A handful of Republican operatives are quietly mounting a last-ditch effort to rescue Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from a Trump-backed primary challenge, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The previously unreported effort shows how some Republicans are trying to surreptitiously undercut the former president’s revenge campaign, which has so far claimed the political lives of a significant chunk of GOP critics.
Cheney—the vice chair of the House Jan. 6 committee—could be the next casualty. She’s facing tough odds in her primary fight this month against Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman.
Driving the news: Involved in the effort are Jeff Larson, the chairman of the Republican research firm America Rising and a longtime Cheney backer, and Julia Griswold Dailer, a former Trump White House and inauguration committee aide.
Their strategy is two-pronged: Persuade Democrats to cross the aisle and back the Wyoming Republican in this month’s open primary, and dent her Trump-endorsed challenger by portraying her as insufficiently loyal to the former president.
What’s happening: Two seemingly unrelated political groups recently popped up to try to beat back Hageman’s challenge.
The intrigue: Tex McBride, a Wyoming rancher who leads WDFD, told Axios that Larson recruited him for that role.
“They needed somebody that … has a voice in the state rather than just trying to bring in someone from the outside who nobody knows or trusts,” McBride said in an interview.
“My involvement is really just to put people in touch with each other and they go do their own deal, and help raise some money, but that’s the extent of it,” Larson told Axios.
Federal Communications Commission filings list Griswold Dailer as WDFD’s campaign manager. Her phone number for her is listed in advertising disclosures for both WDFD’s and CFSA’s Facebook ads.
A source involved in the campaign told Axios that Griswold Dailer is “running the show” for the umbrella effort.
She did not respond to multiple inquiries about the campaign and her role in it.
Digital and TV ads run by the two groups hit the same issue: Hageman’s supposed legal work to divert Colorado River water from Wyoming.
Cheney’s campaign has run similar ads on the allegations, which Hageman disputes.
WDFD and CFSA also share a treasurer and use the same digital and marketing vendors, according to Federal Election Commission records and a source code on their websites.
By the numbers: WDFD has reported spending $188,428 in support of Cheney since last month, making it the fourth-largest independent spender in the Wyoming primary race — and the top one backing Cheney.
CFSA has spent another $47,108 attacking Hageman, according to FEC records.
But far more has been spent attacking Cheney and boosting his rivals.
The top group in the race, Wyoming Values, has received $500,000 from Trump’s leadership PAC and spent more than $800,000 opposing Cheney and supporting Hageman.
Start a cult, get followers and destroy enemies as a cute lamb. Learn more about Cult of the Lamb including its release date, features, and more.
Published on August 5th, 2022
Developer Massive Monster and publisher Devolver Digital are gearing up for their anticipated release of the roguelike action-adventure game, Cult of the Lamb. In the game, which received its first look during the Devolver Digital Summer Showcase in June 2022, players will be stepping into the realm of cults as told through the eyes of a fluffy lamb.
Start a loyal following, discover cult secrets, and remain in the ways of your teachings while exploring your surroundings and eliminating those who seek to destroy your cult. We’ll look at everything you need about Cult of the Lamb, including its release date, platforms, gameplay features, and more.
Cult of the Lamb – Release Date, Platforms, and Trailer
Cult of the Lamb is a roguelike action-adventure scheduled for release on 11th August 2022 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam.
The game is available for Pre-Purchase, and a demo is available to download via Steam. In the meantime, interested players can watch the official game trailer for Cult of the Lamb, which debuted during the Devolver Digital Summer Showcase in June 2022.
Cult of the Lamb – Gameplay, And Features
Cult of the Lamb is premised around a lamb rescued by a mysterious figure from being sacrificed. As you are indebted to them for saving your life, they take possession of your fragile body and, in exchange, gift you with unique supernatural abilities and task with starting a cult.
In Cult of the Lamb, you must start a cult, gather followers and eliminate your enemies to become the true influential leader. (Picture: Return Digital)
Starting your cult from the ground up will require work, exploring new locations, and hordes of followers who will gladly proclaim your “gospel.” Some of the notable gameplay features players can expect during their playthrough of Cult of the Lamb includes the following:
Build your Flock: Gather or harvest materials needed to build new structures and furnishings which can be used during rituals and ceremonies in servitude to the gods and proclaim your gospel with inspirational words to instill the faith of your followers.
