Actor Jay Johnston, recognized for his roles on Arrested Improvement, Bob’s Burgers and different TV and movie comedies, has pleaded responsible to a felony cost over his position within the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.

Johnston, 55, was arrested in June of final yr, charged with a felony depend of interfering with regulation enforcement officers throughout civil dysfunction and a number of other misdemeanors. He pleaded responsible on Monday to the felony civil dysfunction cost earlier than U.S. District Decide Carl Nichols — who’s scheduled to condemn Johnston on Oct. 7. 

On eyewitness video, Johnston, who stands properly over 6 toes, was initially seen filming protesters confronting police at a barricade as Congress met to think about electoral votes from the presidential election that resulted in former President Donald Trump’s loss.

Because the protest escalated into an assault on the Capitol and lawmakers have been compelled to evacuate their chambers, the FBI mentioned in an affidavit, Johnston joined a mass of individuals in a tunnel main contained in the constructing, the place he used a stolen U.S. Capitol police riot defend to assist shove cops backward towards a door.

“This was the location of among the most violent assaults in opposition to regulation enforcement that day,” the Justice Division mentioned because it introduced the responsible plea.

Within the weeks after Jan. 6, authorities knew Johnston solely as particular person 247-AFO, a tall man in a black jacket carrying a camouflage neck gaiter — which he typically lifted above his nostril, in an obvious try to hide his id. After the FBI revealed photographs of the particular person and requested the general public to assist establish him, the actor’s lawyer contacted the FBI’s Nationwide Risk Operations Middle. Johnston was arrested in June 2023, after surrendering himself on the FBI Los Angeles discipline workplace.

Investigators mentioned no less than two different items of proof helped hyperlink Johnston to the crime: he booked a three-night journey to Washington, D.C., returning to Los Angeles on Jan. 7; and he texted a buddy about his expertise.

“The information has offered it as an assault. It really wasn’t. Thought it form of changed into that. It was a multitude. Bought maced and tear gassed and I discovered it fairly untastic,” Johnston wrote in that textual content, which the FBI mentioned it acquired from “three present or former associates” of the actor.

In his appearing profession, Johnston was an everyday on the Nineties HBO comedy Mr. Present with Bob and David and appeared in Anchorman. He has repeatedly portrayed cops and brokers, from Arrested Improvement to The Sarah Silverman Program and Males in Black II. However after his actions in opposition to police in 2021, the long-running Bob’s Burgers present lower ties with Johnston. Final fall, one other actor changed him because the voice of Italian restaurant proprietor Jimmy Pesto Sr., in keeping with the Collider web site.

The Justice Division says it has now filed expenses in opposition to greater than 1,450 individuals in dozens of states for his or her position within the lethal assault on the Capitol. Of that quantity, greater than 880 have pleaded responsible and solely three have been acquitted of all expenses.

LONDON — Possibly the Centre Court docket spectators had been saluting Novak Djokovic’s opponent by saying his title. Possibly they had been booing Djokovic, making an attempt to rattle him. The 24-time Grand Slam champion was certain it was the latter — and he let everybody know he was not glad about it.

Djokovic simply beat Fifteenth-seeded Holger Rune 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 in simply over two hours Monday night time to achieve the Wimbledon quarterfinals, then made certain to get a message throughout to these followers he thought had been towards him.

Rune’s supporters at numerous tournaments typically will stretch out his final title, saying, “Ruuuuuune!” — which sounds quite much like “Boooooo!” — and that occurred once more Monday.

Throughout his on-court postmatch interview, Djokovic spoke briefly in regards to the match, however then veered right into a dialogue in regards to the folks within the stands.

“To all of the followers which have respect and that stayed right here tonight: Thanks very a lot from the underside of my coronary heart. I respect it. And to all these people who have chosen to disrespect the participant — on this case, me — have a goooood night time. Gooooood night time. Gooooood night time. Very gooooood night time,” he stated, stretching out the “Os” in “good” in order that they appeared like “boo.”

The interviewer tried to dissuade Djokovic from pondering anybody was making an attempt to taunt him.

