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A Month of Islam in America: June 2019

Another month, and another step forward for sharia in America as more censorship was exposed. A whistleblower leak confirmed that @Pinterest protects Muslims and censors any reference to “creeping sharia,” and many other non-liberal topics.

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Jihad in America in June

Brooklyn: Muslim Immigrant Sentenced to 20 Years for Attempting to Join Islamic State (ISIS) Mohamed Rafik Naji was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment by United States District Judge Frederic Block for attempting to provide material support or resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization.  Naji pleaded guilty to the charge in February 2018.

Brooklyn: Muslim Woman Who Helped ISIS Gets 4 Years, But Will Be Out in 18 Months

With credit for time served, Sinmyah Amera Caesar will end up only serving about 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to charges accusing her of using social media to help recruit IS fighters under the nom de guerre “Umm Nutella.” She had also admitted violating a cooperation agreement with the government a — betrayal that infuriated prosecutors.

Illinois: Bosnian Muslim refugee and mother of 4  jailed for sending money, supplies to ISIS

Mediha Medy Salkicevic, a/k/a Medy Ummuluna, a/k/a Bosna Mexico, 39, was sentenced to 78 months in prison for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

Salkicevic, aka Medy Ummuluna and Bosna Mexico, espoused the ISIS philosophy that infidels should be killed and once said that unbelievers should be buried alive.

At the time of her arrest, she was working for an air cargo company at Chicago O'Hare Airport...

Illinois: Two Muslim converts convicted of aiding Islamic State (ISIS)

Joseph D. Jones and Edward Schimenti proudly waved a terrorist flag during a photo at a Lake Michigan park in Zion, had plotted to attack the Navy’s main U.S. training center near North Chicago and once had their eyes on planting an ISIS flag atop the White House.

Now Jones and Schimenti, both 37, have been found guilty of providing material support to ISIS.

Indiana: Yemeni Muslim who tried to join Islamic State terrorists gets 8 years in prison

U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker handed down the 100-month sentence Friday afternoon in the case against 21-year-old Akram Musleh, U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler announced.

He admitted in the plea agreement that from about April 2016 through June 21, 2016, he offered himself to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also known as IS, knowing it was a “designated foreign terrorist organization.”

Pittsburgh: Syrian Muslim Refugee Arrested for Planning Jihad Attack on Christian Church

Mustafa Mousab Alowemer, 21, a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was arrested today based on a federal complaint charging him with one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and two counts of distributing information relating to an explosive, destructive device, or weapon of mass destruction in relation to his plan to attack a church in Pittsburgh.

“Court documents show Mustafa Alowemer planned to attack a church in the name of ISIS, which could have killed or injured many people...”

Ohio: Jordanian Muslim Immigrant Sentenced to 15 Years for Trying to Join Islamic State (ISIS)

A Dayton, Ohio man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison and 25 years of supervised release for attempting, and conspiring, to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). 

Laith Waleed Alebbini, 28, was convicted following a bench trial in November and December 2018 before U.S. District Judge Walter H. Rice.

Alebbini attempted, and conspired, to provide material support and resources to ISIS in the form of personnel, namely himself.

Alebbini, a citizen of Jordan and a U.S. legal permanent resident, was arrested by the FBI on April 26, 2017, at the Cincinnati/Kentucky International Airport, as he approached the TSA security checkpoint.

South Carolina: Muslim - twice convicted for attempts to join ISIS and kill Americans - gets 20-year prison sentence

A federal judge has sentenced a South Carolina man who tried to join ISIS to 20 years in prison.

Zakaryia Abdin, 20, pleaded guilty in September 2018. The Ladson man was arrested in March 2017.

New York: Bangladeshi Muslim immigrant arrested in Times Square terror plot

Ashiqul Alam was arrested Thursday after arranging through an undercover agent to buy a pair of semiautomatic pistols with obliterated serial numbers, prosecutors said. Police Commissioner James O’Neill said that development was “a clear indicator of (Alam’s) intent to move his plot forward.”

The defendant, a legal resident born in Bangladesh, moved to the U.S. as a child about 12 years ago...

He talked about wanting to “shoot down” gays, referring to them with a slur; using a “rocket launcher, like a huge one,” to cause havoc at the World Trade Center; and obtaining an enhanced driver’s license so he could walk onto a military base and “blow it up,” the documents said.

Illinois: Muslim Arrested for Threatening to Bomb Aurora Casino for Allah

A recently released affidavit and search warrant claimed that 30-year-old Musatdin M. Muadinov,  while detained by police on Feb. 12, vowed to “pray to Allah” to “destroy the casino.” He further demanded to meet with President Donald Trump, saying that if his demands were not met, “we would all meet Allah,” according to the affidavit obtained by the Daily Herald.

Muadinov — who was dressed in what police described as “Muslim attire��� when arrested — waived his right to remain silent.

More Jihad in America in June

Florida: Suspect sent bomb threats to judges ‘for cause of Islamic State’

Nebraska: Heavily armed Marine arrested trying to enter Air Force Base

Arizona: Muslim shared terror propaganda before attacking police officer

Brooklyn: Muslim in Jail for ISIS Support Pleads Guilty to Slashing Correctional Officer

South Carolina: Man who pledged allegiance to ISIS hid explosive device in teddy bear

Arizona: Witness in probe of 2015 Islamic jihad attack on free speech event convicted of lying to FBI

Libyan National Found Guilty of Terrorism Charges in 2012 Attack on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi

Iraqi Muslim who orchestrated jihad attack that killed 5 U.S. troops gets 26 years prison, then release to Canada

Immigration Jihad in America

Minnesota’s first Somali Muslim cop gets 12 years for murdering Australian woman

Minnesota: St. Paul’s first Somali Muslim city council member says criticizing his homophobic comments is… Islamophobic

New York: Brooklyn Mosque Blasts Islamic Call to Prayer to 20 Block Radius (VIDEO)

Somalis have Changed Minneapolis

New York: Thousands of Muslims take over two city blocks in Brooklyn to pray in the streets

Four Muslim ISIS suspects arrested in Nicaragua, likely headed for US

Islamization of America

Pennsylvania: 167-year-old Catasauqua church will become Islamic mosque

Pennsylvania: Former Easton church is now a Sunni mosque

Pennsylvania: Former daycare in residential Salisbury to become Muslim “community center”

Virginia: Residential home in Annandale to become a Muslim funeral home

Education Jihad in America

New Jersey Public School District to Students: “May Allah Continue to Shower You Love and Wisdom”

Maryland school fails Christian student for refusing Islamic prayer

New York: Cornell Univ. Muslim Students Demand More “Prayer Rooms”

Stanford administrators say advertising for conservative event threatens Muslim students

The Muslim Brotherhood’s Muslim Students Association: What Americans Need to Know

DOE Investigating Elite Colleges For Hiding Saudi, Qatari Cash from Regulators

Islamic Slavery & Sexual Jihad in America

Virginia: Three Muslim family members arrested for conspiracy, forced labor, and document servitude 

Detroit Imam: Wife-Beating Serves to Remind Her That She Misbehaved (VIDEO)

Dhimmitude in Elected Office

Trump Admin Sues Greyhound for Banning Muslim Driver from Wearing Full Length Islamic Robe 

Democrat majority passes defense authorization bill that funds transfer of remaining Gitmo jihadis to U.S.