Build your following by performing rituals and spreading your word to attract people to your cult. (Picture: Return Digital)
Destroy the non-believers: Those who deny or reject your word can be eliminated by fighting waves of enemies when exploring the expansive environments. Acquire their power and increase your cult’s preeminence by defeating rival cult leaders.
Spread your word: Teach your followers the cult’s ways and embark on missions while unraveling the mysteries of your world. In becoming the most powerful and influential cult leader, you must purify the lands from non-believers, expand your following and practice the teachings to assert dominance.
Cult of the Lamb – PC System Requirements
Becoming the most influential cult leader will require plenty of time and patience, but luckily for players, this game won’t demand high-performing PC specifications to run the game. Below, we’ve outlined the recommended and minimum system requirements to run Cult of the Lamb on PC:
Recommended PC Requirements
YOU: Windows 10 (64-bit)
processor: Intel Core i5-3470 or equivalent
Memory: 8GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 1050 or AMD Radeon R9 380
Storage: 4 GB available space
Minimum PC Requirements
YOU: Windows 7 or later (64-bit)
processor: Intel Core i3-3240 or AMD FX-4300
Memory: 4GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 560 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 7750
Storage: 4 GB available space
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Featured image courtesy of Massive Monster / Return Digital.
Michelle Jenneke jiggled, smiled, launched out of the blocks and blitzed her heat to cannon into the women’s 100m hurdles final at the Commonwealth Games on Friday.
The 29-year-old Australian favorite didn’t win her heat, instead collecting second in an all-conditions personal best of 12.63 (+2.4), but she was up against the rare-hot favorite for the title.
Unsurprisingly, Jenneke’s heat was won by Nigerian Tobi Amusan, who last month seized the world record and became the world champion.
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Michelle Jenneke advanced to the Commonwealth Games final of the women’s 100m hurdles in scorching fashion. (Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)
Jenneke led the race for a brief moment before Amusan, who won in 12.40, streaked away.
“I was actually surprised I was with her early. I don’t know how hard she was pushing it, she can go a lot faster than that, she’s pretty incredible,” Jenneke told Seven.
“Really happy with that… I’m in the shape of my life, clearly. It’s just really exciting, and I still feel like I’ve got a little bit more in the tank. So, we’ll see how we go in a couple of days.”
An energetic pre-race dance at the 2012 World Junior Championships sent Jenneke viral.
She bombed out in the opening round at the 2016 Rio Olympics and has suffered a series of injuries, but she’s back to her best and is still doing the dance.
Tobi Amusan pictured after clinching the women’s 100m hurdles world record at July’s World Athletics Championships. (Wu Xiaoling/Xinhua via Getty Images)
“Honestly, I feel like I run my best when I’m happy and relaxed and just soaking it all up,” Jenneke said.
“I’m not someone who likes to be super focused on what I’m doing… that’s what works for me and so that’s what I do.”
Jenneke’s personal best is the 12.66 she recorded at last month’s World Athletics Championships in Eugene, which saw her finish fifth in her semi-final.
Jenneke will be joined in the Commonwealth Games final by compatriot Celeste Mucci, who finished third in her heat at 12.96, matching her personal best.
Jenneke and Mucci will contest the decider at 7.25pm on Sunday (AEST).
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Detectives say members of the public intervened and attempted to detain the perpetrator of a violent sexual assault in WA’s north this morning.
Key points:
Broome police are investigating after a jogger was sexually assaulted on her morning run on Friday
The man attacked the woman and she screamed for help, attracting the attention of members of the public
Police are calling for help to identify the man
The woman was jogging in Broome just after 5am on Friday when she was attacked by an as-yet unidentified man.
Police cordoned off the scene, a popular cycling and pedestrian track in Broome’s northern suburbs, shortly after the incident.
They spent the day canvassing houses and searching for the man.
Broome police officer Detective Senior Sergeant Brian Beck said the woman fought off the attacker, attracting the attention of nearby residents and members of the public.
“A few members of the public managed to locate the suspect, they’ve confronted him and they’ve tried to detain him, but he has managed to evade them,” he said.
“There wasn’t a physical confrontation, it was more verbal… we believe the suspect has threatened the bystanders or the people who were assisting.
“We’re working through our actions in order to try and identify whether this was a targeted approach, or something else.”
