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Justice Department Awards More Than $8.3 Million to Support California Victims of the Las Vegas Mass Shooting
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Los Angeles, California - The Justice Department Thursday announced that the Office of Justice Programs' (OJP) Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) awarded more than $8.3 million in Antiterrorism and Emergency Assistance Program (AEAP) funding to aid Californians who are survivors of the October 1, 2017, mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein made the announcement in a speech today to law enforcement at the Los Angeles Crimefighters Leadership Conference.
Fifty-eight people were killed and more than 600 physically injured when a man opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Festival, an open-air music venue, from a hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino on the Las Vegas strip. When officers located the gunman and entered the room, he was found dead with self-inflicted wounds.
This new grant is being awarded to the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, as 35 of the 58 murder victims and approximately 200 of those physically injured were from California. By some estimates, half of the concert attendees that evening were from the state of California. This incident of mass violence significantly impacted the state resources available to victims.
"The Las Vegas mass shooting was the deadliest in American history, and it inflicted unfathomable damage to hundreds of people, many of whom were visiting from California," Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein said. "While we cannot undo the evil that was done that day, the Department of Justice is doing its part to support first responders and survivors. We have already provided more than $19 million in funds for law enforcement and victims' services. Today we provide an additional $8.3 million to services for victims from California. We support them and all crime victims --and we will continue to do our part to help them heal."
The $8,353,884 in funding will provide supplemental crisis response and consequence management support services to help victims as they continue to heal and cope with probable re-traumatization. These services include supplemental crime victim compensation expenses; victim assistance, such as mental health and peer support groups; outreach to identify and contact victims, including a virtual victim resiliency center; and related expenses for support staff to provide these activities. The peer support groups will occur in multiple locations to provide easier access for victims.
In addition to this grant, in November 2018, the Justice Department awarded $16,735,720 to the state of Nevada, primarily for those not residing in California, to assist victims of this terrorist attack, including ticket holders, concert staff, vendors, witnesses, law enforcement personnel, and other first responders. The grant helped to support close family members, medical personnel, coroner's staff, taxi drivers, and others who helped the concert attendees. In addition, it defrayed the costs of counseling and therapy, vocational rehabilitation, and trauma recovery for victims and emergency responders. Funds also assisted with legal aid and supplemented the massive outlays incurred by the Nevada victim compensation program.
In June 2018, the Department awarded over $2 million to support first responders in the aftermath of the shooting. In addition, in November 2018, the Justice Department announced a new $8.7 million grant to provide multi-disciplinary, scenario-based active shooter training to first responders across the country.
"The scale of loss and suffering endured by these victims and survivors is enormous, and the trauma will follow them the rest of their lives," said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Matt M. Dummermuth. "We hope that these resources will help sustain them as they walk the path from pain and grief to healing."
AEAP is a non-competitive solicitation specifically created to provide supplemental emergency and longer-term victim support to jurisdictions where a criminal mass violence or domestic terrorism incident occurred. OVC awards funding once local and state authorities have determined the costs associated with responding and have submitted a request for assistance.


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Succession in LDS Leadership (part III)
January 30, 2008 LDS History, LDS Organization, Main, Successionbfwebster
Last August, after the death of Pres. James E. Faust, I wrote about the standard approach to succession for the Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and noted at the time:
The infographic that accompanies Stack's article refers to this process of succession as a "long-standing tradition". That's fair enough, given that there is no canonized scripture or revelation setting forth the manner of succession. This was the reason for the one major split that occurred in LDS Church history, right after the death of Joseph Smith, resulting in several different "Restoration" churches, most of which have dwindled or disappeared, the main exception being the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [RLDS], which changed its name to the Community of Christ in 2001 (it claims membership of about 200,000 worldwide as of 2006, down from earlier estimates of 250,000, probably as the result of on-going schisms).
However, that "long-standing tradition" has been followed in the LDS Church for over 160 years and for every succession to the Presidency since Joseph Smith was killed. As noted earlier, when the President of the Church dies, his counselors are automatically released, and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles becomes the sole body running the Church, led by the President of the Quorum of the Twelve — the most senior Apostle. After the deaths of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and John Taylor, the Quorum of the Twelve took over and ran the Church for 2-3 years before the First Presidency was reorganized. Since the death of Lorenzo Snow, however, the First Presidency has typically been reorganized in one to two weeks.
Notwithstanding those comments, there is an excellent posting over at Mormon Wasp that discusses why there was a delay in reorganizing the First Presidency after the death of John Taylor — due largely to deep disagreements among the members of the Quorum of the Twelve over (a) whether the First Presidency should be reorganized at all and (b) if so, who should serve in it. The posting is fascinating and has links to additional related documents and articles. Read the whole thing. ..bruce..
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djusted ratings for The 100's Terms and Conditions.
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Arrest in Animal Cruelty Case
Todd PittengerJanuary 4, 2023
A man being sought in connection with an animal cruelty case has been arrested. Saline County Jail records indicate 56-year-old Scott Marler was booked into the Saline County Jail this week.
Charges were requested against Marler last January in a case involving a dog that was badly injured.