“They had been. They had been. They had been. I don’t settle for it. I do know they had been cheering for Rune. However that’s an excuse to additionally boo,” Djokovic stated. “Hear, I’ve been on the tour for greater than 20 years. So belief me, I do know all of the tips. I understand how it really works. It’s high quality. It’s high quality. It’s OK. I deal with the respectful folks, which have respect, that paid (for) a ticket to observe tonight — and love tennis. And love tennis. And respect the gamers and the hassle that the gamers put in right here.”

At his information convention later, Djokovic was requested whether or not he thinks the All England Membership ought to do one thing to curb rowdy fan conduct.

“Look, I don’t know what Wimbledon can actually do about it. I imply, in these specific moments when it occurs, the gang paid their tickets. They’ve the proper to be there and cheer the best way they wish to cheer. That’s completely one thing they select — how they behave or how they select to assist the participant is actually as much as them,” Djokovic responded. “Sure, you could possibly argue perhaps a chair umpire or whoever can step in in sure moments and calm them down, however there’s not a lot you are able to do. You’re not going to take out the entire part of the gang or stadium as a result of they’re misbehaving or exhibiting disrespect.”

Rune — who obtained off to a horrible begin within the match, dropping the primary 12 factors — didn’t make a lot of all of it.

“If you happen to don’t know what was taking place, most likely it appeared like ‘boo,’” he stated.

“He was simply higher than me in the present day,” Rune stated. “Whether or not the gang was this or that, I believe it was nice assist for each gamers, to be sincere.”

When the match ended, Djokovic gestured as if he had been taking part in a violin, perhaps mockingly indicating he felt dangerous for anybody within the area that he had saddened by profitable and attending to the quarterfinals on the All England Membership for the Fifteenth time.

He has gained the championship at Wimbledon seven instances and was the runner-up to Carlos Alcaraz final yr.

“I performed in far more hostile environments, belief me,” Djokovic stated. “You guys can’t contact me.”

For the primary seventy or so minutes of Longlegs, the brand new movie from writer-director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter), it’s a profitable riff on the darker entries in David Fincher’s filmography. It channels the likes of Seven, Zodiac and the Netflix collection Mindhunter into one thing not fairly new, however totally different sufficient from its influences to maintain an viewers engaged. An obsessed FBI agent hunts a deranged serial killer who’s making a mythology that solely he and the agent appear to grasp. We’ve been exploring these tropes for almost forty years since Will Graham was first on the path of Hannibal Lektor (the spelling modified in future movies) in Michael Mann’s 1986 crime masterpiece Manhunter.

After spending appreciable time constructing its gritty, bleak model of actuality, Longlegs veers into the supernatural. That’s not a very surprising twist neither is it a spoiler as a result of each trailer and every bit of selling is promoting the movie as a horror film. It additionally stars modern-day scream queen Maika Monroe (It Follows, Watcher) because the FBI agent who’s tuned into Longlegs’ psychotic wavelength.

Longlegs presents itself as a thriller for almost all of its runtime, a puzzle to be solved by its investigator and by its viewers. The movie is about within the 1990’s, and Longlegs has been killing because the ‘70s. How does somebody commit these crimes on this trend for thus lengthy when he doesn’t appear to be current for the precise murders? I do know the locked-room thriller fanatics on the market are salivating at this prospect, and all I’ll say right here is: don’t get too excited. The reply is a nothing burger, as is the ultimate forty minutes or so of the movie.

This isn’t a case of keep in your cinematic lane neither is it an total ill-advised style mash-up. Crime movies with occult overtones have been round since earlier than Edward Woodward’s Sergeant Howie ran afoul of a cult within the people horror traditional The Wicker Man (1973). The issue is the movie’s descent into the occult muddies the narrative. The crisp, clear traces of the story turn out to be increasingly more convoluted because the third act of the movie progresses. The supernatural parts really feel like an excuse for why the movie flies of its rails earlier than the credit roll.

Maika Monroe delivers a stable, although largely one-dimensional, efficiency because the dogged Agent Harker who (regardless of being inexperienced in such issues) makes extra headway within the Longlegs case than any agent that’s come earlier than her. Her character feels (deliberately) at a take away from the motion unfolding round her as if she’s merely an observer and never a participant. I puzzled greater than as soon as if Monroe was portraying Harker as somebody with autism or some sort of spectrum dysfunction (although no point out is ever fabricated from this). Her efficiency jogged my memory of Swedish actress Sofia Helin who performed an autistic detective within the international crime collection Bron/Broen (The Bridge).