Detective Senior Sergeant Brian Beck says the random nature of this morning’s attack is deeply concerning. (ABC Kimberley: Hinako Shiraishi)
The path is protected by dense bushland and isn’t visible from the main road, which runs parallel to it.
The man was walking in the opposite direction to the woman when police say he attacked and sexually assaulted her.
Officers have been canvassing nearby streets and houses looking for any clues.(ABC Kimberley: Jessica Hayes)
The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and St John Ambulance was called to take her to Broome Hospital.
“She has good family support; we’re supporting her very closely and our efforts are quite intense in terms of locating this suspect,” Senior Detective Sergeant Beck said.
The man is described as between 40 and 50 years old, 170-175cm in height with a medium to stocky build.
He has short sandy-colored hair and facial hair.
Police speak to residents as they continue their investigations.(ABC Kimberley: Jessica Hayes)
The forensic team is also at the scene, and detectives from the Sex Assault Squad have been flown to Broome to help.
Senior Detective Sergeant Beck said police would deploy extra resources from Perth to assist with the investigation and search for the offender.
“Members of the public are obviously asked to be vigilant and mindful of their surroundings,” he said.
“Obviously there’s a person out there that we’re still trying to locate.”
The path where the woman was allegedly attacked is a popular bike and pedestrian walkway that cuts through the north of town and stretches south towards Broome port.
Anyone with information or who has CCTV, dash cam or mobile phone vision of the area between 4.30am and 6am on Friday has been asked to call Crime Stoppers or report the information online.
Police say there is no indication of a link between this morning’s incident and a sexual assault at a party on Cable Beach in May, which detectives are still investigating.
House Budget Committee member Buddy Carter criticizes the president for trying to spend his way out of a recession, telling ‘Cavuto: Coast to Coast.’ this will add to America’s rising debt.
Senate Democrats are attempting to rein in the price of insulin through their social spending bill which will raise $739 billion in tax revenues.
The 100-year-old drug has tripled in price over the last two decades, forcing diabetics to pay thousands of dollars a year or ration supplies.
And capping the price of insulin may continue to grow as more Americans use the treatment.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) speaks to reporters during a news conference at the US Capitol on July 28, 2022 in Washington, DC (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) ((Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) / Getty Images)
A Congressional Budget Office analysis of a bill proposed earlier this year found an insulin cap would cost approximately $23 billion over the next decade and increase government costs and premiums charged by Medicare and private insurers.
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According to the American Diabetes Association, about 11% of Americans live with diabetes. Of those, approximately 8.4 million use insulin — and for one million of them, the drug is lifesaving.
“People require insulin, it’s not an option and nobody should have to decide between life-sustaining medication or food and rent,” Dr. Robert Gabbay, the chief scientific and medical officer for the American Diabetes Association, told the Associated Press.
Insulin is displayed at Pucci’s Pharmacy in Sacramento, Calif., July 8, 2022. ((AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)/AP Images)
The cost of insulin varies depending on healthcare coverage.
People with private health insurance could potentially pay hundreds of dollars a month. Most Medicare beneficiaries pay $54 per prescription. Others live in one of the 22 states where the copay for a 30-day supply has been capped between $25 to $100, according to the Associated Press.
Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisck and Sanofi are the only insulin manufacturers — allowing them to control much of the market.
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“They’ve been historically raising their list prices for their respective products in lockstep with one another,” Dr. Jing Luo, a professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, told the Associated Press. “There hasn’t been a lot of pricing pressure.”
US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) and Senator Joe Manchin (DW.V.) announced an agreement on the bill just last week. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
A generic drug for insulin has not been produced yet due to regulatory hurdles and questions about drug classification, according to Luo.
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Multiple attempts to lower the price of insulin have failed in the Senate. Democrats previously attempted to cap the price of insulin at $35 in the Build Back Better bill. More recently, Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Susan Collins are co-sponsoring a bill to reduce the cost of insulin at $35 per month.
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“If your health insurance company says, voluntarily, nobody who buys insulin in our plan will have to pay more than $25, the question is who is paying the balance of that?” Luo told the Associated Press. “That then means their cost will go up, which means they’ll raise premiums on everyone.”
