during Paris Fashion Week in March) with Jefferson, with whom she was in a relationship in the early Noughties
Speaking about growing up in the spotlight in a recent interview with Vogue, Lila confessed that she was shocked by the attention surrounding her mother, admitting that she was surprised her friends even knew who she was.
She explained: 'I went to secondary school and everyone was like, 'Oh, your mum's Kate Moss!' You don't really have a filter when you're that young and I was like, 'How do you know who she is? She's old! She's old and boring!''
Adding more about her relationship with her mother, Lila told the fashion bible: 'I was quite protective over my mum.
'All my mum's friends say that I was so scary as a child. I was quite serious. But also, I would always copy her.
'She would always have her head down and not look at the camera, so I'd always put my head down and not look at the camera. I still do it.'
Family: The mother and daughter have walked in fashion shows together and made a joint appearance at this year's Met Ball in New York | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11039827/Kate-Moss-reveals-daughter-Lila-19-doesnt-wear-clothes-risqu.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | 2022-07-22T21:09:22Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11039827/Kate-Moss-reveals-daughter-Lila-19-doesnt-wear-clothes-risqu.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ito=1490&ns_campaign=1490 | true |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nicolee Ambrose wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Maryland's 2nd Congressional District.
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- A tiny houseboat on Lake Union comes with a tiny price tag | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Alert-Nicolee-Ambrose-wins-Republican-nomination-17323351.php | 2022-07-22T21:09:35Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Alert-Nicolee-Ambrose-wins-Republican-nomination-17323351.php | false |
NEPTUNE, N.J., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spectrotel, Inc., a next-generation aggregator and leading integrated communication services provider today announced TMC, a global, integrated media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online, has named its Collaboration and Customer Experience suite of services as a 2022 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award winner.
Spectrotel has developed a robust Unified Communications portfolio including several Gartner Magic Quadrant partners– enabling them to offer a fully integrated platform providing the highest level of features, reliability, and security.
"We are honored to be selected for the Unified Communications Product of the Year Award," said Ross Artale, Spectrotel President and COO. "Spectrotel's extensive Cloud Communications portfolio, offers true choice for the next generation of business communications and customer experiences. Our capacity to be flexible and create a solution that works for each customer's unique needs has driven our continued growth year over year within the enterprise space."
"It gives me great pleasure to honor Spectrotel as a 2022 recipient of TMC's Unified Communications Product of the Year Award for their innovative solution," said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "Our judges were very impressed with the ingenuity and excellence displayed by Spectrotel in their groundbreaking and fully integrated Collaboration and Customer Experience suite of services."
Winners of the 2022 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award will be announced online and highlighted in INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine online.
As the Next Generation Aggregator, Spectrotel is uniquely positioned to address the IT challenges of today and tomorrow. Leveraging their expansive relationships with best-in-class technology providers, with their thorough approach to understanding customer-specific organizational requirements, Spectrotel delivers comprehensive solutions to minimize risk, optimize resources and technology, and modernize the enterprise.
For more information, visit www.spectrotel.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
Terri Vaccarino
Vice President, Marketing & Product
Spectrotel, Inc.
tvaccarino@spectrotel.com
+1.732.345.7917
INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been the IP Communications Authority since 1998™. Beginning with the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. For more information, please visit www.itmag.com.
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LOS ANGELES, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hahn & Hahn LLP announced today that Partner Rita Diaz and Of Counsel Todd Moore have been recognized for their accomplishments as leading attorneys within the Los Angeles business community and named to the Los Angeles Business Journal's annual list "2022 Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Lawyers." The publication notes that litigators are a "special breed of attorney" because they need to "transcend expert comprehension of the legal system."
"Rita and Todd's dedication to our clients as well as their legal accumen and ability to advocate and manage the complex to reach positive solutions through litigation is a secret weapon for our clients," said Christianne Kerns, the firm's Managing Partner. "To see them represent our firm among some of the most talented attorneys in Southern California is an honor."
Diaz is a Partner and the Chair of the firm's Litigation Department. The feature states Diaz "has significant experience handling contentious trust and estates litigation, as well as advising trustees and beneficiaries through trust administration issues. She is also skilled at advising companies on employment matters, including discrimination, leaves of absence, and wage and hour issues, and reviewing and drafting employee handbooks."
Moore is a member of the firm's Litigation Department. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, eminent domain and appellate advocacy. He is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer. Moore's litigation and appeals practice has an emphasis in real estate issues, eminent domain, business disputes and trusts and estates. The feature states he "enjoys new challenges in that many of his cases have unique and complicated facts, so his work is challenging and rewarding." The feature continues by noting, "His clients appreciate Moore's ability to distill a complicated situation into a simpler one and to give them a menu of options for resolving their problems. The hallmark of his representation is coming up with workable solutions."
Hahn & Hahn LLP has been an active member of the Southern California business and legal communities since 1899. The firm represents entrepreneurs, innovators, business owners, family offices and charitable organizations in their corporate, real estate, employment, estate planning and family law issues and in litigation. The firm is a certified majority Women & Minority Owned.
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Keeping your house cool in extreme heat
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - In this extreme heat, you are probably cranking up your air conditioner, but there are ways to give your AC a break, manage the extreme heat, and save money on energy costs.
Consumer Reports’ Diane Umansky says the first thing you should do is turn on your fans. “What fans do, it’s really interesting. They don’t actually cool the air down, but they make us feel about four degrees cooler, and if you are using say a ceiling fan or a floor fan along with your AC, you can probably turn your AC up a couple of degrees and still stay just as cool,” Umansky said.
According to Consumer Reports, for each degree that you can boost your AC, you can save up to 4% on your energy costs. Fans don’t actually cool the air in the room, there’s no reason to leave them on when you’re not there. Turn them off until you return to the room. The way you use appliances can also make your house much hotter. To keep the temperature in check, avoid using your clothes dryer during the hottest part of the day. The same thing applies to your oven.
“Instead of turning on your oven, think of smaller appliances that won’t heat up your kitchen so much, for example, a toaster oven or an air fryer, something that isn’t going to generate so much heat,” Umansky suggested. “You can also run your dishwasher on air dry instead of heat dry. All these things can help keep you cooler.” Consumer Reports also suggests closing window blinds and drapes and replacing any worn weather stripping that’s allowing hot air to get inside.
Copyright 2022 KTVK/KPHO. All rights reserved. | https://www.azfamily.com/2022/07/22/keeping-your-house-cool-extreme-heat/ | 2022-07-22T21:11:39Z | https://www.azfamily.com/2022/07/22/keeping-your-house-cool-extreme-heat/ | false |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man claiming to be a film financier has been sentenced in Florida to nearly 22 years in federal prison for participating in a scheme to steal more than $60 million from investors and producers seeking financing for movies and Broadway shows.