Minnesota: City of Bloomington allows terror mosque to flout local laws (VIDEO)

Minnesota city council votes 5-0 to ditch Pledge of Allegiance (to avoid offending Muslims)

Diversity is our Strength Alert

Minnesota’s first Somali Muslim cop gets 12 years for murdering Australian woman

Minnesota: St. Paul’s first Somali Muslim city council member says criticizing his homophobic comments is… Islamophobic

Boston Police Dept’s First Muslim Captain Put On Administrative Leave Amid ‘Anti-Corruption’ Investigation

Minnesota: First Muslim congresswoman Ilhan Omar fined by state for unlawful use of campaign funds

Minnesota Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar filed joint tax returns before she married husband

Fraud for Jihad

Connecticut: Muslim Grocery Store Worker Pleads Guilty in $3.2M Federal Food Stamp Fraud

Massachusetts: Muslim Restaurant Owner Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud Conspiracy

That’s just what we had time to compile for just the month of June.

Far too many steps forward for the sharia, and only a few pushbacks, but worth noting:

New Jersey: School District Scraps Posters Calling upon “Allah” to “Shower” Students with Blessings After Threat of Lawsuit 

Rather Than Go to Trial, Terror-linked CAIR Settles with the Victims They Defrauded 

Tunisian Muslim who swore allegiance to ISIS removed from U.S.

New York: Albany mosque imam convicted of terrorism is deported back to Iraq It’s almost midnight and Americans are losing their first amendment rights to sharia supremacists and the big technology, media and politicians who support them.

Please share this report before it’s too late.

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im kinda concerned about the attitude towards breaks at my new job. the only true breaks they give are lunches and you have to be scheduled 7+ hours to get one, otherwise you dont 'technically' have a break? i asked about it on my first day and the manager said breaks are more of a 'courtesy'???? i tire out fast so ive been asking every shift and while they havent denied me one yet (aside from shortening one) they always sound like its a burden on them? i live in florida btw

State Lunch and Break Law Governing FloridaPosted on April 6, 2016 bySarahRecently, I’ve been reviewing the laws related to lunches, breaks and other work hour issues. I think it is interesting to note that Florida does not have any laws on the books specifically related to this area, except those pertaining to minors. Florida law requires that minors under age 18 must be given an uninterrupted meal or rest period of at least 30 minutes for each four hours they have continuously worked.Although Florida does not have a lunch and break law for those persons 18 and over, there are applicable federal rules for Florida citizens. While Federal Law does not mandate specific breaks or meal periods, it does give guidance as to whether or not an employee should be paid during these times. Short breaks are usually 20 minutes or less, and should be counted as hours worked. Genuine “meal periods” are usually 30 minutes or more, and do not need to be compensated as work time. For this to be the case, however, the worker must be completely relieved of his or her duties during the meal break. If the employee is still required to do any duties (even minor duties such as answering a phone), it can’t be considered a meal or lunch period and must be paid.Federal law also contains other provisions related to employee pay during times of waiting, sleeping and traveling. Whether or not waiting time needs to be considered paid work hours depends on the situation. If an employee is allowed to do something of his or her choosing while waiting for another task to be finished or while waiting at the workplace for his or her services to be called upon, it is generally considered work time. On the other hand, if an employee is waiting to be called upon, but has great freedom to do what he or she wishes while on call (and has plenty of time to respond to the call), it is not generally considered paid work time.When it comes to sleeping time, employees required to be on duty less than 24 hours is considered to be “working” even if he or she is permitted to sleep during some of those hours when not busy. If an employee is on duty more than 24 hours, a sleeping period of no more than eight hours may be deducted from work hours. However, this can only be done if sleeping quarters are provided and at least five hours of uninterrupted sleep may be achieved by the employee.Finally, another issue I find comes up in the area of work hours is the issue of travel time. The general rule of thumb is that time spent in the normal day’s commute to and from work is not considered paid working time. However, if an employee is traveling in the course of a days work, it must be considered paid work time.Complete information on the laws related to lunches, breaks and other pertinent labor issues can be found on the Florida All in One Labor Law Poster. This poster offers all the required postings for both federal and state labor laws.https://www.laborlawcenter.com/education-center/florida-lunch-and-break-law/-Rodney

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Sir Bernard Law: The Legislature completed its 2020 usual session Monday by yielding some of its withhold an eye on over $1.8 billion in federal funds despatched to the disclose to address charges connected to the COVID-19 outbreak. The Senate voted 30-1 to concur in an amendment from Gov. Kay Ivey that allowed disclose exhaust of cash despatched to the disclose under the CARES Act to reimburse public charges connected to the outbreak. Later in the afternoon, the Dwelling voted 73-1 to approve the amendment. The votes represented the climax of a tug-of-war between the governor and the Legislature over the disposal of virtually $1.8 billion in federal funds despatched to the disclose to address coronavirus charges. In the discontinue, Ivey managed to pull lend a hand some authority over the spending. “Our cities, counties and disclose, moreover to places treasure our nursing properties, hospitals, schools and colleges enjoy incurred many official charges due to the COVID-19,” Ivey talked about in an announcement Monday.

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Juneau: An airline has made a care for offer for one other regional carrier whose guardian company declared economic atomize due to the the economic impact of the coronavirus. Alaska Seaplane Services and products LLC says it wants to care for Peninsula Airways Inc. and keep the Southwest Alaska airline’s working certificate, Alaska Public Media reports. Juneau-primarily primarily based Alaska Seaplane Services and products, doing commercial as Alaska Seaplanes, declined comment on the amount of its offer to care for the air carrier certification of Peninsula Airways, veritably called PenAir, from owner RavnAir Neighborhood. RavnAir cited a disruption of industrial brought about by COVID-19 when the corporate launched in early April that it might per chance well possibly end operations, lay off crew and file for Chapter 11 economic atomize protection. RavnAir’s management has tried to valid investment and federal serve to lend a hand the corporate alive, but that’s not life like, Alaska Seaplanes co-owner Ken Craford talked about.

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Tucson: An effort by University of Arizona college students to construct coronavirus files to a Spanish-speaking neighborhood gained financial backing from the U.S. Facilities for Illness Assign an eye on and Prevention. The poster campaign launched by four of the university’s College of Tablets-Tucson college students moreover got city and county crimson meat up, The Arizona Day-to-day Celebrity reports. The student crew guilty for the outreach effort contains Cazandra Zaragoza, Ricardo Reyes, Arturo Martinez and Guadalupe Davila. “We realized there in actual fact weren’t any posters and things in Spanish, and, if there are, they've a mode of textual enlighten material, and it’s not very visible,” Zaragoza talked about. Photos created by Reyes characteristic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo in a clinical mask, a prickly pear cactus warning others to not accumulate too conclude, and saguaro cacti practicing 6 toes of social distancing.