What just happened? ASRock, Asus, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI revealed more details about their upcoming high-end X670 and X670E motherboards. Some of the most notable features include PCIe 5.0 and USB4 support, extreme power delivery designs, and wider M.2-25110 slots. However, the companies didn’t mention anything about their B650 motherboards, suggesting that these might not launch at the same time as AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors next month.
At AMD’s latest Meet the Experts webinar, board partners showed off some of the features and designs of their upcoming X670 and X670E motherboards. As a reminder, AMD’s AM5 platform will support CPUs with a TDP of up to 170W, 28 PCIe 5.0 lanes (x16 for graphics cards, x8 general purpose lanes used for storage and USB4/Thunderbolt 4 controllers, x4 to connect to the chipset), up to four DisplayPort 2 or HDMI 2.1 outputs, and dual-channel DDR5 memory.
ASRock only revealed one new model, the X670E PG Lightning, but also talked about some of the new features coming to their X670E motherboards, including USB4 ports with 27W fast charging, eight-layer PCBs, and an actively-cooled M.2 heatsink to keep PCIe 5.0 SSDs from overheating.
Asus showed off two of its upcoming motherboards, including the flagship ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme and the high-end ROG Crosshair X670E Hero. They will feature impressive VRM solutions with 110A power stages (20+2-phase design for the Extreme, 18+2-phase for the Hero), five M.2 slots each (with some being on separate add-in cards), and high-end audio solutions based on the ALC4082 codec.
On the rear panel, the Extreme has nine USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) ports, one USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20Gbps), two USB4 capable of 40Gbps, 10GbE and 2.5GbE jacks, audio ports, and Wi-Fi 6E antenna connectors. The Hero trades the 10GbE jack for an HDMI port.
Meanwhile, Biostar’s X670E Valkyrie will have a 22-phase VRM design with 105A power stages, two PCIe 5.0 x16 slots, and four M.2 slots (with two supporting PCIe 5.0).
Gigabyte showcased four motherboards, including the X670E Aorus Xtreme, X670E Aorus Master, X670 Aorus Pro AX, and X670 Aorus Elite AX. All models will come with at least one wider M.2-25110 slot and a THB_U4 Thunderbolt header. It’s worth noting that the X670E boards will each have one PCIe 5.0 x16 slot for graphics cards, while the X670 variants will use PCIe 4.0 instead.
MSI talked about four motherboards: the flagship MEG X670E Godlike, MEG X670E Ace, MPG X670E Carbon Wi-Fi, and Pro X670-P Wi-Fi. The Godlike will have the best VRM solution out of the bunch, with a 24+2+1-phase design and 105A power stages for the Vcore. Other notable features include MSI’s new screwless M.2 heatsink and a PCIe adapter card that supports two M.2-25110 SSDs with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface.
These motherboards will likely release next month together with AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series processors. The cheaper B650-based boards might arrive at a later time, considering the companies haven’t announced anything about them so far.
Australian sporting icon Bruce McAvaney just couldn’t resist.
The 69-year-old randomly dropped a reference to former Aussie sprinter Matt Shirvington’s “tight shorts” during Seven’s coverage of the Commonwealth Games.
The colorful caller was speaking before the men’s 200m semi-finals at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham after Shirvington had crossed to the commentary team from a Channel 7 studio.
“Let’s go back to Bruce,” Shirvington said.
“It’s the men’s 200m and I’m jealous. There’s a nice little tailwind for them.”
McAvaney responded: “You would like to put the shorts back on, wouldn’t you.
“And they were tight.”
The call got a brief giggle out of Channel 7 athletics commentator Tamsyn Manou.
The comment may or may not be related to McAvaney’s revelation on Friday that he has been getting less than three hours sleep a night in Birmingham.
McAvaney is commenting in the UK for the event where he is covering his fifth Commonwealth Games. The most popular sports caller in the country has also covered 11 Olympics.
More than 15 years after he hung up his track spikes, Shirvington still boasts the most famous lunch box in Australian sport — as immortalized by the commentary of comedian Billy Birmingham in The Twelfth Man.
Shirvington’s thunder is still a small part of Aussie sprint sensation Rohan Browning’s story. The 24-year-old, who finished sixth in the final of the 100m at the Commonwealth Games on Thursday morning, has previously laughed about not wanting to be compared to the Channel 7 presenter.