Jason Van Eman, 44, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was sentenced Thursday in Fort Lauderdale federal court, according to court records. A jury found him guilty in May of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering.
According to court records, Van Eman and co-defendant Benjamin McConley, operating as Weathervane Productions, offered to provide financing to investors and producers seeking funds to produce motion pictures, theater performances and other projects. McConley and Van Eman promised the victims they would match their cash contributions and use the combined funds to secure financing from financial institutions in South Florida and elsewhere, investigators said.
Benjamin Rafael, a former Wells Fargo bank employee recruited by McConley and Van Eman, furthered the scheme by lying to victims about the security of their funds, prosecutors said. Victims lost millions of dollars and their contributions were never matched. Instead of financing projects, the money was transferred to personal and corporate bank accounts and spent on luxury automobiles, personal watercraft, real estate, stocks, jewelry, home furnishings, designer clothes, hotel accommodations and air travel, prosecutors said.
Eman was sentenced on Thursday to 21 years and 10 months in prison. On a previous occasion, McConley was sentenced to 13 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Rafael previously pleaded guilty to his part in the scheme, as well as another case involving fraudulent applications for COVID-19 relief loans. He was sentenced to 3 1/2 three and a half years in prison. | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4604120 | 2022-07-22T21:13:10Z | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4604120 | false |
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Witnesses heard a loud bang or snap before a helicopter supporting firefighter operations near the community of Anderson separated and then crashed last month, killing the pilot.
It was the first fatality related to Alaska wildfires in 22 years, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry and Wildlife Management.
Numerous witnesses said the Bell UH1B helicopter piloted by Douglas Ritchie, 56, of Wasilla, had a normal liftoff June 26 from the airport in Clear, according to a preliminary accident report from the National Transportation Safety Board released Thursday.
He was attempting to take equipment to firefighters battling the Clear fire in the Denali Borough by carrying it with a long line attached to a hook under the helicopter.
The report did not provide a probable cause for the accident, which will come later.
After the loud noise was heard, witnesses said the helicopter “bucked,” rolled right and began going to the ground.
After the helicopter crashed, a fire erupted, consuming a majority of the helicopter, according to the report.
Federal investigators said a video captured the helicopter’s final seconds before crashing.
It’s seen hovering with a long line fully extended below the helicopter, with the hook about 15 feet (4.57 meters) above the ground.
“As the pilot maneuvered the helicopter to hook up to the external load, a loud mechanical noise is heard, and a shudder is seen radiating through the helicopter,” the report said.
As the helicopter was falling to the ground, the report says, the transmission with the rotor head and blades, along with the tail boom, separated from the helicopter before it hit the ground.
The transmission was found with the rotor head and blades still attached about 20 feet (6.10 meters) from the main wreckage, the report said.
The state Division of Forestry and Fire Protection has said it contracted the helicopter, which was operated by Northern Pioneer Helicopters, to help with the fire.
Ritchie had worked for the company for 12 years and held the title of lead pilot, a biography on the company’s webpage said.
The last firefighter to die in Alaska was a smokejumper who was killed in a training accident in 2000. | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Witnesses-heard-snap-before-fatal-Alaska-17323136.php | 2022-07-22T21:14:50Z | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Witnesses-heard-snap-before-fatal-Alaska-17323136.php | false |
The Cluckin, at Midway and Frankford Roads, is a new spot that serves Zabiha Halal chicken and beef in the form of tenders, wings and sandwiches. It’s a small space where a line quickly queues at noon when it opens.
Along with chicken wings and tenders the menu lists burgers and sandwiches, including a "Philly and cheese," and a catfish sandwich. An extensive list of smoothies, "Sparkling Ades" (a mix of soda water and fruit flavors) and fruit teas are here to cool your tongue.
The wings and tenders come in multiple-piece sizes ranging from three to 50, with corresponding prices from $5.99 and up. These delectably prepared chicken portions can be ordered Southern fried, which has no sauce, or with any of the 14 available sauces, including garlic Parmesan, lemon pepper, Nashville, K-Town sweet and atomic. There is something for everybody: mild to spicy, savory to sweet and everything in between.
We went with four different sauces, applied to wings and tenders, and included an order of loaded yuca fries. The wings were ordered with Thai sweet chili sauce, which was — surprise, surprise — a perfect combo of sweet and mildly spicy.
For the tenders, the honey garlic had a slight kick, not overpoweringly sweet, hitting the best notes of both the garlic and honey. The mango habanero was slightly sweet and a bit spicier than its Thai sweet chili counterpart. Rounding everything out, the hot and spicy sauce was extremely spicy, bordering on what would be atomic at other places. One could still get some flavor, but the heat was almost too overpowering. “Hot and spicy” is truth in advertising here.
The range of mild to hot for these four selections would be honey garlic on the mild end, then Thai sweet chili, followed by mango habanero and finally hot and spicy. The fruit teas went a long way to both complement and tame the spicy sauce flavors.
In between bites of spicy chicken, we had bits of the loaded yuca fries, which come with onions, nacho cheese and Cluckin sauce. The sauce seems to be some sort of mustard and mayo hybrid, and we might ask that it be held if we ordered the yuca fries again. Still, it was a nice accompaniment to the wings and tenders.
Occasionally sauce can mask an otherwise bland or dry piece of chicken, but rest assured that The Cluckin takes its protein seriously. The chicken was hot and moist and flavorful on its own. The manager Moe was extremely attentive and praised us for showing up early, explaining that sometimes the wait can be 20 to 30 minutes because of the number of customers and the fact that they fry to order. There are no heat lamps evident at this place. Arrive early or prepare to wait a bit.
18110 Midway Road, Unit 104; noon – 10 p.m., Tuesday – Thursday; noon – 10:30 p.m., Friday & Saturday; noon – 7 p.m., Sunday; closed Monday. | https://www.dallasobserver.com/restaurants/first-look-the-cluckin-where-hot-and-spicy-means-what-it-says-14375111 | 2022-07-22T21:15:03Z | https://www.dallasobserver.com/restaurants/first-look-the-cluckin-where-hot-and-spicy-means-what-it-says-14375111 | false |
THETFORD TWP., MI -- One of the smallest townships in Genesee County has one of the biggest political problems in Michigan.
Not only has every member of the Thetford Township Board of Trustees been targeted for recall but two members of the board filed the proposed language needed to start the recall drives. | https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2022/07/every-elected-official-in-this-michigan-township-targeted-for-recall.html | 2022-07-22T21:16:53Z | https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2022/07/every-elected-official-in-this-michigan-township-targeted-for-recall.html | false |
ISTANBUL (AP) — Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the United Nations clearing the way for the export of millions of tons of desperately needed Ukrainian grain — as well as some Russian grain and fertilizer — across the Black Sea. The long-sought deal ends a wartime standoff that has threatened food security around the globe.
