on Friday announced the cancellation of all large events on public property in the city set for Saturday, June 15, and Sunday, June 16, due to “safety concerns” posed by several city council members.
It’s been nearly two weeks since a mass shooting during a birthday party near the intersection of Kelly and 8th avenues killed one person and injured 27 others. At least 45 shots from five different weapons were fired. No arrests have been made.
Malik said eight council members, some of whom represent wards where Juneteenth-related events were set for the coming weekend, signed and emailed a letter to him on Friday afternoon, referencing the June 2 shooting and calling it “irresponsible” to allow Juneteenth events to continue this weekend.
“When I get a letter like that, I take it seriously,” Malik said at a hastily called media briefing on Friday evening. “Despite the deference to our city council members, in this instance, there is no credible threat to this weekend’s Juneteenth events.”
The letter, which you can read below, was signed by Council President Johnnie Hannah, Ward 5; Vice President Jeff Fusco, at-large; and Councilmembers Margo Sommerville, Ward 3; Brad McKitrick, Ward 6; Sharon Connor, Ward 10; Sam DeShazior, Ward 1; Phil Lombardo, Ward 2; and Jan Davis, Ward 4.
Less than two hours before a scheduled concert on Friday in Akron’s Lock 3 park, the mayor announced the park would be closed and that the concert would be canceled.
Shammas Iqbal Qammar Malik was born and raised in Ward 8, Northwest Akron, Ohio in a Muslim family.[1][2] He is Pakistani and White.[3] His mother, Helen Qammar, was a chemical engineering professor at the University of Akron.[1] Brandon Choi is an uncle-in-law. In 2009, he graduated from Firestone High School with an International Baccalaureate Diploma.[4] He earned dual bachelor's degrees in political science and international studies from the Ohio State University in 2013.[4] Malik completed a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2016.[1] During law school, he completed several summer internships in Washington, D.C., including at The Pentagon.
[BBC] US investigators have arrested the founder and CEO of a telehealth company who is accused of a running a $100m (£78m) scheme to fraudulently distribute over 40m pills of Adderall and other controlled substances.
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said that Done CEO Ruthia He conspired with the company's clinical president, David Brody, "to provide easy access to Adderall and other stimulants for no legitimate medical purpose".
America's top law officer said the executives had exploited telemedicine rules that were loosened during the Covid pandemic.
Done Global, a San Francisco-based start-up, became popular during the pandemic as an online way to obtain Adderall by paying a monthly subscription fee.
Ms He was arrested in Los Angeles and Dr Brody in San Rafael, California, according to officials.
They are charged with distribution of controlled substances. They could each face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.
Adderall is a medication that helps manage symptoms of ADHD - which can include an inability to focus on a single task.
The charges come amid a national shortage of the drug.
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole Argentieri accused the pair of "spending millions on deceptive advertisements on social media".
"These charges are the Justice Department’s first criminal drug distribution prosecutions related to telemedicine prescribing through a digital health company," Ms Argentieri said in a statement.
Part of the alleged scheme included increasing the subscription fee, thus increasing the value of the company to "unlawfully enrich themselves".
The defendants also allegedly limited information available to prescribers, and instructed them to prescribe medications to patients even when they did not medically qualify.
They also allegedly mandated that Done patients complete an initial screening with the prescriber for no longer than 30 minutes.
Officials say they continued the illegal scheme "even after being made aware that material was posted on online social networks about how to use Done to obtain easy access to Adderall and other stimulants, and that Done members had overdosed and died".
They are also accused of defrauding government healthcare assistance programmes Medicare and Medicaid, as well as pharmacies, out of at least $14m and of conspiring to obstruct justice by deleting documents and emails.
Related: Ms He’s LinkedIn page. Note that she has bilingual proficiency in English and Chinese, plus a little bit of Vietnamese.
[Legacy] Rogelio Pardo-Maurer, a national security leader, veteran, scholar, media commentator, and advocate for human freedom, passed away on March 17, 2024.
Known to many as Roger, Pardo-Maurer's brilliance shone through the many endeavors to which he dedicated his life. Bridging national security strategy with frontline courage, Pardo-Maurer's career encompassed leadership at the Pentagon and service in the U.S. Special Forces. He taught courses at Yale and the National War College, and authored multiple books on Latin America. Speaking five languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian), Pardo-Maurer possessed a remarkable knack for interpreting complex global issues, rendering him a popular commentator on networks such as Univision and CNN. A tireless champion of freedom, his actions helped the lives of disenfranchised people from Kabul to Managua. A Renaissance man, Mr. Pardo-Maurer was well-known around Washington as a gifted pianist, artist and naturalist. His gregarious charisma, legendary wit, and exuberant love of life will be missed.