When Browning made history last year by becoming the first Australian to qualify for the men’s 100m event at an Olympics in 17 years, he was stitched up in a photo post on the World Athletics website which featured an unflattering close-up of his crotch.
Browning responded to the photo with a light-hearted tweet: “Can someone from World Athletics update my profile cover shot please? Don’t want to draw Shirvo comparisons”.
Staring down the possibility of taking out a large mortgage to buy a house they could barely afford, Luke Saliba and his wife Claire Gooch decided to try something different.
Instead, the young couple moved in with Claire’s mother Sylvia and took out a much smaller mortgage to renovate her house.
“The idea of the nuclear family being disconnected in the suburbs [feels] like it’s been forced upon us over the last 100 years,” Luke said.
“I feel like us challenging that, in this small way, is almost going back to the way things should be.”
Luke says having a European background means there’s “no stigma attached to living with grandparents”.(ABC News: Rhiannon Stevens)
The living arrangement has allowed Sylvia to stay in her home which was becoming too costly for her to maintain alone.
“I get to stay in a house that I quite like, in an area where I have established friends — it meant that I wouldn’t have any issues,” she said.
Sharing the house has also benefited Luke, Claire and their two young children.
Claire said having a small mortgage of around $350,000 and living in an area with good services meant they were better able to manage financially as the cost of living rises.
“My daughter needs surgery for grommets and adenoids and tonsils,” she said.
“If we didn’t live like this, that would be a problem and we’d be having to make choices between food, rent bills and medical things that the kids have needed.”
Claire says living with her mother is a great choice but acknowledges that not everyone has the opportunity to tap into generational wealth in this way.(ABC News: Rhiannon Stevens)
Having another adult in the house also meant she and her husband could turn to her mother for advice.
“My mum is very different to how I am and that’s been really good because my kids get stuff that I wouldn’t be able to do with them [and] I get ideas that I wouldn’t have had.”
The living arrangement worked because they tried to relate like housemates, not mother-daughter, she said.
“This is a group house where we’re related, and because we have similar backgrounds … we can probably live together a little bit easier, but living with my daughter is not always easy, but that goes both ways, right?” Sylvia said.
Luke, who is the grandchild of Spanish and Macedonian immigrants, said having a European background meant there was no stigma attached to living with grandparents, and he valued the presence of an older generation in the house.
“If any of us have a bad day, we don’t have to travel to go and touch base and provide that family support. We’ve got it in-house,” he said.
Sylvia loves being involved in the daily lives of her grandchildren.(ABC News: Rhiannon Stevens)
Multi-generational households growing
Edgar Liu, a senior research fellow at the UNSW’s City Futures Research Centre, said economic circumstances were often the driving factor for people choosing to live in a multi-generational setting.
Dr Liu, who researched multi-generational living over several years and defined them as households with more than one generation of adults, said data from the UK and US showed that the economic shock of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) increased the number of multi -generational households in those countries.
Edgar Liu says multi-generational households are increasing.(Supplied UNSW)
“From the US, in particular, there is evidence that [showed] a normal rate of growth was about 1.5 per cent, for this kind of household,” he said.
“[That] doubled to about 3 per cent as the GFC came on, and then it continued for a couple of years before it died back down to the normal rate of 1.5 per cent.”
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) provided new data to the ABC on households containing three generations.
It showed a small increase in three generational living arrangements over recent years, from 275,000 in 2016 to 335,000 in 2021.
But Dr Liu said the largest growth in Australia had occurred in households where two generations of adults lived together.
While finance, especially the cost of care for both the young and the elderly, influenced people’s decisions to form multi-generational households, Dr Liu said family connection was the benefit most often cited once people had experienced such living arrangements.
But he said in Australia this style of living was still stigmatized.
“Acceptance was very conditional, you had to have a reason to do this, you can’t just want to do it,” he said.
“[For example] your mother was in a wheelchair so that’s why she had to live with you,” was seen as an acceptable reason, Dr Liu said, but if someone simply enjoyed living with their mother it would raise questions.
A favorite family activity at Irina’s house is cards.(ABC News: Rhiannon Stevens )
The solution to isolation
Irina Kawar has always lived surrounded by generations of family, and she wouldn’t want it any other way.
Irina believes a “joint family”, as it’s called in India, can solve much of the isolation and loneliness experienced in Australia today.