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Shrimp Rock: The disclose is permitting bars to reopen over the next week with original coronavirus safety measures, Gov. Asa Hutchinson talked about Monday, as the disclose’s three casinos resumed operation. Hutchinson launched that bar areas within ingesting places can be allowed to reopen Tuesday, whereas free-standing bars can reopen Can also merely 26. Health officers didn't detail the original safety guidelines for bars but talked about they'd be corresponding to these in set up for ingesting places that were allowed to resume commercial last week. Casinos on the Oaklawn horse park in Sizzling Springs, Southland canines observe in West Memphis and Saracen On line casino Resort in Pine Bluff reopened Monday after the disclose approved the services’ plans for enforcing original social distancing guidelines. Every casino is proscribed to 1-third potential.

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Sacramento: Gov. Gavin Newsom relaxed county reopening criteria Monday, a pass he talked about will enable most of the disclose’s 58 counties to begin permitting eating in ingesting places and varied services. “Final analysis is: Of us can plod at their very possess scurry, and we're empowering our native health directors and county officers that price their native communities and stipulations,” Newsom talked about. Whereas retail might per chance well open for curbside pickup statewide, restrictions on eating in at ingesting places and varied services are soundless in set up statewide. Counties can pass sooner in the occasion that they care for disclose approval. Newsom moreover talked about counties will rapidly be capable of enable browsing in stores and hair salons to reopen. He moreover instructed professional sports might per chance well commence in June with out spectators. He talked about the reopening of churches might per chance well commence within weeks.

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Fort Collins: The disclose now has ample coronavirus testing gives to take a look at anybody with flu-treasure symptoms or any needed crew who work alongside with the public. Gov. Jared Polis launched Monday morning that Colorado now has the testing potential to flee 10,000 assessments per day, meeting the disclose’s arrangement of having the skill to take a look at all symptomatic Coloradans by mid-Can also merely. Previously, the steering became as soon as to care for house and self-isolate whereas you occur to had symptoms until you considerable hospitalization. But now that the disclose has ample gives to ramp up testing, Polis is encouraging anybody with symptoms to be examined. Colorado is soundless testing a long way fewer than potential correct now, Polis talked about. Final week, the day-to-day excessive became as soon as correct above 4,500 assessments. Old safer-at-house phase needs indicated the disclose wanted to be testing 8,500 to 10,000 other folks day-to-day by the discontinue of Can also merely.

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Hartford: Gov. Ned Lamont is getting some crimson meat up from the chief clinical officer at Hartford HealthCare on his resolution to begin reopening the disclose’s economic system Wednesday amid the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Ajay Kumar, who foreign the clinical operations in a arrangement that strategies seven acute care hospitals and bigger than 30,000 health care crew, talked about Monday that whereas there might per chance be never any playbook, the objects he’s studied crimson meat up the governor’s resolution. The disclose plans to begin the unhurried, multistage process of lifting restrictions on companies and actions, in conjunction with permitting restricted out of doors eating at ingesting places. Retail establishments, hair salons, out of doors shows at zoos and museums, out of doors recreation and university analysis packages will moreover be allowed to open with detailed, social distancing restrictions. Kumar cautioned the death toll seemingly will proceed to upward push by about 50 to 60 a day, pushed by situations in nursing properties and assisted residing services.

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Wilmington: Facing bigger than 90,000 preliminary jobless claims for the reason that coronavirus pandemic hit the disclose, officers estimate they'll flee out of unemployment funds across the discontinue of June, when they notion to begin borrowing from the federal executive to pay out advantages. Cherish varied states, Delaware has been draining its unemployment insurance protection belief fund for the length of the pandemic-triggered economic downturn. But not like bigger than half of of states, Delaware didn’t enter the crisis prepared. As an alternative, it’s one among 22 states and territories whose unemployment belief funds weren’t funded to a stage of solvency that the U.S. Department of Labor says is ample to climate a recession. The disclose had conclude to $173 million in its unemployment fund this January. Delaware Secretary of Labor Cerron Cade talked about the methodology the disclose taxes employers has hindered the unemployment fund’s enhance.

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Washington: A veterans service group with a decades­long custom that pulls hundreds of bikers to D.C. every Memorial Day Weekend is organizing a virtual occasion this one year, WUSA-TV reports. Rolling Thunder, an annual motorcycle demonstration that starts on the Pentagon and ends on the Nationwide Mall, ended after 32 years last spring over charges and logistics. The trip served as a boom demonstration about accountability from the federal executive on missing U.S. service contributors and raised consciousness about the suicide epidemic among veterans. AMVETS, a national group that enhances the lifestyles of veterans, has renamed the occasion Rolling to Assign in mind. On Sunday, riders are challenged to trip 22 miles by their very possess communities to inform crimson meat up and search files from action for the critical points facing veterans.

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Key West: The Florida Keys will reopen to tourists June 1, bigger than two months after the island chain closed to company to lower the unfold of the coronavirus. Checkpoints that barred company from coming into the Florida Keys can be eradicated subsequent month, and accommodations and varied lodging establishments, in conjunction with campgrounds and plod back and forth rentals, will moreover be allowed to reopen at 50% occupancy, Monroe County Emergency Management talked about in an announcement Sunday. These companies must implement sanitation stations and put together the American Hotel and Lodging Association’s cleaning pointers for COVID-19, the observation talked about. Airport screenings and bus restrictions will moreover be lifted in June. The resolution to reopen comes amid the low coronavirus infection fee in the Keys, the Miami Herald reports. As of Sunday, Monroe County had 100 sure coronavirus situations and three deaths.

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Atlanta: Georgians were greeted with original procedures Monday as they participated in the first day of in-person early vote casting for the disclose’s June 9 primaries with the coronavirus pandemic soundless raging. Voters were asked to wait in their vehicle till their neighborhood is called, to face on painted circles to steer determined of getting too conclude to varied voters in line and to position on a mask. They were moreover told all surfaces touched would be sanitized. In metro Atlanta’s Cobb County, Election Director Janine Eveler talked about original procedures and pointers enjoy “slowed things down considerably, and other folks are having to wait.” She talked about voters confronted wait instances of larger than an hour Monday morning. Eveler moreover talked about an ongoing shortage of pollcrew methodology the county is down to a single early vote casting location, when most steadily two are in operation for early vote casting’s first week. “We’re soundless encouraging other folks to put together for an absentee ballot,” she talked about.

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Honolulu: The disclose’s absolute most sensible public pension fund suffered its worst quarterly loss in bigger than 17 years due to the the economic impact of the coronavirus. The disclose Workers’ Retirement Machine investments fell 9.5%, The Honolulu Celebrity-Advertiser reports. The fund’s property, which encompass contributions and distributions, shrank by virtually $1.8 billion, to $16.2 billion, in step with a document by investment adviser Meketa Investment Neighborhood. The lower became as soon as the absolute most sensible proportion tumble for investments for the reason that third quarter of 2002 and the fourth-absolute most sensible decline for the reason that third quarter of 1990. The pension fund gives retirement, disability and survivor advantages. Machine Govt Director Thom Williams talked about the fund’s virtually 126,000 relieve recipients attain favor to anguish about receiving money they earned. “Our contributors and beneficiaries face totally no dangers,” Williams talked about.

