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The Society held a viewing last month in the same location and hopes to make this a monthly event. Tourist and residents of Williams are invited to come tour the skies.
The group picked this day because the brightness of the moon will not interfere with the viewing of other heavenly bodies. The group donates their telescopes and time to interest people in the science of astronomy.
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Donald Sterling is now a household name. He is the Clippers owner who allegedly made distasteful racist remarks and is well-known for his donations to Democratic candidates and causes. His remarks, released by TMZ, have received massive media coverage. He was recently barred, apparently, from the NBA.
Kermit Gosnell is probably not a name known except to a select few. He was an abortion doctor in Philadelphia who delivered live babies and killed them by severing their spinal cord with scissors. He called the process “snipping.” He is not the only one at his clinic that conducted this process. It is alleged that sometimes his nursing staff and even administrative staff would conduct the snipping. It is unknown how many babies he snipped because he destroyed many of the records. He was only accused and convicted of a few of the murders and is now serving several life sentences.
The story of the Gosnell trial is not the trial itself, but the lack of coverage of the trial. CNN has become known as the missing plane network and all media outlets have donated various amounts of time to the Donald Sterling story. The benches reserved for the media at the Gosnell trial, however, were virtually empty. PBS and Associated Press did cover the trial and did a good report on the trial.
Empty seats reserved for the media at the Gosnell trial in Philadelphia.
Spike Lee is also a household name. He is a movie producer who has produced some pretty good movies—including Malcom X—and made millions. His campaign on KICKSTARTER is making headlines for raising over $1.4M of $1.25M requested for his new movie which is apparently a thriller about vampires. There are no details about the movie on the site because it is a thriller. This so-called “crowdfunding” campaign has been covered by the various mainstream media agencies.
Phelim Mcaleer is not a household name either. He is a documentary producer who has three titles to date. His conservative documentaries are the ire of the “progressive” movement. Especially Not Evil Just Wrong which is an anti-global warming movie. It screened across the nation, but did not receive the press of other award winning documentary makers who support the progressive agenda.
The media also did not cover the amazing crowdfunding for Mcaleer’s latest effort through Indegogo. The movie Gosnell and is the story of the abortion doctor aforementioned. The campaign started on March 28 and has raised over $1.5M of the $2.1M sought. The movie is breaking records for funding through the web site.
The movie is being made for television so it is questionable what networks would run a film contrary to the present agenda.
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A candidate in the European elections has been arrested after making a speech quoting from a book by Winston Churchill about Islam.
Paul Weston, chairman of the party Liberty GB, was making the speech on the steps of Winchester Guildhall, Hampshire, on Saturday, when a member of the public complained to police and he was arrested.
He had been reading from Churchill’s book The River War, written in 1899 while he was a British army officer in Sudan.
The candidate in the South East European elections on May 22 was detained after he failed to comply with a request by police to move on under the powers of a dispersal order made against him and he was arrested on suspicion of religious/racial harassment.
Read more at the Independent
By Amy Wagner
Heather Schreck was asleep around midnight in her Hebron home when a voice startled her.
“All of a sudden, I heard what sounded like a man’s voice but I was asleep so I wasn’t sure,” Heather said.
Disoriented and confused, Heather picked up her cell phone to check the camera in her 10-month-old daughter Emma’s room. The camera was moving, but she wasn’t moving it.
“About the time I saw it moving, I also heard a voice again start screaming at my daughter. He was screaming, ‘Wake up baby. Wake up baby.’ Then just screaming at her trying to wake her up.”
That’s when Heather’s husband, Adam, ran into Emma’s room. Adam said the camera then turned from his petrified daughter to point directly at him.
“Then it screamed at me,” Adam said. “Some bad things, some obscenities. So I unplugged the camera.”
But the Schrecks were only beginning to plug into the truth of what had just happened.
“Someone had hacked in from outside,” Heather said.
So how many other times had someone hacked into their camera and watched their baby through their Foscam IP Camera.
“You do kind of feel violated in a way,” Adam said.
Read more at Fox 19
In January, the federal judiciary learned of an email scam, in which emails purporting to come from federal and state courts are infecting recipients with computer viruses.
According to the Security Operations Center of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the emails are instructing recipients to report to a hearing on a specified day and time. The emails also instruct recipients to review an attached document for detailed case information. When the attachments or links in the email are opened, a malicious program is launched that infects the recipient’s computer. Several state courts have reported similar schemes, and also are warning the public about potential viruses.
Unless you are actively involved in a case in federal court and have consented to receive court notifications electronically, you generally will not be served with court documents electronically.
If you receive an email and are not involved in a court case or have not given your email to a court, do not open it. Contact the court in question. If your virus scanner checks emails, ensure that it is set up properly to detect viruses in emails.
The U.S. Senate voted Monday to approve the nomination of San Francisco lawyer Michelle Friedland to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. With Friedland’s confirmation on a 51-40 vote, the highest federal court to serve California will be fully staffed for the first time in decades.
Friedland is a Stanford Law School grad who works with Munger, Tolles & Olson. Her expertise is in antitrust and higher education litigation, but she also worked pro bono on the legal challenge to California’s anti-gay marriage measure Proposition 8.
University of Richmond Law School professor Carl Tobias calls Friedland “extremely well qualified” — so much so that retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor showed up at her confirmation hearing. Friedland clerked for the nation’s first female justice when she was on the high court.