“This is a very good solution for the people who feel isolated because isolation is as big a problem in old age as it is in teenagers,” she said.
“It’s a win-win for everyone, isolated teenagers, isolated grandparents — together, they are happy.”
For Irina, living with her in-laws, husband and two daughters also makes financial and emotional sense.
Irina says living with anyone — child, partner or parent — involves sacrifices, but the benefits outweigh the challenges.(ABC News: Rhiannon Stevens)
She said she never felt alone or frustrated learning to be a parent when her children were young because she always had family around to support her.
As migrants in Australia, having grandparents in the house also helped her children maintain a connection to Indian culture and language, she said.
“[The grandparents] follow daily religious practices, so I don’t have to make an additional effort to bring this into [the girls’] life, they can grow up around those practices as naturally as my husband and I did,” she said.
“If it was just the two of us raising our girls, we would need to make the conscious effort to talk to them in Hindi but living with grandparents — they just learn Hindi naturally.”
For those who have never tried living beyond the nuclear family unit, Irina understands there might be trepidation.
But she said sacrifices were made whoever you lived with, whether it was a partner, child, parents or extended family.
“A little sacrifice is all it takes, but the benefits are great.”
Nina Xarhakos has moved in with her mother Maria, and has become her primary carer.(ABC News: Rhiannon Stevens)
Caring for Maria
Decades since she last lived with her parents, Nina Xarhakos moved in with her mother Maria in 2020.
At 92, Maria suffers mobility issues and was becoming isolated after the death of her husband and several close friends, as well as the closure of her Greek social club due to COVID-19.
“I’ve worked in the community sector with Greek-speaking elderly, [so] I’m very aware of how prevalent depression and anxiety is among the elderly,” Nina said.
She said she respected her mother’s desire to stay at home as long as possible.
“It’s satisfying to me to be able to make that sort of contribution towards her quality of life and I think it strengthens our relationship as well.”
Nina said her mother would feel less comfortable receiving care from outside providers and it was becoming increasingly difficult to find carers with the language and cultural skills to care for someone like her mother whose English was limited.
“I was born in Greece and I came to Australia when I was seven, I’m the daughter of migrants, I’m bilingual and bicultural,” she said.
“I have a greater understanding than, let’s say, a 20-year-old who’s born here who has limited Greek speaking skills and understanding of the Greek culture.”
While she was enjoying this time living with her mother, Nina said carers made large sacrifices and received little financial support.
With a grown daughter and no partner, Nina said she was in a position to become her mother’s carer, and the living arrangement was benefiting them both.
“I’m learning certain skills from my mother, she’s passing on customs and traditions that I hold dear as well. So there’s a lot to learn from someone with such wisdom and such capacity.”
A nationwide manhunt over a bloody, thought-to-be-abducted woman in New Jersey was sparked by an accident and a bizarre misunderstanding, police told The Post Friday.
The unnamed woman — who was spotted screaming and bleeding inside a tractor-trailer on Route 130 Wednesday — was hurt when her husband hit the brakes to avoid an accident, South Brunswick Police Deputy Chief Jim Ryan said.
The woman, who was standing between the cab and the sleeper of the rig, flew forward and was left bleeding and screaming, he said.
But a worker from a nearby car rental company who did not see the big rig stop short, saw the woman bleeding and thought he might be witnessing a kidnapping and called police, Ryan said.
“He’s standing in a parking lot and he hears someone yell ‘help,’” said Ryan, adding the witness called police.
The mix-up triggered a multi-agency search for the truck and, after media reported the incident, at least 100 calls about possible sightings from Texas to California, Ryan said.
According to police, the nationwide manhunt for a though-to-be-abducted woman in New Jersey was due to a misunderstanding.South Brunswick Police Department
Police used surveillance footage, including from local businesses, along with tips to track down the 50-something married couple and determine there was no foul play Thursday, Ryan said.
“It’s amazing what people can do if they mobilize,” he said. “I’m glad the outcome was positive.”
Despite the weird mix up, he said the witness ultimately did the right thing by reporting the woman in distress.
“He actually saw it accurately, and made some great observations,” Ryan said.