It’s good to see Blair Underwood as Harker’s boss who has the nice sense to experience her coattails to their suspect. He has the thankless “bureaucrat” position within the movie, however injects his character with humor and humanity. Underwood has at all times been an effortlessly charming display screen presence and proves that when once more right here. Nicholas Cage provides a surprisingly well-modulated efficiency because the titular serial killer. His occasional histrionics are acceptable to the tone of the movie and by no means tip into camp territory.

Osgood Perkins is clearly a gifted filmmaker. Longlegs has the grainy shot-on-film look of a grindhouse crime movie. Even its shifting facet ratios for flashbacks (a way that’s been used and abused of late) works inside the time capsule of this story. It’s a well-made crime/horror thriller that merely loses its manner within the thicket of concepts that Perkins needs to discover in his 100-minute movie.

When that occurs, the screenplay is normally responsible. Like most movies on this style, you could droop your disbelief, however the movie does start with its personal inside logic in place. Finally every reply supplied by the story breeds a number of new questions which are by no means addressed. Even the one large “twist” that arrives mid-film left me questioning in the event that they had been actually presenting the event as a twist. It appeared apparent from the earliest moments of the movie.

In the long run, the thriller itself isn’t a lot of a thriller. Mud off your Scooby Doo crime-solving abilities, and unmasking the particular person helping Longlegs is painfully simple. So far as the supernatural angle is anxious, you simply want to recollect the warning supplied by nation celebrity Waylon Jennings in 1973: “The satan made me do it the primary time, the second time I accomplished it alone.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Dylan followers who wish to relive his 1974 live performance tour with The Band will quickly have alternative to do this — ample alternative.

He’s releasing a staggering 27-disc field set that features full recordings of 27 of the 40 reveals of that tour, Dylan’s theatrical return to the stage with backing of the group with whom he made some his most memorable music. Columbia Data/Legacy Recordings introduced Tuesday that the set will likely be launched on Sept. 20, and can retail for $129.98.

The field contains some 417 beforehand unreleased performances, the document firm stated. Followers who need a barely smaller chew should purchase a three-album highlights field on vinyl.

It’s undoubtedly for completists: The set will comprise 21 completely different variations of “Lay Girl Lay” alone. There was already a stay album of songs from that tour, “Earlier than the Flood,” that got here out within the Seventies.

Dylan has by no means been shy about giving followers the prospect to listen to him. “The 1974 Reside Recordings” will solely be his third-largest field set — following the 47-CD full album assortment launched in 2013 and the 36-CD set chronicling Dylan and the Band’s 1966 tour.

The artwork of counterprogramming

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Practically 2 million clients remained with out energy as of mid-afternoon Tuesday, as utility firms scrambled to revive electrical energy with temperatures topping 90 levels.

The area’s three largest electrical utilities every estimated that just about half or extra of their clients would see energy restored by the top of Wednesday.

About 1.57 million CenterPoint clients didn’t have energy as of 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, with about 645,000 clients who misplaced energy from Hurricane Beryl again on-line.

CenterPoint officers mentioned Tuesday afternoon that they nonetheless count on to revive energy to 1 million of the roughly 2.26 million clients who noticed outages by the top of Wednesday. The corporate didn’t present a timeline for the remaining clients. CenterPoint mentioned Monday night that residents in harder-hit areas might see “extended outages.”

The corporate hasn’t launched a more-detailed timeline for restoring energy as of 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, citing the continued work to evaluate harm to its electrical methods. Hurricane Beryl “extra closely impacted” Houston’s electrical infrastructure than initially anticipated, inflicting widespread flooding, infrastructure harm and not less than 4 deaths. 

Firm officers mentioned about 12,000 frontline employees are laboring to revive energy. They’re prioritizing well being and public security services.