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Boise: Self-employed residents can be capable of tap into the $300 million in grant money the disclose has position aside to serve minute companies financially harmed by the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Brad Shrimp launched Monday. The Republican governor talked about the disclose will plan conclude purposes origin Can also merely 27 for the $7,500 grants. Folk must construct at least 50% of their income from their self-employed work to qualify. “Rising this useful resource to self-employed commercial owners might per chance well soundless serve them accumulate lend a hand on their toes and lend a hand one of the predominant crucial financial loss brought about by this unexpected and unwelcome virus,” Shrimp talked about in an announcement. About 2,600 companies with up to 19 workers utilized for grants of $10,000 last week, adding up to about $26 million. Agencies with up to 50 workers are making exhaust of this week.

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Chicago: Officials blamed a “glitch” in the disclose’s original online arrangement for processing unemployment advantages for hasty making the deepest files of some applicants public. An Illinois Department of Employment Security online page showed claimants’ Social Security numbers and varied crucial points, in step with WBEZ. Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s spokeswoman Jordan Abudayyeh characterized it as a “glitch.” The records belonged to objective contractors, who grew to change into eligible for jobless serve this one year. The agency talked about Sunday in an announcement that an evaluation showed one claimant became as soon as capable of “inadvertently accumulate admission to deepest identifying files of a restricted sequence of claimants.” After the claimant notified the department, the anguish became as soon as corrected “within an hour.” Company officers talked about they'd commence the outcomes of an investigation and command anybody affected.

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Indianapolis: The disclose will exhaust virtually $1 million in federal funds to pay for the distribution of the opioid reversal drug naloxone to be triumphant in Hoosiers who're at likelihood of overdose, officers talked about Monday. Overdose Lifeline Inc., an Indiana nonprofit dedicated to serving to contributors, households and communities plagued by substance exhaust, will distribute 25,000 doses of naloxone, or Narcan, to first responders, households, chums and others who're inclined to be the first on the scene if any individual overdoses, the set up of job of Gov. Eric Holcomb and the Family and Social Provider Administration launched. Gain entry to to naloxone remains restricted in some communities, officers talked about. “In the face of COVID-19, it’s a long way more crucial that we provide property and crimson meat up for folks with substance exhaust considerations,” Holcomb talked about. “Making potentially lifesaving therapies more accessible is one among the head methods we can address this crisis.”

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Des Moines: Advocates are elevating money for the burial of a 36-one year-extinct Congolese refugee who died of the coronavirus this month in the city. Embarc Iowa, a refugee services group, talked about Wiuca Iddi Wiuca died Can also merely 4 after a surprising sickness and two weeks in the sanatorium. The neighborhood talked about advocates favor to care for hundreds of bucks to enjoy Wiuca buried this week at an Ankeny cemetery. “Old burial in the Congolese neighborhood is amazingly crucial. There just is just not such a thing as a varied option; for the reason that physique came from the soil, it's miles going to also soundless be returned,” the neighborhood talked about. Wiuca leaves in the lend a hand of two grownup siblings who, treasure him, were resettled to Des Moines last one year from a refugee camp in Tanzania. They'd fled war in Congo in 1996. Wiuca’s siblings were struggling to pay their rent and charges and were off work, Embarc Iowa talked about.

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Mission: Barbershops, hair salons, nail salons, tattoo parlors, tanning salons, gyms and fitness services began to reopen Monday in parts of Kansas, even as the virus claimed one other lifestyles on the disclose’s absolute most sensible prison. Salons soundless must plan conclude clients by appointment simplest, whereas gyms and fitness services won’t be allowed to enjoy neighborhood lessons or exhaust their locker rooms for the leisure varied than lavatory services. Native officers can anguish stricter guidelines, alternatively. Gov. Laura Kelly already had allowed “nonessential” retail stores to reopen and ingesting places to resume dine-in services Can also merely 4, with some restrictions. But limits on public gatherings of 10 or fewer other folks will remain in set up, in desire to being increased to 30 on Monday, as originally deliberate, amid considerations that the unfold of the contemporary coronavirus just is just not but lowering.

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Winchester: Red River Gorge and varied recreational areas in the Daniel Boone Nationwide Wooded arena are position to reopen subsequent month, the U.S. Wooded arena Provider talked about. Plans demand many trails, picnic areas and shooting ranges to open June 3 and campgrounds to open June 11, in step with an announcement from the agency, files stores document. Officials always video display the anguish with the coronavirus and are reopening the usage of a “disclose-by-disclose manner, in conjunction with overview of facility cleanliness, repairs disclose, and health and safety of recreation areas,” in step with the observation. Daniel Boone Nationwide Wooded arena Supervisor Dan Olsen talked about they're “approaching reopening with safety in mind.” Dates might per chance well alternate reckoning on situations, and company might per chance well soundless take a look at the Daniel Boone Nationwide Wooded arena’s online page before touring to any plod back and forth space.

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Baton Rouge: The disclose has been granted federal authority to serve feed bigger than 611,000 college students for the length of the coronavirus pandemic. The disclose launched Friday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the OK to construct the lend a hand for households of children in kindergarten by 12th grade who most steadily accumulate free or decreased-be aware college meals. Insist public schools closed March 16. A files commence from the disclose says native college methods will command households they'll also very neatly be eligible for this device veritably called P-EBT. These households can put together online. The utility slice-off date is June 7. Once the kid’s files is verified, the disclose household services department will mail a P-EBT debit card loaded with $285 per baby. Recipients will moreover receive instructions for the usage of the cards that might per chance also be broken-down to care for meals objects eligible under the federal Supplemental Weight loss blueprint Support Program at stores that settle for SNAP cards.

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Augusta: Hungry Mainers can exercise at ingesting places and luxuriate in a seat in 12 of the disclose’s 16 counties, where ingesting places were allowed to reopen Monday to dine-in clients. Reopening dates for ingesting places were moved up from June 1 in counties which enjoy had fewer situations of the coronavirus. These ingesting places which might per chance well be reopening enjoy restricted seating to construct particular social distancing might per chance well even be maintained and luxuriate in to plan conclude extra steps by methodology of sanitizing. Some ingesting places talked about they'd give clients the option of the usage of plastic utensils and plastic or paper drinking cups. Remote camps moreover to wearing camps, which offer accumulate admission to to wasteland actions corresponding to wanting or fishing, were moreover allowed to open Monday to Maine residents, alongside with out-of-disclose company who enjoy completed a 14-day quarantine. The out-of-disclose quarantine has been a source of frustration for Maine’s tourism industry. Gov. Janet Mills has talked about the disclose is having a peer at conceivable picks.

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Baltimore: The disclose’s absolute most sensible gas and electrical utility proposed to regulators this week a notion to freeze clients’ defective charges for the next two years and then elevate them by about 8% in 2023 to be capable to construct economic reduction to these feeling the results of the coronavirus pandemic. The proposed modifications by Baltimore Gasoline & Electric Co. would consequence in an develop of $12.87 on the typical customer’s month-to-month invoice in 2023, the Baltimore Solar reports. The utility’s estimates inform the typical customer’s invoice after the deliberate develop will soundless be bigger than 20% lower than in 2008. The newspaper reported the utility is effectively entrance-loading long-term tax advantages that this might per chance well receive over a three-decade duration. The company initiatives the dawdle freeze can be aware bigger than $360 million. Regulators are anticipated to anguish a ruling in December.