It’s been a long time since the nation’s busiest appeals court has been fully staffed. How long? Tobias says “maybe as far back as the Reagan administration.” At times, as many as a third of the seats were vacant due to partisan battles between the White House and the Senate. Tobias says the 9th became one of the slowest appeals courts in the country, with a case load that overwhelmed the judges.
Read more at KPCC
The Arizona Department of Transportation will restripe the south roundabout in Wickenburg on US 93 tomorrow night, April 29. Work hours will be from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Northbound US 93 traffic will be directed to use the north roundabout to Tegner Street for access into Wickenburg. Southbound US 93 traffic will be directed onto Tegner Street to eastbound US 60 and through the work zone with flaggers.
Clearly marked detour signage will be in place to direct traffic around the work zone. ADOT advises drivers to proceed through the work zone with caution, slow down, and be alert for construction equipment and personnel.
PRESCOTT – The Arizona Department of Transportation will begin a bridge rehabilitation project on Tuesday, April 29 along a 10-mile stretch of State Route 260 (mileposts 267-277), approximately 17 miles east of Payson.
This $2.9 million project consists of reconstructing the existing bridge approaches of eight structures on the eastbound and westbound roadways. Work also includes milling and replacing the existing pavement at the bridge approaches, guardrail reconstruction and the replacement of existing pavement markings.
Work will begin tomorrow, April 29 at 6 a.m. in two locations, and will be in place for the next three months. Drivers can expect the eastbound lanes, at both locations, to be closed and traffic switched over to one of the westbound lanes creating a two-way roadway. Work hours are 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The first will be at the Tonto Creek Bridge (mileposts 267-268) near Kohl’s Ranch Road and the second will start at the Christopher Creek Campground (mileposts 272 -277) and work eastbound for five miles.
Delays are possible and drivers need to allow extra travel time to reach their destinations. The closures and detour will be in effect for the next three months.
The work zone will be clearly marked by temporary barricades and signage. ADOT advises drivers to proceed through the work zone with caution, comply with the reduced speed limit, and be alert for construction equipment and personnel.
WILLIAMS – Rain, snow and high winds stopped plans in the city of Williams for the annual Clean and Beautiful campaign and Kite Festival. Both activities are generally scheduled just after Easter and the day is normally warm and sunny. This is the first time that it has dampened the plans for Clean and Beautiful.
Some kids enjoyed the snowy weather.
The weather started about 2 am with rain turning into snow in the morning. Visibility dropped to about 100 yards, but some people still took advantage of the electronics waste disposal sponsored by the City of Williams at the rodeo barn.
The visibility increased later in the morning, but snow continued to fall. The weather service predicts the snow to continue in Williams and Flagstaff through the night clearing by tomorrow morning. 1-3 inches of snow accumulation is expected. Temperatures should rise to the 70s by next Saturday.
The weather was enough to kill events and the gardens people may have planted, but not enough to make up for the loss of snow over the winter months.
Photo Phoenix Business Journal
The Phoenix VA Health Care web site states:
“Honoring America’s Veterans with quality health care services, part of the largest integrated health care system in the U.S.”
CNN interviewed Dr. Sam Foote who retired from the VA Center in Phoenix after 24 years. Dr. Foote alleges that the VA kept two list of appointments. One he called a sham list that showed veterans were being seen in 14-days while the other secretive list were those veterans awaiting appointments.
CNN reported that records that would indicate that such a list existed were shredded in an apparent cover-up.
“The scheme was deliberately put in place to avoid the VA’s own internal rules,” said Foote in Phoenix. “They developed the secret waiting list,” said Foote, a respected local physician.
The CNN report covers the plight of U.S. Navy veteran Thomas Breen who died waiting for simple tests that could have saved his life.
Republican Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake and Democratic Representatives Raul Grijalva and Kyrsten Sinema have called for hearings. Senator McCain sent a letter to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki asking about the alleged waiting lists and if at least 40 veterans died as a result of the waiting lists, among other things.
According to CBS 5 in Phoenix, Sinema said:
“I am deeply disturbed by the allegations that delays in care and false record-keeping at the Phoenix VA Medical Center may have caused the deaths of Arizona veterans. We need a thorough investigation that holds those responsible for veteran deaths accountable.”
The report from Phoenix led KSDK in St. Louis to do a report on Albert Boyd—one of their local decorated Vietnam veterans.
When Boyd learned of the CNN report that the Phoenix VA had a secret set of records that hid its backlog of disability claims, he said it reminded him of his own struggles with the VA. Two years ago he hired a lawyer to fight his benefits battle with the Department of Veterans Affairs. He doesn’t expect a quick resolution.
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“Delay, deny, until you die. That’s what the veterans are saying now,” said Boyd.
Delays in the VA Health Care system are, unfortunately, nothing new. The delay until you die concept was developed around illnesses Vietnam veterans complained about concerning the use of Agent Orange.
Agent Orange was a defoliant manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical. The chemical was sprayed without restrictions between 1961 to 1971.
One Williams veteran told me that they would have to cover up in their jackets with their hoods in an effort to keep the chemical off of their bodies.
Like the Agent Orange issue, returning veterans began reporting symptoms of what has come to be known as Gulf War syndrome. The VA at first denied the existence of any disease only looking into the issue a few years later after media publicity led to documentaries and a 1998 television dramatization, Thanks of a Grateful Nation.
Screenshot of Phoenix VA web site.