CenterPoint maintains the methods that ship energy to just about all residents of Harris and Fort Bend counties, together with another corners of Better Houston. In whole, about 2.8 million Houstonians depend on CenterPoint, in keeping with the corporate.

Suburban counties nonetheless out 

About 230,000 clients served by Entergy and Texas-New Mexico Energy in Better Houston’s suburban counties additionally had been with out energy.

Entergy reported about 147,000 clients remained with out energy in Montgomery County as of two p.m. Tuesday. About 16,000 Entergy clients in Liberty County and 6,000 clients in Galveston County additionally had been with out energy.

Entergy officers mentioned they anticipated about half of their 219,000 clients with out energy as of Tuesday morning would see energy restored by the top of Wednesday. The corporate mentioned a extra detailed timeline for remaining clients would arrive by Tuesday night.

Texas-New Mexico Energy reported about 38,000 buyer outages in Galveston County and 34,000 buyer outages in Brazoria County as of 1:30 p.m. The utility estimated that energy would return for these clients by Wednesday night.

CenterPoint outage tracker nonetheless not out there 

As CenterPoint works to revive service to the area, the thousands and thousands of Houstonians with out energy proceed to lack a important useful resource for monitoring electrical outages and restoration timelines: CenterPoint’s Outage Tracker.

The Outage Tracker, a map of the Houston metro space highlighting areas affected by outages, has been offline since Might on account of “technical difficulties” attributable to the derecho that swept by Harris County that month, CenterPoint officers mentioned.

On Sunday, a CenterPoint consultant mentioned the corporate would exchange the Outage Tracker with a “redesigned cloud-based platform” by the top of July. Within the meantime, the corporate pointed to its Storm Middle, which updates common outage data each fifteen minutes, and its Energy Alert service, which gives community-specific restoration data through textual content, e-mail or cellphone. 

However the lack of readability across the extent of energy outages and restoration timelines triggered consternation amongst CenterPoint clients looking forward to updates after the derecho. 

CenterPoint has lengthy contended with main climate occasions leading to widespread outages. Hurricane Ike, a Cat 2 storm that battered Better Houston in 2008, resulted in energy outages to just about 2.2 million CenterPoint clients. Some had been nonetheless with out electrical energy almost two weeks later. 

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The most well liked query across the Houston area on Tuesday — When will my energy be again on?

The reply will not be reassuring for the greater than 2 million individuals who misplaced electrical energy Monday on account of Hurricane Beryl. CenterPoint Power estimates that service might be restored to 1 million clients by the tip of the day on Wednesday, July 10.

That seemingly leaves round one million clients with out energy greater than 48 hours after the storm hit as the warmth and humidity cranks again up within the area.

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As of three p.m. Tuesday, greater than 24 hours after the storm completed shifting via the realm, 1.6 million-plus CenterPoint Power clients have been nonetheless with out energy.

“The storm veered off the initially anticipated course and extra closely impacted the corporate’s clients, programs and infrastructure than beforehand anticipated,” CenterPoint stated in a press release Monday afternoon.

The two.2-million plus with out energy is greater than double the 900,000-plus who misplaced energy in Might when a derecho unexpectedly hit the realm. It took greater than per week for these outages to be restored.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who’s performing governor of Texas with Gov. Abbott in a foreign country, stated Tuesday he desires solutions from CenterPoint.

“CenterPoint should reply for themselves in the event that they have been ready and positioned. The state was positioned and ready. I’ll inform you whether or not I’m happy or not when I’ve a full report,” Patrick stated.

Prospects wanting extra detailed data on outages and restoration should do with out the corporate’s outages map. It was taken offline within the wake of the derecho and remained offline as Beryl hit.

In response to a press launch on Sunday, CenterPoint initially mobilized 4,500 employees, together with lineworkers, vegetation administration employees and mutual support assets. By Monday afternoon, the utility firm stated it was rising the supplementary workforce to 10,000.

Whereas some clients have gotten energy again, CenterPoint officers say employees want extra time to evaluate harm.

“It’s going to be no less than a couple of days for us to actually full that harm evaluation,” stated Alyssia Oshodi, CenterPoint Power’s Director of Communications, on Tuesday. “Whereas we are able to’t give a definitive timeline but, as a result of we’re nonetheless simply in day one, it’s going to be a chronic outage-restoration time.”