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Boston: Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday outlined a phased-in manner to step by step restart the disclose’s economic system, which became as soon as largely shuttered virtually two months ago in the battle in opposition to the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed virtually 5,800 lives in Massachusetts. In the first phase, which began Monday, manufacturing and construction can be allowed to reopen equipped they put together steering and standards meant to offer protection to in opposition to the unfold of the virus. Properties of admire will moreover be allowed to resume services in the occasion that they will moreover put together social distancing steering. Open air services are encouraged. On Can also merely 25, lab and set up of job spaces can reopen, moreover to some deepest services corresponding to hair salons, pet grooming and vehicle washes. Retail commercial can be allowed to attain a long way away success and curbside pickup. On June 1, some set up of job house can reopen in Boston. Some recreation will moreover be allowed to reopen Can also merely 25, in conjunction with parks; force-in theaters; some athletic fields and courts; most fishing, wanting, and boating; and out of doors gardens, zoos and reserves.

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Lansing: Restaurants, bars and varied retail companies can reopen in a lot of northern Michigan starting Friday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer launched Monday – a key step for the tourism-dependent disclose before the Memorial Day weekend and summer season season. Social gatherings of up to 10 other folks can be allowed across the mountainous accumulate 22 situation, too. Bars and ingesting places, which enjoy simplest been capable of give pickup and transport because of coronavirus restrictions, must restrict potential to 50%. Groups must care for 6 toes apart, and servers must position on face coverings. Reputation of work commercial can resume if work can't be conducted remotely. The governor’s most modern coronavirus care for-at-house expose soundless retains meals and drink establishments off limits to dine-in clients in 51 counties with 93% of the disclose’s 10 million other folks. Plenty of places of public lodging corresponding to movie theaters, gyms and hair salons remain closed statewide, at least by Can also merely 28. Whitmer called the partial reopening of northern Michigan a “giant step” but urged other folks to not “plod rushing out.”

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St. Paul: A judge has blocked a businessman from reopening his chain of bars and ingesting places in violation of a disclose expose to stay closed to on-disclose clients to unhurried the unfold of the coronavirus. Stearns County Steal William Cashman issued the non permanent restraining expose Monday sought by Minnesota Attorney Total Keith Ellison. Shady’s owner Kris Schiffler had deliberate to open his Albany location Monday. But after the judge issued the expose, Schiffler told a crowd of supporters Monday that he wouldn’t be opening for commercial, the Celebrity Tribune reports. In his expose, the judge called the COVID-19 pandemic “one among the finest public health emergencies Minnesota has persevered in most modern history.” He position a court docket hearing for Friday. Gov. Tim Walz has position June 1 as the earliest date for bars and ingesting places to reopen. Ellison’s lawsuit Sunday became as soon as met with criticism from Dwelling Republicans who're defending Schiffler.

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Jackson: Gov. Tate Reeves’ “safer at house” expose to unhurried the unfold of the original coronavirus expired Monday morning. Some companies are soundless easing into reopening with sanitation and social distancing restrictions in set up. Tattoo parlors were allowed to reopen over the weekend, and casinos are making prepared to begin reopening Thursday. Many excessive schools were holding graduation ceremonies with videos of particular person college students receiving their diplomas, steadily edited together to inform your total graduating class. Plenty of excessive schools are planning ceremonies in about a weeks. The “safer at house” expose became as soon as imagined to restrict other folks’s bodily interactions. Republican Reeves talked about last week that he believes the expose had finished its arrangement of limiting the unfold of the virus ample to discontinue the health care arrangement from being overwhelmed. He is soundless suggesting that folks which might per chance well be medically weak might per chance well soundless remain house.

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Clayton: The unhurried reopening of the disclose’s economic system persisted Monday, as ingesting places and most nonessential companies began working in St. Louis County and the city of St. Louis, but residents were urged to lend a hand following safety pointers to unhurried the unfold of the coronavirus. St. Louis County Govt Sam Web page talked about the reopening of companies might per chance well soundless not be considered as a victory because too many contributors enjoy died and too many households are suffering due to the the pandemic. Health officers voice 335 other folks enjoy died from COVID-19 in St. Louis County. “So we can not let this unhurried and considerate reopening be checked out as a return to well-liked. It’s in actual fact a long way from it,” Web page talked about. Most Missouri companies were allowed to reopen Can also merely 4, when Republican Gov. Mike Parson’s care for-at-house expose expired. But Web page and St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, both Democrats, prolonged their orders by Sunday in the anxious-hit disclose.

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Bozeman: Montana Insist University launched the college’s tumble semester will commence two weeks earlier than well-liked and discontinue before Thanksgiving in an strive and restrict the unfold of the coronavirus on campus. University President Waded Cruzado launched the scheduling update in an email Friday, The Day-to-day Narrative reports. Classes are scheduled to begin in Bozeman on Aug. 17, whereas final exams can be completed Nov. 25. The spring semester is scheduled to begin Jan. 11 and produce Can also merely 10. The prolonged chilly climate fracture might per chance well enable the university to give a chilly climate session with some online lessons, Cruzado talked about. The original schedule limits the necessity for faculty students, college and crew to scurry for the length of the Thanksgiving vacation and then return to campus, which might per chance well facilitate the unfold of the coronavirus, Cruzado talked about. It moreover reduces the opportunity of the flu and COVID-19 circulating concurrently.

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Omaha: Extra situations of the original coronavirus were confirmed at a western Omaha nursing house that reported scores of situations last week, health officers talked about. Two more residents and five more crew contributors of Lifestyles Care Heart of Elkhorn enjoy examined sure for COVID-19 in most modern days, the Omaha World-Herald reports. The original situations were reported Sunday. The center’s govt director, Michelle Yosick, talked about residents who enjoy examined sure were isolated and are receiving care. Final week, officers reported that 68 situations of the virus had been confirmed among residents and crew on the nursing facility in Omaha’s Elkhorn neighborhood. The disclose’s online coronavirus tracker showed no original COVID-19 deaths were reported Sunday, but 128 original situations were confirmed across the disclose.

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Las Vegas: Health officers in the city talked about Monday that they’ve increased the sequence of neighborhood disease investigators and luxuriate in adopted an automatic arrangement the usage of textual enlighten material and email messages to enlighten other folks that might per chance also enjoy had contact with other folks which enjoy examined sure for the original coronavirus. Bigger than 60 investigators are actually contact tracing bigger than 5,400 reported situations of COVID-19 in and spherical Las Vegas, talked about Dr. Michael Johnson, neighborhood health chief on the Southern Nevada Health District. Officials voice instant identification of alternative folks uncovered to the virus can serve discontinue the unfold of the contagious respiratory sickness. When conclude contacts are known, health officers give other folks files about self-quarantining and a possibility to signal up in the district’s confidential symptom monitoring cell app. If any individual reports signs or symptoms of sickness, the district can organize for testing.