Back on January 19th of 2022 Salina police officers responded to the 900 block of Choctaw to assist the Salina Animal Shelter. On contact with the shelter employees, there was a report that the shelter took a 4-year old black and white lab/retriever mix named Molly into custody. There was an allegation the dog had been abused.
Molly had been adopted from the Salina Animal Shelter back in August of 2021. After a tip was received in regard to abuse, an animal control officer went to investigate. The dog was brought back to the shelter in distress.
KSAL News was told at the time Molly was "clinging to life" when she was brought in. She was nearly beat to death. She had multiple skull fractures, two detached retinas, and other possible neurological damage.
Molly also was in an emaciated state. It is believed she was intentionally starved.
The severely injured dog was taken to a veterinarian for treatment.
In an investigation conducted by the Animal Shelter and the Salina Police Department, several witnesses were interviewed, evidentiary items were sought, and veterinarian records were obtained and reviewed. Through the findings, Salina police detectives were able to establish the probable cause to request charges of K.S.A. 21-6412, felony cruelty to animals and malicious torture.
Marler, who has a listed address of Branson, Missouri, was booked into jail in Salina on Tuesday.


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Level 3's Saenger: SDN a Gateway to Automation
Adam Saenger, Vice President, Global Product Development & Management, Level 3 Communications, 8/29/2017
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There is no single magic bullet when it comes to SDN. A good virtualization strategy -- particularly when it comes to SDN -- demands balance and orchestration of resources, technologies and methodologies, according to Adam Saenger, vice president of global product developments and management at Level 3 Communications.
Considering the emphasis Level 3 Communications Inc. (NYSE: LVLT) places on adaptive networking, that says a lot about the network carrier's network-virtualization philosophies.
In Part I of this three-part Q&A, Saenger delved into the roles of good employees and customer collaboration for improving the SDN experience. (See Level 3's Saenger: SDN Takes a Village.)
Here in Part II, Saenger talks about the role of VNFs in the SDN market and some of the technical aspects of getting started with SDN. In the last installment, Saenger will continue his discussion of what it takes to get an SDN initiative -- whether new or preexisting -- right.
Telco Transformation: With all of the increased attention being paid to VNFs, and SD-WAN in particular, what has been the impact on the SDN market in general that you're seeing?
Adam Saenger: Actually, if I take a step back and look at the hybrid networking or adaptive networking market, the SDN market, the SD-WAN market, the NFV market, or even the VNF market -- or whatever, whether it's a virtual or physical network function -- we're seeing that the impact really across the board is that each component is a critical part to the whole. SDN specifically is providing a lot of that control function of each of those pieces -- call it an orchestration function -- whereby customers are really embarking on this digital transformation within their own operating environment. Each of those components has to be orchestrated to provide a whole.
As such, importance is really being placed across the board. We see a lot of focus being placed on the likes of SD-WAN, the likes of hybrid WAN, the likes of SDN. I think the story really starts to become even more meaningful when those elements are talked about in the broader picture all together.
TT: For an organization that is either beginning its software-defined networking journey or one that is revisiting how it is deploying SDN, how do you begin approaching that balance of the orchestration of all of those different elements?
AS: So I'll answer that in two ways: One is how we've done it, and then I'll answer it from the standpoint of the enterprise.
We don't view it as a new journey or a shift in a journey. We view it as a continuation of that journey. From an SDN perspective, we've been in this space for more than five years. We've looked at it as a critical step in our journey to remove hands or get hands out of the network -- so automating those human-based transactions that take place to either manage the implementation or ongoing assurance of customer services.
SDN has provided that gateway into that automation. We then took that step into exposing those capabilities to our customers, and that is through our Adaptive Network Control Solutions capabilities and overall network orchestration control.
Today, over 84,000 devices are currently controlled via that SDN orchestration layer, and that provides a layer of automation that allows us to look at various underlying access technologies. So if one looks at hybrid networking in and of itself, it's the compilation of multiple access types to provide customers connectivity to their location, between locations and to the network assets or resources that they need to run for their business.
Taking that into the future, we've recently launched our own version of SD-WAN. That software-defined WAN -- as we're controlling the network resources -- allows us to extend some of that control mechanism out to the edge and it will be expanded to include more control in the future while allowing customers to really control that end-to-end network capability. (See: Level 3 Launches Premises-Based SD-WAN .) When I say end-to-end, it's truly site-to-site or site into that resource -- call it a cloud resource.
The second answer is from an enterprise perspective. Enterprises are going through their own digital transformations. They're looking for their own ways of first growing their business, innovating within their industry and leveraging the hardened assets of the past. It's coupling their existing hardened infrastructure with the elasticity and growth capabilities of a cloud infrastructure. With those resources being coupled together -- and the control and orchestration that it takes to manage their business -- that's the next generation of what truly adaptive networking looks like.
TT: You mentioned "hardened assets." Can you tell me what you mean by that?
AS: An example of a hardened asset is the existing IT infrastructure that is resident on premise within the enterprise data center. We are seeing customers that are moving those assets into public environments -- or more commonly augmenting those resources -- into their own private data centers and into their own private IT resources. They are augmenting those with public resources so that they can grow faster, and shift resources more easily. In terms of a business continuity or disaster recovery plan, they can pull those resources back in in a much quicker way than what a static environment or hardened environment previously would allow.
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