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Oshodi stated residents mustn’t name CenterPoint to report outages.

“We actually encourage clients to maintain our cellphone strains open except they’ve an emergency, similar to a downed line that must be reported or one other hazard,” she stated.

College of Houston Power Fellow Ed Hirs warned folks it may take a very long time to get outages restored.

” rule of thumb is 2 to a few weeks if the town takes a direct hit,” Hirs stated. “It simply takes lots of handbook effort to string these wires and do it in a manner that’s protected. It’s very harmful work, and it needs to be executed accurately.”

A path to resiliency?

Hirs says stopping an identical widespread outage state of affairs might be pricey.

“It’s very costly to weather-harden a distribution grid throughout the town,” he stated. “Buried strains actually can’t be put in after a metropolis has sprung up round it. It prices an enormous sum of money to weave strains beneath already present utilities, sewer water, gasoline strains, roads.”

As a substitute of burying strains, Hirs believes CenterPoint wants to put in extra resilient distribution poles. However even this course of is dear and controversial.

He pointed to the Montrose neighborhood, the place the utility firm put in practically 50 weather-resilient poles during the last yr. Residents complained about blocked sidewalks and argued the poles have been eyesores.

“My god, the furor was astonishing,” Hirs stated. “These are the large, storm-hardened poles which can be alleged to take hurricane drive winds.”

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In a press launch Monday afternoon, CenterPoint pointed to the late adjustments within the forecast and stated that sophisticated their planning and restoration efforts.

“Consider, it’s a Fourth of July weekend, and it’s tough to mobilize 1000’s of women and men and vans and tools on such brief discover,” Hirs stated. “The truth that the storm turned to the north and basically to the east of the place it was initially anticipated to go definitely performed into that.”

Within the aftermath of Winter Storm Uri in 2021, the Texas Legislature targeted a lot of its consideration on shoring up the provision of energy by investing billions of {dollars} in pure gasoline vegetation.

“The state is clearly spending some huge cash proper now, billions and billions of {dollars} to present loans and grants to pure gasoline vegetation to come back on-line,” vitality marketing consultant Doug Lewin stated. “That’s targeted on one specific type of drawback, which is instances after we don’t have sufficient provide to fulfill demand, however these options, regardless of all the cash that’s spent, don’t do something when there’s a hurricane.”

Sutton is eligible for reinstatement Oct. 29. The choice adopted an NFL investigation. The Steelers signed Sutton to a one-year deal in June.

The veteran cornerback spoke about his standing when he met with reporters earlier this low season at Steelers organized staff actions.

“My job is to not attraction to another person,” Sutton stated. “My job is to be the very best model of myself and the way do I give that off to the mass or how do I give that off to everybody round me? I am in full management of that.

“So, I am by no means nervous a few narrative. I am by no means nervous about what essentially individuals say, as a result of clearly, greater than seemingly, they do not know me greater than anyone else.”

The Hillsborough County (Fla.) Sheriff’s Workplace introduced March 31 that Sutton turned himself into jail “after weeks of evading legislation enforcement.”

Sutton then entered a pretrial division program, which resolved the matter and lowered his costs from a felony to misdemeanor, in accordance with courtroom data. The phrases of that program included a psychological well being screening and probation, and barred Sutton from possessing firearms.

Sutton, 29, totaled 65 mixed tackles, six passes defensed, 4 tackles for a loss, an interception and a compelled fumble over 17 begins final season for the Lions. He totaled 233 mixed tackles, 44 passes defensed, 12 tackles for a loss, 9 interceptions, six compelled fumbles, two sacks and a fumble restoration via 101 profession appearances.

He entered the league as a third-round choose by the Steelers within the 2017 NFL Draft.

Steelers gamers are to report back to coaching camp July 24 at Saint Vincent Faculty in Latrobe, Pa.

The eight-game suspension imposed Monday on Steelers cornerback Cameron Sutton wipes out eight of his eighteen recreation checks. With a base wage of $1.21 million, that interprets to $537,777 in misplaced wages for 2024.

The fee to Sutton was far more than that.