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Concord: Restaurants in the disclose were allowed to begin serving clients for out of doors eating Monday, and Jim Tanner and Steve Duprey might per chance well were the first to plan conclude unprejudiced correct thing about it. They were sitting out of doors The Works Cafe in Concord with their espresso by 6: 02 a.m., two minutes after it opened. For several years, they’ve been among a neighborhood of chums who meet on the cafe every weekday morning. For the reason that governor issued the care for-at-house expose, Tanner and Duprey enjoy altered the custom – getting espresso to head and chatting out of doors for a brief time, standing 10 toes apart. “Recently became as soon as nice because we seen the tables out and opinion, ‘Hiya, we can take a seat right here and profit from of the good climate,’ ” talked about Tanner, a retired IBM gross sales govt who has skipped over the morning gatherings. Restaurants, which previously had been restricted to takeout and transport, can now serve diners out of doors, with tables 6 toes apart. Group who work straight with clients must build on masks, and clients are asked to position on them moreover to they enter and exit the property, moreover to in the occasion that they plod inner to exhaust restrooms.

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Bellmawr: A gymnasium reopened for commercial early Monday, defying a disclose expose that shut down nonessential companies to serve stem the unfold of the coronavirus. Of us began gathering out of doors the Atilis Gym in Bellmawr several hours before it reopened at 8 a.m. The owners enjoy talked about the resolution to resume operations on the contributors-simplest facility became as soon as not about financial construct but reasonably a quiz constitutional rights. “We in actual fact have faith in that if we don’t attain this, in the discontinue, we can enjoy zero rights and no voice in what happens,” co-owner Frank Trumbetti talked about in a video posted on the gymnasium’s Facebook page. Trumbetti has talked about he not too long ago lost a loved one to the coronavirus. Dozens of alternative folks came out to inform their crimson meat up for the gymnasium, with many holding signs critical of Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and others waving American flags. Ideal some were carrying face coverings, and most other folks tightly clustered together on the sidewalk and parking accumulate 22 situation in entrance of the gymnasium.

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Santa Fe: The New Mexico Attorney Total’s Reputation of work talked about Monday that it’s focused on a requirement by a disclose lawmaker to peer into an Albuquerque rehabilitation center as piece of the agency’s ongoing overview of health and safety considerations at nursing properties and varied long-term care services. The set up of job got a requirement Friday from disclose Derive. Gregg Schmedes to study the eviction of senior residents with disabilities at Canyon Transitional Rehabilitation Heart to construct room for coronavirus patients. The Tijeras Republican called the compelled pass unconscionable and indefensible. “Evicting these senior electorate from their long-term care facility is one other example of the disclose of New Mexico inappropriately rationing health care,” he wrote in a letter to Democrat Attorney Total Hector Balderas. All 54 patients on the rehab center were compelled out in April as piece of an settlement with disclose health officers to take in coronavirus patients as rapidly as conceivable.

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New York: Town is ramping up its skill to take a look at for the coronavirus, with testing accessible at bigger than 150 sites citywide and domestically made take a look at kits now in exhaust at city-flee health clinics, Mayor Bill de Blasio talked about Monday. The partnership between the Albert Einstein College of Tablets and native companies Print Parts and Collab can be producing 60,000 take a look at kits weekly by the week of June 1, de Blasio talked about, adding: “We’ll withhold going as a long way as we've to head to be sure that every New Yorker who wants a take a look at gets one.” De Blasio launched Sunday that urgent care supplier CityMD would offer assessments for the virus at its 123 locations, elevating the sequence of take a look at sites in the city to bigger than 150. The mayor talked about the city is persevering with to rent public health crew to hint the contacts of alternative folks that take a look at sure for COVID-19. “All of these objects are coming together to give us the massive, tough take a look at and hint program we've to push lend a hand this disease,” he talked about.

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Concord: The disclose Department of Public Security launched Saturday that every person juveniles held on the Stonewall Jackson Early life Development Heart can be examined for COVID-19 after a crew member reported testing sure for the coronavirus a day earlier. The agency talked about in an announcement that the worker of the juvenile correctional facility in Concord has been off work since Can also merely 10 after notifying management a pair of doable publicity to the virus. Facility director Peter Brown talked about no juveniles on the skill enjoy shown symptoms connected with COVID-19. Brown talked about. children in obvious housing objects are being monitored twice a day for fever and varied symptoms. The department talked about all crew contributors believed to enjoy had conclude contact with the sick worker can be examined and quarantined. Plenty of crew contributors were moreover equipped the opportunity to be examined.

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Bismarck: Insist health officers on Monday reported 31 original situations of COVID-19, with all but five being confirmed in the disclose’s most populous county. Cass County, which remains the epicenter of the disclose’s coronavirus outbreak, had 26 situations on Monday, bringing the county’s total to 1,173. Statewide, there were 1,931 confirmed situations as of Monday. The sequence of patients hospitalized became as soon as 32 on Monday, up two from the day prior to this. One original death became as soon as reported Monday, bringing the statewide total to 44. Health officers talked about the victim became as soon as Ramsey County girl in her 90s with underlying medical conditions. The true sequence of infections is considered a long way increased because many contributors haven't been examined, and analysis counsel other folks might per chance well even be contaminated with out feeling sick.

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Columbus: Gov. Mike DeWine talked about officers will attain “no subject we've to attain” to put in force social distancing and varied maintaining measures if bars and ingesting places fail to restrain crowds as the disclose eases coronavirus measures. DeWine talked about he had viewed images of a packed Columbus restaurant-bar over the weekend. “The valid files is that the possession, other folks running the bar, looked as if it might per chance well possibly accumulate withhold an eye on of it last night,” he talked about Sunday on CNN’s “Insist of the Union.” “We didn’t enjoy to anguish any citations,” he talked about, adding that one other Columbus bar had been cited. A Columbus Public Health spokeswoman told the Columbus Dispatch, alternatively, that repeated warnings were issued Saturday about overcrowding on the identical restaurant-bar, and a criticism became as soon as referred to the city attorney. “Finally, it’s going to reach lend a hand to Ohioans doing what Ohioans enjoy accomplished for the last two months, and that is, by and neatly-organized, accomplished exactly what they'll also soundless attain, strive and lend a hand the gap,” DeWine talked about.

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Oklahoma Metropolis: Health officers reported no original deaths and 88 original sure situations of COVID-19 in the disclose Monday, most of them connected to a hog processing plant in Guymon. The Department of Health talked about 64% of its original sure situations were in Texas County in the Oklahoma Panhandle, where Seaboard Farms employs about 2,700 crew on the plant. The department and the U.S. Facilities for Illness Assign an eye on and Prevention were working with native health officers to develop testing and contract tracing to enjoy and mitigate the unfold of the virus in the disclose. As of Monday, there were virtually 5,400 confirmed sure situations of COVID-19 in Oklahoma, even though the actual sequence of these contaminated is considered a lot increased. A total of 288 other folks enjoy died from COVID-19 in Oklahoma, virtually half of of whom were residents of nursing properties or long-term care services.

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Portland: Hospitals can be equipped with an experimental drug that has shown some promise treating outrageous situations of COVID-19, disclose health officers talked about Sunday. The disclose’s first shipments of remdesivir will provide ample doses to treat 80 COVID-19 patients for 10 days – ample to treat all hospitalized patients who met the clinical criteria for the usage of the drug as of Saturday, the Oregon Health Authority talked about Sunday. Most modern early results for the drug instructed it's miles going to also serve patients accumulate better from the coronavirus sooner, even though longer-term files is soundless considerable to substantiate any relieve. It has not been formally approved by the Meals and Drug Administration but might per chance well even be broken-down under a federally issued Emergency Utilize Authorization. The health authority just is just not taking a position on whether or not it's miles going to also soundless be broken-down, leaving that resolution up to clinical doctors and their patients. The disclose expects to accumulate more doses later but does not know when or how a lot this might per chance well receive.