The U.N. plan will enable Ukraine — one of the world’s key breadbaskets — to export 22 million tons of grain and other agricultural goods that have been stuck in Black Sea ports due to Russia’s invasion. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres called it “a beacon of hope” for millions of hungry people who have faced huge increases in the price of food.
“A deal that allows grain to leave Black Sea ports is nothing short of lifesaving for people across the world who are struggling to feed their families,” said Red Cross Director-General Robert Mardini. He noted that over the past six months, prices for food have risen 187% in Sudan, 86% in Syria and 60% in Yemen, just to name a few countries.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov signed separate, identical deals Friday with Guterres and Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar at a ceremony in Istanbul that was witnessed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Russia and Ukraine would not sign any deal directly with each other.
“Today, there is a beacon on the Black Sea,” Guterres said. “A beacon of hope, a beacon of possibility, a beacon of relief in a world that needs it more than ever.”
“You have overcome obstacles and put aside differences to pave the way for an initiative that will serve the common interests of all,” he told the envoys.
Guterres described the deal as an unprecedented agreement between two parties engaged in a bloody conflict. Erdogan hoped it would be “a new turning point that will revive hopes for peace.”
Yet in Kyiv, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba sounded a more somber note.
“I’m not opening a bottle of champagne because of this deal,” Kuleba told The Associated Press. “I will keep my fingers crossed that this will work, that ships will carry grain to world markets and prices will go down and people will have food to eat. But I’m very cautious because I have no trust in Russia.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy echoed Kuleba’s concerns in his nightly video address, saying, “It is clear to everyone that there may be some provocations on the part of Russia, some attempts to discredit Ukrainian and international efforts. But we trust the UN.”
The European Union and the U.K. immediately welcomed the news.
“This is a critical step forward in efforts to overcome the global food insecurity caused by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss applauded Turkey and the U.N. for brokering the agreement.
“We will be watching to ensure Russia’s actions match its words,” Truss said. “To enable a lasting return to global security and economic stability, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin must end the war and withdraw from Ukraine.”
African leaders, whose countries import food and fertilizer from Ukraine and Russia, also welcomed the deal, with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa saying “it has taken much too long.”
Ukraine is one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, but Russia’s invasion of the country and naval blockade of its ports have halted shipments. Some Ukrainian grain is transported through Europe by rail, road and river, but the prices of vital commodities such as wheat and barley have soared during the war.
Although international sanctions against Russia did not target food exports, the war has disrupted shipments of Russian products because shipping and insurance companies did not want to deal with Russia.
Guterres said the plan, known as the Black Sea Initiative, opens a path for significant commercial food exports from three key Ukrainian ports: Odesa, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny.
The agreement, obtained by the AP, says a U.N.-led joint coordination center will be set up in Istanbul staffed by officials from Ukraine, Russia, Turkey to run the plan, including scheduling cargo ships’ arrivals and departures.
Inspectors representing all parties at the Bosporus in Turkey will search vessels entering and leaving Ukrainian ports to ensure no weapons or soldiers are on board.
Under the deal, “all activities in Ukrainian territorial waters will be under authority and responsibility of Ukraine,” and the parties agree not to attack vessels and port facilities involved in the initiative. If demining is required to make the shipping lanes safe, a minesweeper from another country could clear the approaches to Ukrainian ports.
The sides will monitor the movement of ships remotely and no military ships. aircraft or drones will be allowed to approach “the maritime humanitarian corridor” closer than a distance the center sets. The agreement will remain in effect for 120 days and can be extended automatically.
Guterres believes grain shipments could start “within the next two weeks,” according to U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq. A senior U.N. official said Ukraine needs about 10 days to prepare the ports and needs time to “identify and be clear about those safe corridors.” The aim is to export 5 million tons of grains per month to empty Ukraine’s silos in time for this year’s harvest.
Zelenskyy said nearly 20 million tons of grain will be exported initially, then some of the current harvest.
Guterres first raised the critical need to restart the supply of Ukraine’s agricultural production and Russia’s grain and fertilizer to world markets in late April during meetings with Putin in Moscow and Zelenskyy in Kyiv, then proposed a deal because of fears that the war could worsen hunger for up to 181 million people.
Peter Meyer, head of grain and oilseed analytics at S&P Global Platts, said the deal does not “mean that the global supply crisis is over.’’
Traders anticipated a deal for the past several weeks, he said, so its effect might already have shown up in grain prices. And the agreement only covers the 2021 crop. There’s still considerable uncertainty about Ukrainian production this year and even next, Meyer said.
Before the agreements, Russian and Ukrainian officials blamed each other for the blocked grain shipments. Moscow accused Ukraine of failing to remove sea mines at the ports, insisted on checking incoming ships for weapons and lifting restrictions on Russian grain and fertilizer exports.
Ukraine argued that Russia’s port blockade and launching of missiles from the Black Sea made any safe sea shipments impossible. It sought international guarantees that the Kremlin wouldn’t use the safe corridors to attack Odesa and accused Russia of stealing grain from eastern Ukraine and deliberately setting Ukrainian fields on fire.
Volodymyr Sidenko, an expert with the Kyiv-based Razumkov Center think tank, said Ukraine apparently did not raise the issue of stolen grain in the negotiations.
“It was part of a deal: Kyiv doesn’t raise the issue of stolen grain and Moscow doesn’t insist on checking Ukrainian ships. Kyiv and Moscow were forced to make a deal and compromise,” he said.
The deal was also important for Russia’s geopolitical relations, the analyst noted.
“Russia decided not to fuel a new crisis in Africa and provoke a hunger and government changes there,” Sidenko said. “The African Union had asked Putin to quickly ease the crisis with grain supplies.”
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Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey. Edith Lederer at the United Nations, Erika Kinetz in Kyiv, Ukraine, Raf Casert in Brussels, Jill Lawless in London and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed.
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BROOKLYN PARK, Md. — Anne Arundel County Police responded to a home burglary in the 200 block of 11th Avenue East in Brooklyn Park, around 12:30pm on July 21.
When the victim entered their home, they noticed two people sleeping inside. They immediately contacted police.
Responding officers then located three men inside the victim's home and arrested them.