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Strange death. Alone on beach. "Pardo nació en Connecticut, pero sus padres lo registraron también como costarricense. Era un experto en temas de seguridad, hablaba seis idiomas, y estudió Economía y Política, además de Historia. Dichas carreras las cursó en prestigiosas universidades. Estuvo en combate en Afganistán y en Irak enviado como parte de las Fuerzas Especiales del Ejército de los Estados Unidos.
[GEO.TV] Britney Spears seemingly needs to slow down with her extravagant spending, if she wishes to spend the life of a popstar.
As fans will be aware, the Princess of Pop lost her position in the music industry despite the end of her 13-years-old conservatorship in 2021.
Then last years, the songstress also announced a life-long promise to never come back to the industry, and now a tipster revealed to In Touch Weekly how this decision can harm Britney amid mental health struggles.
"She’s earning a fraction of what she did in her peak earning years," the insider claimed and branded the Criminal hitmaker as merely "a social media star now."
The source even expressed concerns over her financial situation and added, "She could run out of money if she keeps spending the way she’s spending."
Nonetheless, they declared that "there’s still a mountain of money she can make if she wants to," revisit her decision of never returning to the industry.
"She can perform live again, and songwriters continue to pitch music that, if Britney actually recorded it, could be hits," the insider hopefully continued.
Before resigning from the chat, the source maintained that "Britney is fragile right now and needs help," and claimed that "the path she’s on now is only going to lead to more pain. The scary thing is there’s no plan for the rest of her life."
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Come on, Britney, there are plenty of washed-up pseudo-celebrities in Hollyweird that can help you try and stay relevant.
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Brittney’s nuts. Also her family is nuts. My metaphoric forecast of her future is a Nutella slurry sprayed by a Super Soaker into a hot dumpster behind a Long John Silvers that is also used by a pet rescue.
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HELSINKI (AP) — The World War II mystery of what happened to a Finnish passenger plane after it was shot down over the Baltic Sea by Soviet bombers appears to finally be solved more than eight decades later.
The plane was carrying American and French diplomatic couriers in June 1940 when it was downed just days before Moscow annexed the Baltic states. All nine people on board the plane were killed, including the two-member Finnish crew and the seven passengers — an American diplomat, two French, two Germans, a Swede and a dual Estonian-Finnish national.
A diving and salvage team in Estonia said this week that it had located well-preserved parts and debris from the Junkers Ju 52 plane operated by Finnish airline Aero, which is now Finnair. It was found off the tiny island of Keri near Estonia’s capital, Tallinn, at a depth of around 70 meters (230 feet).
"Basically, we started from scratch. We took a whole different approach to the search," said Kaido Peremees, spokesman for the Estonian diving and underwater survey company Tuukritoode OU, explained the group’s success in finding the plane’s remains.
Remember back in 1979 when DC sold us the idea that NAFTA would enrich the Mexico economy, stem the ILLEGAL Immigrant flow into the USA, by setting up factory and jobs down there?
How many millions of US Citizen have lost jobs since NAFTA was passed in the 90's?
How is it, China and other countries can ship goods into Mexico, and it's covered under NAFTA?
How did we end up with almost 24.2 million Illegals since NAFTA was suggested, passed and now have Press #2 for English?
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I never liked Tupperware. It's all plastic crap. Who needs 'em? Pyrex storage containers are mostly glass. Only the lid is plastic.
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Tupperware seems like a lava lamp type company. I wasn’t aware you could still buy their stuff.
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I use Rubbermaid containers. Gives me an excuse to go to Dollar General to see if any of that security guard vs shoplifter deadly force stuff is going down in the parking lot.
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^Abu, PYREX™ is borosilicate glass and I still have some pan lids and a lasagna pan made from it. While pyrex™ is a trademark registered for soda glass ...we used to make PYREX™ in the mainland US.
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Important point being only the borosilicate stuff has the temperature tolerance everyone associates with PYREX. Be real careful with the other stuff.
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I like the 2 cup Pyrex glass containers for portioning chili and such in individual servings, so I have a lot of them. Unfortunately, they changed the plastic of which the lids are made, which now crack after only a few years instead of lasting well over a decade.
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I got some of the old, good stuff at a flea market for next to nothing. A couple narrow ones that are great for meatloaf or bread and a couple 10" square that are great for baking or broiling fish.
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...The good news is that Space X is able - and ready - to go up and get them. The bad news is that if Starliner has to be abandoned (not imminent at this stage, but not absolutely impossible) then Boeing and the NASA transport program will be finished. Nobody will ever be able to justify another dime.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BBC] US investigators have arrested the founder and CEO of a 
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