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Harrisburg: The disclose’s death toll from the COVID-19 outbreak has handed 4,500, and about 63,000 other folks were contaminated, the Health Department talked about Monday. Officials added 87 deaths to the tally, after 61 were launched Saturday and 15 on Sunday. Bigger than 3,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in Pennsylvania were residents of nursing properties or deepest care services. Gov. Tom Wolf has begun stress-free social distancing and commercial closure pointers, with bigger than half of of the disclose’s 67 counties currently in the “yellow” zone that allows some companies to characteristic. Twelve more counties are scheduled to be reclassified as yellow on Friday. The sequence of infections is considered a long way increased than the disclose’s confirmed case depend because many contributors haven't been examined, and analysis counsel other folks might per chance well even be contaminated with out feeling sick.

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Windfall: Restaurants in the disclose are allowed to give some out of doors eating starting Monday, but some eateries are taking a wait-and-peer manner. Under Gov. Gina Raimondo’s notion to restart the economic system for the length of the coronavirus pandemic, restaurant potential is proscribed to no bigger than 20 seated tables at any given time; occasions are restricted to a most of 5 other folks; tables might per chance well soundless be at least 8 toes apart; and reservations are required. Restaurants can moreover proceed to give takeout, transport and force-by service. Kevin Gaudreau, owner of KG Kitchen Bar in Windfall, told WPRI-TV he is holding off for now and plans to lend a hand his commercial closed. He talked about he wants to wait about a weeks to peer how out of doors eating plays out, and he doesn’t are fervent to invest in reopening, simplest to enjoy to conclude all over again later.

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Columbia: Barbershops, gyms, spas, tattoo parlors and varied conclude-contact companies were allowed by Gov. Henry McMaster to reopen for the first time in virtually seven weeks Monday. There became as soon as a surge of shaggy clients. Apps for haircut chains treasure Sports actions Clips and Huge Clips listed waits of at least two or three hours, with some backlogged for bigger than seven hours. U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham became as soon as one among the first clients at his native Huge Clips. The Republican posted before-and-after videos on Twitter. He had a mask placing under his chin before he went inner but didn’t build on it as he later spoke from the salon chair under his mask-carrying stylist. “I feel treasure a original man. Thanks Henry McMaster,” Graham talked about.

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Mercurial Metropolis: Hotel and campground operators in the Unlit Hills voice the past couple of months were rough on commercial due to the coronavirus outbreak, but they’re encouraged that tourists are making reservations for summer season scurry. Hospitality companies are making prepared for company with extra cleaning protocols and safety practices. Visit Mercurial Metropolis CEO Julie Schmitz Jensen told the Mercurial Metropolis Journal that companies are aware of the pointers from the Facilities for Illness Assign an eye on and Prevention. She talked about this might per chance well not be a popular vacationer season with safety measures taken. For Cambria Suites, on Interstate 90 with easy accumulate admission to to Mount Rushmore and the Unlit Hills, most modern commercial from commercial truckers and a neighborhood of Nationwide Guard infantrymen has been a boon. After working with a “skeleton crew” for about a weeks, most of the crew has been capable of reach lend a hand to work.

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Nashville: A pair were in critical care after a person attacked them with a machete because he became as soon as livid about shutdowns that were taking set up for the length of the coronavirus pandemic, police talked about. Kelvin D. Edwards attacked Kevin Craft, 55, and his accomplice, Leanne Craft, 50, on Sunday afternoon in a Public Storage in the city, the Metro Nashville Police Department talked about. Edwards took the machete from his bin on the storage facility and persisted striking the couple even after they were bleeding on the bottom, police talked about. The victims were transported to a sanatorium after officers who spoke back to the scene broken-down more than one tourniquets to manipulate their bleeding. Police talked about they chanced on Edwards, 35, alongside with his hands raised in give up. Investigators talked about Edwards, who is homeless, told them he attacked the couple to inform his infuriate about the coronavirus shutdowns and his incapacity to accumulate into Rescue Mission, an group that serves homeless other folks.

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Corpus Christi: College districts can reopen as rapidly as June 1 for in-person summer season college lessons in the occasion that they lend a hand “safe distancing” and health protocols, Gov. Greg Abbott talked about for the length of his statewide update Monday. Abbott previously ordered schools to conclude for the remainder of the 2019-20 college one year amid the coronavirus pandemic. Corpus Christi Just College District Superintendent Roland Hernandez told the Caller-Events last week that the district deliberate to give summer season college remotely in June and July.

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St. George: Utah’s coronavirus response has moved a lot of the disclose to the low-likelihood “yellow” phase, but a native physician says that doesn’t mean it’s safe to discontinue carrying masks or discontinue social distancing measures. Intermountain Dixie Regional Scientific Director Patrick Carroll talked about for the length of a press conference last week that he believes Washington County might per chance well soundless care for on the realistic-likelihood “orange” stage. His comments came two days before Gov. Gary Herbert’s Thursday announcement that a majority of the disclose can be in the low-likelihood “yellow” phase of the coronavirus outbreak. The disclose has been at “orange” since Can also merely 1. Carroll talked about he thinks there’s a misconception in the county that going from “orange” to “yellow” would mean it might per chance well possibly no longer be considerable to position on masks or put together social distancing. “In truth, that’s not the case,” he talked about. “Once we plod from orange to yellow ... these suggestions care for the identical.”

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Montpelier: The disclose persisted its unhurried reopening from the coronavirus pandemic Monday as clients were allowed into retail stores for the first time for the reason that lockdown began in March, with restrictions on potential and the necessity to lend a hand other folks apart. At Shaw’s Total Retailer in Stowe, Supervisor Alex Stevens talked about Monday afternoon commercial on the establishment that describes itself “as the retailer with most the leisure” became as soon as valid but not overwhelming. “We're contented to enjoy other folks in the retailer,” Stevens talked about, noting the clients complied with their requirement for facial coverings. “Of us were very grateful that we're open.” They didn’t enjoy any effort holding occupancy to the most of no bigger than 25% of potential, but even in well-liked years it’s not but the busy time, he talked about. “If this became as soon as June 15, we’d potentially would enjoy to enjoy any individual standing there counting,” Stevens talked about.

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Norfolk: Officials enjoy canceled the annual Chincoteague Island Pony Swim and connected actions due to the the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Firm moreover launched Monday that its carnival and pony penning birthday party, scheduled for July 2, are moreover canceled for this one year. It’s the first time the pony penning has been canceled since World Battle II, the fireplace company talked about in a files commence. Alex Tucker, president of the volunteer fire company, talked about in an announcement that with restrictions installed in phases to discontinue the unfold of coronavirus, the cancellation became as soon as “the most efficient logical resolution to construct.” The swim would enjoy marked the 95th one year. The Chincoteague online page favorite that the last time the pony penning became as soon as canceled became as soon as for the length of World Battle II.