A lawsuit against Activision Blizzard was dismissed last month because, according to a judge in the Southern California District Court where the complaint was brought, the plaintiffs didn’t play enough Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare to make an informed case against the maligned publisher. For once in Activision Blizzard’s many contentious legal battles, things ended smoothly.
According to a report by the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Activision Blizzard was sued in November 2021 by Brooks Entertainment, Inc., a California-based company specializing in film and TV production and other forms of entertainment. However, Kotaku couldn’t find an official website for the company. Brooks Entertainment and its CEO, Shon Brooks, who describes himself as an inventor, claim they hold the trademarks for the financial mobile games Save One Bank and Stock Pickers. It should be noted that Kotaku couldn’t verify the existence of these games, either. Regardlessall three of these entities, alongside Activision Blizzard and 2016’s Infinite Warfarewere at the center of the lawsuit.
In November 2021, Brooks Entertainment alleged Activision ripped off intellectual property from both Save One Bank and stock pickeras well as the identity of its owner, in Infinite Warfare. To be more specific, the complaint asserted the “main character” for the 2016 first-person shooter, Sean Brooks, was based on the company’s CEO and that all three games had “scripted battle scenes that take place in a high fashion couture shopping center mall.” There were other similarities, too, but these claims were the crux of the complaint.
But if you’ve played just an hour or so of Infinite Warfare, you’d know this is all wrong. For one, the main character isn’t Corporal Sean Brooks at all but rather his squadmate Commander Nick Reyes, a space marine who becomes the captain of the game’s primary militia. Moreover, while there is a scripted battle scene in a shopping mall, it takes place in far future Geneva, one of many in-game locations, and Sean Brooks ain’t in it. You play as Reyes the entire time.
In January 2022, Activision’s counsel wrote to Brooks Entertainment’s counsel that the complaint “contain[ed] serious factual misrepresentations and errors, and that the claims set forth therein are both factually and legally frivolous.” If the company didn’t withdraw the lawsuit, Activision would file Rule 11 sanctions, requiring the plaintiff penalties to pay a fine for submitting dubious or improper arguments without substantial — or, for that matter, accurate — evidentiary support. And that’s exactly what happened in March 2022, when Activision filed its motions for sanctions against Brooks Entertainment, saying the plaintiffs failed to play Infinite Warfare and provided inaccurate filings.
The Southern California District Court accepted Activision’s motions on July 12, dismissed Brook Entertainment’s lawsuit with prejudice (meaning the claim cannot be refiled in that court), and ordered the plaintiff’s counsel to compensate the troubled publisher for the money and time it wasted. In its conclusion, the court said the plaintiff failed to conduct a thorough and reasonable inquiry into the relevant facts about the game before filing the suit.
“Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is a first-person shooter game, not first- and third-person as alleged, and Sean Brooks does not conduct a scripted battle scene in a high fashion couture shopping mall,” the court said in its ruling in favor of Activision. “Plaintiff’s counsel could have easily verified these facts prior to filing the factually baseless Complaint, just as the Court easily verified them within the first hour and a half of playing the game.”
Kotaku reached out to Activision Blizzard for comment.
Richard Hoeg, a lawyer who specializes in digital and video game law, told Kotaku that unprotectable concepts like the names of people used in fictional entertainment are pretty difficult to copyright and claim infringement upon.
“It’s hard to say why the suit was brought up,” Hoeg said. “Certainly if a suit gets kicked out *with sanctions* it wasn’t a very good one in the first place. It might be simply hubris or it may have been counsel encouraging a suit against a well-resourced party. The suit itself says [Brooks Entertainment] pitched a game to Activision between 2010 [and] 2015. That all said, the infringement lawsuit is awful, alleging infringement on such unprotectable concepts as: ‘Shon Brooks navigates through both exotic and action-packed locations and Sean Brooks navigates through both exotic and action-packed locations.’”
Hoeg went on to say it’s hard getting “actual sanctions imposed on you” because that would be a level of bad lawsuit filing well above just a simple dismissal.
“The court basically finds the whole argument crazy,” Hoeg concluded. “Brooks Entertainment even included Rockstar Games for no reason (which didn’t help their cause with the judge). So, the sanctions here are Brooks Entertainment [has] to pay for Activision’s legal fees and costs.”
While things may have ended well for Activision this time, the disparaged publisher is still causing legal headaches. The company was just blasted by Devil devs for union-busting. Again. Ugh.