Instantly after the Lions turned conscious that he was wished on (on the time) felony fees, they voided his assured wage for 2024 and launched him. That was $10.5 million, gone for good.

If the Lions hadn’t reduce Sutton, he would have misplaced $4.667 million in wage. The Lions additionally would have been capable of get better a portion of his $10.9 million signing bonus from 2023.

The Lions, nevertheless, didn’t hesitate to maneuver on from Sutton. The Steelers finally had no qualms about bringing him again. The actual fact, nevertheless, that the NFL finally suspended Sutton for practically half of the season underscores that, within the league’s opinion, Sutton deserved to overlook eight video games with out pay for his misconduct.

It wasn’t simply golf followers and media caught off guard by Wednesday’s announcement of Keegan Bradley as 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup captain at Bethpage Black.

“Yeah, it’s stunning,” Xander Schauffele stated on Tuesday on the Genesis Scottish Open, turning into basically the primary 2023 Ryder Cup participant to touch upon the most recent captain. “You usually count on somebody that’s slightly bit older to get chosen as a captain. I feel lots of people had been banking on Tiger to do it. He clearly has lots on his plate. So Keegan expressed his love for the Ryder Cup publicly, which all of us noticed. I haven’t talked to him or seen him but, however I’m certain he’s over the moon and goes to do an amazing job.”

Final 12 months, Bradley was a possible captain’s choose however was one of many first gamers left off the staff. Netflix’s “Full Swing” captured the moments Bradley, along with his spouse, Jillian, came upon he wasn’t chosen. As somebody who had lengthy been vocal about how a lot the occasion meant to him, he was crushed.

“I take into consideration the Ryder Cup each second I’m awake, principally,” Bradley stated, weeks earlier than the 2023 staff was introduced. “My greatest factor proper now could be attempting not to consider it whereas I’m taking part in as a result of it’s that essential to me.”

Bradley, 38, performed in two Ryder Cups, each losses in 2012 and 2014, and has a profession file of 4-3 within the occasion. He was a high-energy participant in these Cups — and nonetheless is at the moment on Tour — though Schauffele stated he’s not at all times like that exterior the ropes.

“He’s so laid again off the course,” Schauffele stated. “In case you get him in like a dinner setting or one thing, he loves sports activities. He’ll discuss sports activities all night time lengthy when you like. He’s a really passionate particular person. On the course, he’s intense. That’s simply how he competes and the way he’s. I’m certain as a captain he’s going to have form of a combined bag. He received’t be afraid and can get everybody going. I don’t know if he’s coached or captained some other groups in his life, whether or not it’s his children’ groups or one thing like that, however when somebody is de facto enthusiastic about one thing, they often do very well.”

Though, in accordance with Schauffele, there are specific issues a captain can do to make life simpler on the staff. For starters, he stated, he hopes Bradley cuts down on all of the compulsory Ryder Cup pomp and circumstance.

“Taking a bunch of images all dressed up. I’d be the primary man that I have to flee rapidly. It simply looks as if it’s all these little, even like staff dinners or issues of that nature, we will have them form of fast and inside versus having to exit, costume up and all these issues,” Schauffele stated. “It’s simply small issues. I feel there’s two or three dinners that we’ve got to go to which can be sort of mandatory-ish, and I feel if we reduce it down to 1 or two versus three that might be a very large deal.

“I don’t costume up and exit to dinner,” he continued. “I play 24 occasions, and I don’t suppose I costume up and go to 1 dinner in all these 24 occasions. Plus my spouse, she’s superb, possibly for an anniversary or one thing like that. She is aware of once I’m right here, it’s to maintain my head down and compete and that’s what I attempt to do.”

Captain Bradley already has his first suggestion.

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As GOLF.com’s managing editor, Berhow handles the day-to-day and long-term planning of one of many sport’s most-read information and repair web sites. He spends most of his days writing, enhancing, planning and questioning if he’ll ever break 80. Earlier than becoming a member of GOLF.com in 2015, he labored at newspapers in Minnesota and Iowa. A graduate of Minnesota State College in Mankato, Minn., he resides within the Twin Cities along with his spouse and two children. You may attain him at joshua_berhow@golf.com.