The suspects were identified as, 45-year-old James Lee Reid Jr., Andrew Thornhill-Spioch, 34, and Jesse Frank Cummings, 27. | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/owner-returns-to-find-three-strangers-sleeping-inside-home | 2022-07-22T21:19:12Z | https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/owner-returns-to-find-three-strangers-sleeping-inside-home | false |
Extreme heat is gripping countries around the world. Host Ailsa Chang talks with NPR reporters in China, the U.K. and the U.S. about what they're seeing and how governments are responding.
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Extreme heat is gripping countries around the world. Host Ailsa Chang talks with NPR reporters in China, the U.K. and the U.S. about what they're seeing and how governments are responding.
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Police: 3 fatally shot at Iowa state park; gunman also dead
July 23, 2022 01:28 ISTPolice say three family members were shot to death while camping in a state park in eastern Iowa, and the suspected gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound
Three family members were shot to death while camping in a state park in eastern Iowa Friday, and the suspected gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Officers responded to reports of the shooting at the the Maquoketa Caves State Park Campground before 6:30 a.m. Friday, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation said in a statement. Officers found three people fatally shot in a tent on the campground, division assistant director Mitch Mortvedt said.
The three victims were related, Mr. Mortvedt said. He did not provide their names or ages, or explain how they were related.
Officials immediately evacuated everyone from the park, a children's summer camp on the grounds and the campground. Once the evacuation was complete, the only registered camper not accounted for was 23-year-old Anthony Sherwin, Mortvedt said.
“He was known to be armed. That of course heightened our awareness as well,” Mr. Mortvedt said. Iowa allows people with permits to carry firearms virtually anywhere in the state. Officials did not say if Sherwin had a permit.
Using a plane to help search the area, law enforcement later found Sherwin dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a wooded area of the park. Sherwin came from Nebraska, and investigators don't believe he had any prior relationship with the victims, Mr. Mortvedt said.
Mr. Mortvedt said he could not say whether Sherwin had a criminal record. A search of online court records in Nebraska and Iowa did not produce any record of prior criminal behavior.
Autopsies on Sherwin and the victims were scheduled to be performed over the weekend, Mortvedt said, and more information would likely be released based on those findings.
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Logan Macrae talks to us about “Where The Crawdads Sing” and what it was like working with Reese Witherspoon. He also reminisces exactly where he was when he got the exciting call for being cast in the film.
“Where The Crawdads Sing” is now playing in theaters everywhere.
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Signups open for Carnation Festival fishing derby
Registration is required by noon Aug. 3 for youngsters to take part in the Greater Alliance Carnation Festival Fishing Derby.
The event will run 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Aug. 7 at Kidwell Lake in Silver Park.
Youngsters ages 4 to 12 can compete for prizes in age groups. The competition will divide participants in groups of youngsters ages 4 to 6; 7 to 9; and 10 to 12.
To sign up, download the form from carnationfestival.com/fishing-derby; or follow the link from the festival's Facebook page. Turn in forms at the Alliance Area Chamber of Commerce office on East Main Street in Alliance, or at Runzo's Outdoor Sports, 27533 U.S. Route 62 in Beloit.
Children who participate in the derby must be supervised by a parent or guardian at all times.
Call event contact Ron Bradway with questions at 330-704-0393. | https://www.the-review.com/story/news/2022/07/22/signups-open-carnation-festival-fishing-derby/10125762002/ | 2022-07-22T21:21:32Z | https://www.the-review.com/story/news/2022/07/22/signups-open-carnation-festival-fishing-derby/10125762002/ | false |
Man ‘ashamed’ after trying to kill someone with forklift, officials say
MOHAVE VALLEY, Ariz. (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) — A man is in critical condition after he was pinned underneath a forklift weighing thousands of pounds in Arizona.
Officials said he was found because the suspect who allegedly put him there brought deputies to the scene of the crime.
It happened Thursday night in Mohave Valley in western Arizona. According to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, deputies met with a man at a business shortly after 10 p.m. He reportedly looked distressed and then told deputies he had done something wrong and was ashamed of it.
He explained to deputies that he had lowered a forklift onto a man and that he wasn’t sure if he was dead.
They said he agreed to take deputies to the home, where they found a man pinned. Emergency crews pulled the machinery off of him, and he was flown to a Las Vegas hospital where he was listed in critical but stable condition Friday morning.
The suspect, identified as 36-year-old Erwin Colato of California City, California, told detectives he first attacked the man in a travel trailer inside the home’s garage. They said he admitted to dragging the man onto the garage floor and lowering the forklift on top of him.
He reportedly told detectives his plan was to kill the other man.
Colato was booked into jail where he’s facing one count of felony attempted homicide. The victim’s identity has not been released.
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Crumbl sues rival cookie shop for ‘confusingly similar’ branding
TEMPE, Ariz. (KTVK/KPHO/Gray News) – An all-out “cookie war” is heating up in the metro-Phoenix area.
Crumbl Cookies has filed a lawsuit against Dirty Dough, a rival cookie maker with a store in Tempe and two in Utah.
The lawsuit claims Dirty Dough’s cookies, decor, packaging and presentation are confusingly similar to Crumbl’s brand.
It’s an allegation Dirty Dough owner Bennett Maxwell thinks is ridiculous.
“Our colors are completely different,” Maxwell said. “Our logo’s completely different, the messaging is completely different. Yes, we serve a cookie, but go find two cookies that look more different.”
Arizona’s Family looked at the two companies and noticed some similarities between Crumbl and Dirty Dough’s websites. Both have an assortment of flavors and serve the cookies in rectangular boxes.
“A pizza is a pizza, so send me a picture of a thousand pizza boxes,” Maxwell said. “What about fast food? What does everybody serve fast food in? A brown paper bag. Are you going to tell me they are suing each other? Yeah, they are close, but we are in the same business.”
Crumbl, which is based in Utah, has also filed a lawsuit against another small cookie company called Crave, alleging similar trademark infringement.
Crumbl released this statement:
“As a franchisor of 30,000+ Crumbl Crew members, 1,000+ Franchise Partners, and hundreds of Crumbl HQ employees, we will always take seriously our role in building and protecting the company and its trademarks that we’ve all worked so hard to create together.”
Dirty Dough is planning to open 96 new franchise locations in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and Idaho within the next two years. Maxwell said he has no plans of backing down from the lawsuit and is ready to fight in court.
“The general public can see the Dirty Dough brand and the Crumbl brand, and see they are not confusingly similar,” Maxwell said. “I will never walk into a Dirty Dough and buy cookies and say, oh crap, I thought I just bought Crumbl cookies.”
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Which round mirror is best?
A round mirror blends form and function to spruce up any room in the home. A well-placed mirror can also make a small space look larger by adding an extra dimension. And a round one can break up hard lines and angles.
Mirrors feature different frames, from the simple to the ornate. Round makeup mirrors may even feature lights. If you’re looking for a wall mirror that makes a statement, HBCY Creations Gold Circle Wall Mirror is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a round mirror
Mirror types
- Wall mirrors are larger mirrors designed to hang on walls. They can be used as a wall piece in lieu of art or hung in a bathroom above the sink for a more functional purpose.
- Decorative mirrors can be small or large, and they feature eye-catching frames. Ornate mirrors serve as accent pieces for a room while also providing a reflective surface to check yourself out.
- Vanity mirrors are smaller mirrors used for applying makeup. They can be wall-mounted or tabletop. They often feature lights around the frame and may have a magnifying side.
Size
Round mirrors are measured by their diameter. Wall mirrors range in size from 16 to 48 inches. Vanity mirrors typically measure 8 to 9 inches in diameter, and you can also find smaller decorative ones that size.
Frame vs. frameless
Most round mirrors come with frames for a finished look. Frames come in a wide range of materials, such as plastic, wood, and metal. Mirrors without frames are often less expensive while offering a contemporary look. Look for a frameless mirror with beveled edges.
What to look for in a quality round mirror
Frame style
When choosing a mirror, you want a style that matches or complements your current decor. Frames can be thin and minimal or maximalist and ornate. A thin frame in a neutral color is easiest to match in a room. However, if you’re looking for a statement or accent piece, select a mirror with a thick frame with tiles or a metal, sunburst style. You can also find frames that come in bolder colors, such as turquoise or pink.
Sets
Round mirrors, especially frameless ones or ones with minimal frames, offer a contemporary style. If you have a larger wall space to fill, consider a round mirror set that includes mixed sizes to achieve a trendy look that turns your mirrors into wall art.
Finishes
Metal is the most common frame material and comes in a wide range of finishes, including:
- Antique brass
- Antique bronze
- Antique copper
- Antique pewter
- Black matte
- Brushed bronze
- Brushed nickel
- Gold
- Oiled bronze
- Polished brass
- Polished chrome
- Polished nickel
- Rose gold
- Satin brass
- Satin chrome
- Satin nickel
Wood frames
Round mirrors with wooden frames add rustic charm to a room, especially if the wood is distressed or showcases the natural grain. Some wood types are more expensive than others, but you can find affordably priced frames made of engineered wood, acacia, or mango wood. More expensive wooden frames are made of elm or walnut.
Ease of installation
Unless you’re buying a tabletop vanity mirror, a mirror needs to be hung on a wall and requires installation and tools. Most mirrors come with mounting hardware (typically a ring mount, screws, and wall anchors), but larger mirrors may need professional installation if you don’t have the tools or the skills to mount them safely yourself.
How much you can expect to spend on a round mirror
Circular vanity mirrors start at $15 and can cost up to $400. Round wall mirrors also range vastly in price, starting at $35 and costing upward of $500.
Round mirror FAQ
How big a mirror should I get for my wall?
A. The rule of thumb is to buy a mirror that’s two-thirds to three-quarters the size of the furniture over which you’re placing it. However, round mirrors are typically smaller than rectangular ones, so consider a set of circular mirrors if you’re covering a larger wall space.
Are round mirrors considered accent mirrors?
A. Yes. Even one with a minimal frame provides a decorative element because of its shape.
What’s the best round mirror to buy?
Top round mirror
HBCY Creations Gold Circle Wall Mirror
What you need to know: A timeless style, this round gold mirror is simple yet elegant.
What you’ll love: This sturdy mirror is versatile and looks great in the bathroom or over a fireplace. It comes in five sizes, ranging from 16 to 36 inches. It’s easy to hang by yourself, and the customer service is excellent.
What you should consider: A minority of consumers said it’s overpriced.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top round mirror for the money
Greyleigh Needville Modern and Contemporary Accent Mirror
What you need to know: This affordable round mirror compares to $500 accent mirrors in quality and appearance.
What you’ll love: With 10 sizes and six finishes, you can find the right one to fit your needs and taste. The frame is simple and sleek. The mirror is heavy but easy to hang. It works in both traditional and modern decor.
What you should consider: It comes with only one hook to support its weight, which some say is not strong enough.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
Worth checking out
Umbra Hub Modern Vanity Mirror
What you need to know: With its unusual rubber frame, this durable mirror is ideal for busy households.
What you’ll love: This lightweight mirror features a rubber edge that acts as a bumper, so it is kid-proof. It is easy to hang and won’t scratch your walls.
What you should consider: The rubber material isn’t as sophisticated as wood or metal and looks cheap to some.
Where to buy: Sold by Wayfair
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TO: ALL PERSONS AND ENTITIES THAT HELD CARDINAL HEALTH, INC. COMMON STOCK AS OF THE CLOSE OF TRADING ON MAY 25, 2022 AND THAT CONTINUE TO HOLD CARDINAL HEALTH COMMON STOCK AS OF THE CLOSE OF TRADING ON OCTOBER 4, 2022.
PLEASE READ THIS SUMMARY NOTICE CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY.
DUBLIN, Ohio, July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Court authorized this Summary Notice. This Summary Notice relates to a proposed settlement (the "Settlement") of a stockholder derivative action: In re Cardinal Health, Inc. Derivative Litig., Case No. 2:19-cv-2491 (S.D. Ohio) (the "Action"). If the Court approves the Settlement, you will be forever barred from contesting the fairness, adequacy, and reasonableness of the Settlement and from pursuing the Released Claims.
The terms and conditions of the Settlement are set out in a Stipulation and Agreement of Compromise, Settlement, and Release, dated May 25, 2022 (the "Stipulation"). All capitalized terms used in this Summary Notice that are not otherwise defined herein have the meanings provided in the Stipulation and/or Notice.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Stipulation, the Settlement will provide Cardinal Health with a gross payment of $124 million, less any Fee and Expense Award awarded by the Court to Plaintiffs' Counsel. A more detailed description of the Action and the Settlement are set forth in the Stipulation as well as the full Notice to Cardinal Health, Inc. Stockholders of Proposed Settlement of Stockholder Derivative Action, Settlement Hearing, and Right to Appear (the "Notice"), both of which are publicly available for review on Cardinal Health's investor relations website at ir.cardinalhealth.com.
The Court will hold a Settlement Hearing at 2 p.m. on October 4, 2022, either in person at the Joseph P. Kinneary U.S. Courthouse, Room 167, 85 Marconi Boulevard, Columbus, Ohio 43215, or by telephone or video conference, to consider whether the Judgment, substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Stipulation, should be entered: (i) approving the terms and conditions of the Settlement as fair, reasonable, and adequate and in the best interests of Cardinal Health and its stockholders, (ii) dismissing the Action with prejudice pursuant to the terms of the Stipulation, (iii) ruling on the application by Plaintiffs' Counsel for the Fee and Expense Award, and (iv) ruling on Plaintiffs' application for service awards.
If you owned Cardinal Health stock (NYSE: CAH) as of the close of trading on May 25, 2022 and continue to hold Cardinal Health common stock as of the date of the Settlement Hearing, you may object to the Settlement, including Plaintiffs' Counsel's application for the Fee and Expense Award and service awards and appear at the Settlement Hearing to show cause why the Settlement, Judgment, or the applications for a Fee and Expense Award and service awards should not be approved and entered. Any such objections must be filed with the Court and served on counsel for the Parties no later than September 13, 2022 in accordance with the instructions set forth in the Notice.
PLEASE NOTE: Because the Settlement involves the resolution of a stockholder derivative action, which was brought on behalf of and for the benefit of the Company, the benefits from the Settlement will go to Cardinal Health. Individual Cardinal Health stockholders will not receive any direct payment from the Settlement. Accordingly, there is no proof of claim form for stockholders to submit in connection with this Settlement.
Stockholders are not required to take any action in response to this Summary Notice.
Please visit the Investor Relations section of Cardinal Health's website to read the full Notice and Stipulation for more information. You may also email questions to Plaintiffs' Counsel: Justin Reliford at jreliford@ktmc.com or Jennifer Sarnelli at jsarnelli@gardylaw.com. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT WITH QUESTIONS.
By Order of the Court
Contacts
Media: Erich Timmerman, erich.timmerman@cardinalhealth.com and (614) 757-8231
Investors: Kevin Moran, kevin.moran@cardinalhealth.com and (614) 757-7942.
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Man ‘ashamed’ after trying to kill someone with forklift, officials say
MOHAVE VALLEY, Ariz. (Arizona’s Family/Gray News) — A man is in critical condition after he was pinned underneath a forklift weighing thousands of pounds in Arizona.
Officials said he was found because the suspect who allegedly put him there brought deputies to the scene of the crime.
It happened Thursday night in Mohave Valley in western Arizona. According to the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, deputies met with a man at a business shortly after 10 p.m. He reportedly looked distressed and then told deputies he had done something wrong and was ashamed of it.
He explained to deputies that he had lowered a forklift onto a man and that he wasn’t sure if he was dead.
They said he agreed to take deputies to the home, where they found a man pinned. Emergency crews pulled the machinery off of him, and he was flown to a Las Vegas hospital where he was listed in critical but stable condition Friday morning.
The suspect, identified as 36-year-old Erwin Colato of California City, California, told detectives he first attacked the man in a travel trailer inside the home’s garage. They said he admitted to dragging the man onto the garage floor and lowering the forklift on top of him.
He reportedly told detectives his plan was to kill the other man.
Colato was booked into jail where he’s facing one count of felony attempted homicide. The victim’s identity has not been released.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials have begun rolling out a wide-ranging new law aimed at reducing vehicle emissions, including adding 10 more electric vehicles that will now be eligible for the state's rebate program.
The legislation, which increases funding for the initiative, raises the MSRP cap for eligible purchased and leased battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and fuel cell electric vehicles to $50,000. In turn, state residents who meet certain income requirements can qualify for up to $9,500 in incentives depending on the type of vehicle.
“We’ve seen a doubling, a doubling of the number of electric vehicles registered on the road here in Connecticut just in the last two years, as folks are ... struggling with high gas prices,” said Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Katie Dykes during a news conference highlighting the new law on Friday in New Haven. Dykes said the Connecticut Automotive Retailers Association has seen an uptick in customers who want access to electric vehicles.
The new law will also usher in the state's first electric bike voucher program. Dykes said the first public meeting was held this week to gather input on how to design the initiative. Additionally, the state agency has begun crafting a plan for distributing $20 million for electric school buses — spending that's expected to trigger federal funding, as well.
Meanwhile, the state is making up to $4 million available to public and private entities to purchase and install light-duty charting stations. The funding comes from a 2018 settlement between the federal Environmental Protection Agency and Volkswagen for violations of the Clean Air Act.
Dykes said her agency has also begun work on regulations that would implement California's clean air standards for medium- and heavy-duty motor vehicles, another key component of the new legislation. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Connecticut-adds-more-electric-vehicles-to-rebate-17323305.php | 2022-07-22T21:29:19Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Connecticut-adds-more-electric-vehicles-to-rebate-17323305.php | false |
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans City Council has reversed itself and approved police use of facial recognition software and cellphone surveillance towers to investigate violent crimes.
The ordinance, approved by the council on a 4-to-2 vote Thursday, comes as killings in the city reach numbers last seen in the mid-2000s after Hurricane Katrina. It partly reverses an ordinance passed nearly two years ago, when crime was low.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell called it “a tremendous stride towards greater public safety.”
The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana said facial recognition software has been shown to be biased by race and sex, and “there is absolutely no evidence that reinstating facial recognition will help reduce violence.”
The ordinance lists 39 specific crimes that can be investigated by using the technologies, including murder, rape, stalking, and battery of a police officer.
Two other kinds of policing software remain forbidden: programs that seek to predict spots where crime is likely and those which use characteristics such as size, clothing or vehicle model to track people.
The 145 slayings in the first half of this year put New Orleans on pace for the highest count since the late 1990s, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported.
Council members J.P. Morrell and Lesli Harris said the ordinance won't improve public safety and will divert focus from other urgent problems in the police department.
The New Orleans Police Department has a network of more than 500 cameras around the city, WDSU-TV reported.
Council member Eugene Green, who proposed the ordinance, said new police policies, including procedures for ensuring accuracy, were adequate safeguards.
“I would not do anything that would imperil myself, my two Black sons, or anyone in this city. That is why these safeguards are in place,” he said.
John Thomas, director of public safety and homeland security for the city, said, “The facial recognition in and of itself cannot get you any arrest warrants, no search warrants. It is just a tool for us to say, ‘OK, this is a lead,’” WDSU-TV reported.
Morrell and Harris said they could not vote for the ordinance without changes to ensure that it couldn't be used against same-sex couples and people seeking abortions, news agencies reported. Their proposed amendment also would have required a judge to sign off on use of the technology and regular reporting on its efficacy.
Changes can be made later, Green said. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/New-Orleans-OKs-some-police-use-of-facial-17323307.php | 2022-07-22T21:30:15Z | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/New-Orleans-OKs-some-police-use-of-facial-17323307.php | true |
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The Jan. 6 House select committee wrapped up the last of eight summer hearings Thursday night, in which it sought to demonstrate that former President Donald Trump bears responsibility for the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
If one thinks of this investigation as a connect-the-dots puzzle, the outline was already known before the committee began its work. But they put forward many more dots – via hundreds of interviews and 140,000 documents gathered – in an attempt to present a sharper final picture of presidential culpability.
Why We Wrote This
After eight hearings, the basic outline of what took place in the run-up to and on Jan. 6 remains the same. But new details could serve to sharpen a case against the former president.
Over the course of six weeks, the committee sought to prove that Mr. Trump is unfit for public office, and that he willfully deceived his supporters in a desperate bid to stay in power.
Legal scholars disagree on whether the evidence could lead to criminal charges against the former president. Still, many say the hearings have provided a valuable public record.
“These are very disturbing and at times breathtaking accounts,” says Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University who has been critical of the committee’s lack of GOP-appointed members and robust questioning. “The evidence ranges from the horrific to the heroic.”
It was the season finale, if not the end of the series. Last night, the Jan. 6 House select committee wrapped up the last of eight summer hearings, in which they sought to demonstrate that former President Donald Trump bears responsibility for the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The final hearing focused directly on what Mr. Trump was doing for the 187 minutes between when the Capitol was breached and when he released a video from the Rose Garden urging rioters to go home.
If one thinks of this congressional investigation as a connect-the-dots puzzle, the basic outline was already known before the select committee began its work. But the committee put forward many more dots – via hundreds of witness interviews and 140,000 documents gathered – in an attempt to present a sharper final picture of presidential culpability.
Why We Wrote This
After eight hearings, the basic outline of what took place in the run-up to and on Jan. 6 remains the same. But new details could serve to sharpen a case against the former president.
Over the course of six weeks, the committee sought to prove that Mr. Trump, who is widely expected to announce a 2024 presidential run, is unfit for public office, and that he willfully deceived his supporters about his electoral defeat in a desperate bid to stay in power.
“He is preying on their patriotism,” said Vice Chair Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, in her closing statement of the prime-time hearing. “On Jan. 6, Donald Trump turned their love of country into a weapon against our Capitol and our Constitution.”
The committee also suggested Mr. Trump might bear criminal responsibility, though legal scholars disagree on whether the evidence presented by the panel warrants bringing charges against the former president. Some now see a strong case against Mr. Trump, potentially for multiple crimes, ranging from defrauding the public to assisting an insurrection. Those charges could be further bolstered by the countless hours of depositions not yet released, which may include additional relevant details.
“Either he realized he lost or deliberately hid the truth from himself. And then he proceeded to do everything that he could possibly do without any regard for harm to other people, or to the country, without any regard to the law in order to overturn the election,” says Laurence Tribe, a professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard University. “All of this adds up to very serious federal crimes.”
Others say that while the hearings have exposed reprehensible, even immoral, behavior on the part of the former president, they fell short of establishing criminal culpability.
“A president’s failure to ‘do the right thing,’ – and that’s a direct quote from the committee – is a political rather than criminal judgment,” says Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University who has been critical of the committee’s lack of GOP-appointed members and robust questioning.
Still, while he doesn’t see a strong legal case against Mr. Trump, he says the hearings have played a valuable role in creating a comprehensive record of the events leading up to Jan. 6 and the attack on the Capitol.
“The committee has contributed a great deal in making details and accounts public,” says Professor Turley. “These are very disturbing and at times breathtaking accounts. The evidence ranges from the horrific to the heroic.”
Many of the hearings included graphic images of the violence of that day, scenes which were often difficult to watch. Several police officers who had battled the crowds at the Capitol attended the hearings in person and at various times could be seen with their heads in their hands. At the conclusion of most hearings, the committee members would file off the dais to shake hands with – or in many instances embrace – the witnesses, thanking them for sharing their stories.
Last night, Representative Cheney praised the witnesses who had been willing to come forward, including Cassidy Hutchinson, the young aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. “She knew all along that she would be attacked by President Trump and by the 50-, 60-, and 70-year-old men who hide themselves behind executive privilege,” she said. “But like our witnesses today, she has courage, and she did it anyway.”
Outlines now filled in
The broad contours of Mr. Trump’s rhetoric and actions leading up to Jan. 6 have been known for more than a year. Amid a rapid scaling up of mail-in voting during the pandemic, he began questioning the validity of the 2020 election results before voting even started. Then he persisted in falsely claiming that he had won, even after all but one of the 62 lawsuits his team brought had failed or been thrown out. He pressured the Department of Justice to find evidence of fraud, and when Attorney General Bill Barr said there was none on a scale to overturn the election, the president turned to state election officials, who likewise did not find any such evidence.
Then, in what many saw as a last-ditch and unconstitutional attempt, he tried pressuring state legislators to nominate alternative slates of electors. The idea was that when Congress met on Jan. 6 to count the Electoral College votes, a process overseen by Vice President Mike Pence, they could delay or overturn Joe Biden’s victory. When Mr. Pence made clear that morning that he did not believe he had the constitutional authority to unilaterally accept or reject the electoral votes, Mr. Trump encouraged the massive crowd rallying near the White House to march to the Capitol. As rioters breached the building and engaged with law enforcement, he did nothing to stop the violence for hours.
The committee filled in new details within that narrative arc, bringing Republican lawyers, state election officials, and state legislators to testify in person, as well as former White House officials. Together with selected clips of videotaped depositions of former Trump aides, the committee outlined a pattern of behavior that they say demonstrated Mr. Trump willfully deceived his supporters into believing the election was stolen, and deliberately sent angry protesters, some of whom he knew to be armed, to disrupt the proceedings at the Capitol and pressure Mr. Pence and members of Congress as they began counting the Electoral College votes.
Some of the most attention-grabbing details of the eight hearings came from Ms. Hutchinson, the White House aide, who testified that Mr. Trump was told some of the protesters were armed but had nevertheless asked the Secret Service to let them into his rally, saying they weren’t there to hurt him. She also related an account she’d been told by another official, that when Mr. Trump was informed he could not join the protesters at the Capitol, he tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle and lunged for the neck of a Secret Service agent – an account that both Mr. Trump and, reportedly, Secret Service agents have denied. And she testified that when the president was told some rioters were yelling, “Hang Mike Pence,” Mr. Trump said he thought the vice president deserved it – something she pieced together from two conversations she had heard.
Last night’s testimony included an audio clip, distorted for security reasons, of someone identified only as a “White House security official,” who said that Secret Service agents in the Capitol on Jan. 6 became afraid for their lives, relaying goodbyes to their families, and warning that they might need to use lethal force to protect Mr. Pence.
Diverging views
While only two of the committee’s nine members are Republicans, and both are outspoken critics of Mr. Trump, nearly all of the testimony was given by Republicans who had supported or worked for the former president. Still, many Trump supporters have criticized the highly scripted nature of the hearings and lack of cross-examination to explore other possible motives or interpretations, or to evaluate the accuracy of witnesses’ recollections of an intense day more than 18 months ago.
Ms. Cheney addressed those criticisms in her remarks last night. “Do you really think that Bill Barr is such a delicate flower that he would wilt under cross-examination?” she asked, and then went through a list of other members of Mr. Trump’s inner circle who had testified. “Of course not. None of these witnesses are.”
Professor Tribe – who once taught two committee members, Reps. Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin, and is friends with both – says the hearings have provided stronger evidence than the impeachment proceedings on whether Mr. Trump incited an insurrection. He says it could now be “quite easily proven” that the former president defrauded the American people and obstructed a congressional proceeding. He even sees a pathway for prosecuting more serious crimes, including engaging in and assisting an insurrection against the authority of the United States, which would render Mr. Trump ineligible to ever hold office again, as well as seditious conspiracy, punishable by 20 years in prison.
Professor Turley disagrees, expressing skepticism that any of the crimes enumerated by Professor Tribe could be proven in court. He notes, for example, that the District of Columbia’s attorney general already investigated Mr. Trump for insurrection and never brought charges.
“The committee members said at the outset that they had uncovered what Representative Schiff called compelling evidence of criminal conduct by President Trump,” he says. “We have yet to see that evidence materialize.”
One question to consider is what else the Jan. 6 committee may have gleaned from witness depositions that it chose not to include in the tightly focused presentations to the nation.
“What was on TV was for the general public – not for a judge or for legal experts. And therefore, it’s understandable that they tried not to spend too much time on details that might matter in court,” says Ilya Somin, a professor at George Mason University in Virginia who researches constitutional law. “I would guess that many of those kinds of things were in fact asked about in the depositions.” | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0722/Jan.-6-summer-hearings-wrap-up-What-did-we-learn?icid=rss | 2022-07-22T21:30:28Z | https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2022/0722/Jan.-6-summer-hearings-wrap-up-What-did-we-learn?icid=rss | true |
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On Thursday, a global conservation collaborative — the International Union for Conservation of Nature — declared North America’s migrating monarch butterflies endangered.
The designation doesn’t carry regulatory weight — but it sends a strong message that the species is in trouble. Eastern monarch butterflies spend their summers along the eastern seaboard and migrate thousands of miles every fall to winter to Mexico.
Like many pollinator species, the butterflies have faced stark population declines in recent years. Climate change, deforestation and increased herbicide use are all to blame. Still, scientists in New England say there’s a lot more that can be done to protect the insects.
The path to endangered status
Monarch butterflies have been a focus of conservation concern for some time.
IUCN says the species' population throughout the United States and Canada has shrunk by between 22% and 72% over the last decade.
The eastern population, which migrates to New England every summer, is estimated to have shrunk by 84% between 1996 and 2014.
Monarch butterflies are currently candidates for federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. If approved, that listing would offer them a whole host of new protections. The federal government decided not to list them in 2020.
Steven Reppert is an expert in monarch butterflies and a retired neurobiology professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester.
He says at the time, the monarch’s case wasn’t deemed severe enough.
“There was a priority of animals and plants, and there were 100 that were higher priority for that designation than the monarch butterfly, and they could only do so many designations each year,” Reppert said.
'Death by a thousand cuts'
Many effects of climate change, including drastic temperature changes, have made it difficult for monarch butterflies to migrate, feed and find safe habitat.
“Climate change is an issue that is really important, particularly with what we’re seeing recently with all the heat, wildfires, droughts,” Reppert said.
Climate change is causing more extreme droughts and heat events across the monarch’s wide range. Droughts can cause milkweed, the food source for their caterpillars, to dry out. That means caterpillars have less food to eat, and it takes longer for them to become a butterfly.
Kent McFarland coordinates the Vermont Butterfly Atlas for the Vermont Center for Ecostudies. He says they face many other threats, alongside climate change. Herbicide use on agricultural fields has contributed to the butterflies' decline, as has deforestation and habitat loss.
"It's kind of a death by a thousand cuts," he said. "It's not necessarily just one thing."
Monarchs in New England
The butterflies migrate from central Mexico to the east coast in the summer, which is the time of year when they reproduce.
“They are starting to breed in our fields,” says Heidi Holman, a wildlife biologist at New Hampshire Fish & Game. “Keep your eyes open for that wonderful migration all the way through September.”
McFarland, with Vermont Center for Ecostudies, says that while monarchs are a pollinator species, they aren’t the pollinating powerhouse that bumblebees and other insects are.
Still, he says it’s unclear what the impact would be if they someday stop coming to New England.
The butterfly is Vermont's state insect.
“To me, that would be the biggest loss — to not have that mysterious phenomena, of, like, this tiny little insect migrating, you know, 3,000 miles,” McFarland said. “That’s the biggest loss for me.”
How to help
Scientists say there’s a lot that individual gardeners, farmers and others in New England can do to support monarch butterflies.
Kent McFarland with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies says next week, starting on July 29, New Englanders can join an international citizen science effort to track monarch populations here, as part of the Montreal Insectarium’s annual Mission Monarch Blitz.
"We've made it super easy for people to volunteer,” he said. “You can, you know, just count milkweed in your backyard and see how many Monarch eggs or caterpillars are on it. Or you can go to a local meadow or park and check milkweed for monarchs and caterpillars."
The blitz runs through the first week in August.
"The great thing is, sometimes with species that we think are endangered and having conservation troubles, there's not a lot that we can do, just as citizens," McFarland said. "But with monarchs, there's actually a ton we can do, because you often can find them right in your backyard, as long as you're taking care of your backyard properly."
McFarland says keeping a pollinator garden, even if you have very little space, is a huge help to monarchs. Letting milkweed plants grow and flower rather than weeding them can also help.
Reppart, with the Chan Medical School, says butterfly way stations across New England, like Monarch Watch’s Monarch Waystation Network, a national program with 40,000 contributors, provide monarchs with milkweed and assistance with reproduction and navigation.
He says monarchs are well worth saving.
“If monarch butterflies are no longer around then I think we’re talking about not only the monarch, but a number of other species that are going to be in danger,” Reppert said. “I think we have to be very concerned. If we lose the monarch butterfly, we’re going to lose a lot of other things.”
Holman, with New Hampshire Fish & Game, says now is the time of year to focus on helping monarch butterflies, since more will be arriving in the northeast this summer.
Holman, who also advises the Monarch Joint Venture, a non-profit that supports the migration of butterflies and provides research for their conservation, says people can support habitat for monarch caterpillars by using less herbicides and holding off on mowing their lawns.
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