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Spokane: A neighborhood has rebuilt a memorial for victims of the coronavirus pandemic after it became as soon as vandalized by protesters Friday. KREM-TV reports 30 other folks enjoy died among 396 confirmed situations of coronavirus in Spokane County for the reason that outbreak began. Stronger Together Spokane, a neighborhood that works to oppose non secular and political extremism, helped fetch crosses for COVID-19 victims at Metropolis Hall in early Can also merely. Tom Robinson, a member of the neighborhood, rebuilt the memorial Saturday. The neighborhood posted a video to Facebook that shows contributors of the Proud Boys, who attended the boom in crimson meat up of reopening native companies in defiance of Gov. Jay Inslee’s care for-house expose, taking credit for vandalizing the memorial. The Proud Boys are designated as a detest neighborhood by the Southern Poverty Law Heart, despite the indisputable truth that they adamantly command connection to the “alt-correct.”

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Charleston: Gov. Jim Justice on Monday expanded his notion to care for coronavirus restrictions whereas acknowledging that situations will seemingly upward push as the economic system reopens. The Republican governor has added indoor malls to the rising record of companies position to resume operations this week, announcing it made sense to attain so because giant field stores are moreover reopening. Justice has warned that the virus might per chance well devastate West Virginia, with the disclose’s excessive numbers of senior electorate and other folks with underlying health considerations. He talked about health officers will spring up on the peer of any original outbreaks as he admitted that a spike looms as reopenings proceed. “There’s going to be considerations. This disease is right here. We enjoy now purchased to observe out, and whereas you occur to will correct please be neatly-organized careful in what you attain, we’ll be exquisite,” he talked about, later mentioning Texas as a disclose where situations are rising as restrictions were eradicated.

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Madison: Gov. Tony Evers talked about Monday that he’s given up attempting to push by any more statewide mandates to take a look at out to unhurried the unfold of the coronavirus because he thinks rival Republicans would by no methodology enable any restrictions after the disclose Supreme Court erased his care for-at-house expose. Minutes after his administration scrapped plans for a original emergency rule, Evers told newshounds for the length of a teleconference that drafting such guidelines would be a ruin of time given the GOP opposition. His stance leaves native health officers on their very possess as they wrestle with whether or not and the arrangement in which one can aid social distancing mandates. “The Republicans made it very determined they don’t enlighten a pair of statewide manner is the correct methodology to head at this slice-off date,” Evers talked about. “It doesn’t construct a mode of sense spending a mode of time doing something each person knows isn’t going to establish success.”

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Cheyenne: The first outbreak of the coronavirus at a nursing house in the disclose has contaminated at least 9 other folks, the Department of Health talked about Sunday. Thus a long way, five workers and four residents on the Worland Healthcare and Rehabilitation were chanced on to enjoy COVID-19, with most of the situations confirmed by laboratory testing. Extra take a look at results were pending, but officers have faith in the total residents and workers on the skill were examined, department spokeswoman Kim Deti talked about. No one has died, she talked about. The testing began after crew contributors grew to change into sick and sought sanatorium treatment. But it is just not determined how the virus became as soon as launched into the skill, the department talked about in a observation. Insist health department crew will seemingly check with the skill to take a look at the anguish, interview patients and crew and to conduct more testing. Company and nonessential crew are restricted in Wyoming’s nursing properties due to the the pandemic.

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Dred Scott aka Darth Vader Who Enslaved The Masses 

“The  Congress", Black Aboriginal Preamble Posterity Sovereign Government of The United States of North America, in the Family of Nations,  included  in  the  Treaty/Contract that  the  Governors  of  the Colonies  agree to terminate White Slavery by 1807/1808.  See, e.g., Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1,  of the Constitution of The United States. Also see, https://www.slideshare.net/ernestrauthschild/a-declaration-50969989, of the “Authentic” A Declaration of July 4th, 1776 (being falsify as the “Declaration of Independence”).  See, e.g.,  Penhallow vs. Doane, 1 L.Ed 507, 3 Dall at page 75: “ The style of the confederation was changed from “United Colonies” to “United States” on September 16th 1776”.    

Nevertheless, during the period of the Northwest- Ordinance of 1787, Africans from Africa {African Nativity] were set free, and the 0riginal Article 13, Section 12 states:

"The traffic  in Slaves WITH AFRICA is hereby forever prohibited  on pain  of death  and  the forfeiture of all rights and property of persons engaged therein:  and the descendants of Africans shall not be Citizens" (of the Federal Corporation United States).  A type of freedom for Africans is also found in Sec. B of the same amendment/article:

"Involuntary Servitude (of Africans) except for crime, shall not be permanently established within the District … Persons held to Service or Labor for life, shall not be denied" the Sojourn. 

Most importantly, Dred Scott vs. Sandford was decided May 12, 1856 thereafter the enactment of the 14th Amendment dated on the 28th day of July, 1868.  Therefore, the question to so-called African-American Attorneys, since naturalization was extended repeatedly by Treaty and acts of Congress to Indians and Negroes, See, e.g., Treaty of Choctaws, Article 14, 20th September, 1830; Treaty with the Cherokees, 12th Article , Vol V, U.S. Laws, 647; Treaties of 1803 for Louisiana, 1819 for Florida, 1847 for California, and if the African Nativity were free per stated above, which “United States” were the aforementioned citizens of before the Dred Scott and the 14th Amendment?

Well, one must view the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the matter of Harcourt v. Gaillard, 6 L.Ed 216, 12 Wheat at 523: “There was no territory within the (original) United States.  Also see, Dred Scott vs. Sanford, 4 Cranch at 212: “Original United States”. Also see, Kansa vs. Marsh, 548 U.S. 163, 165 L.Ed 2d 429, note 1: “The original Constitution contained few guarantees of individual rights against the states, and in a clash of governmental authority there was a small risk that the state courts would erroneously side with the new Federal Government”, Alden vs. Maine, 527 US 706: “Sovereign Immunity drives not from the Eleventh Amendment but from the structure of the “original Constitution”; McCreary County vs. ACLU, 545 US at page 872: “and it is no less baffling to leave out the “original Constitution” of 1787 while quoting the 1215 Magna Carta.”

Further, An Act adopted by the first Congress on the 26th day of March, 1790 made “Free White Persons” only eligible for citizenship. See, 1 Stat 103, 1 C3. However,  there is and always have been a legal difference between (1) a "White person" and (2) a "Free White person":

(1) White Persons. “..., members of the White or Caucasian race, as distinct from the black, red, yellow and brown races". See, e.g., Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th Ed., P. 1769.

(2) Free White Person. “... European Jews … intermixed ... Celtic … Iberians … mixed Latin Celtic- Iberians, and Moorish inhabitants of Spain and Portugal, the Mixed Greeks ... Phoenicians, and North African inhabitants of Sicily.  IT DOES NOT MEAN CAUCASIAN RACE …” Black’s Law Dictionary, 4th  Ed. P. 792.

The 14th Amendment did not alter the status of free white persons, as previously existing”. See, e.g., Virginia vs. Rives, 100 U.S. 313, 3 Am Crim Rep 524; United States vs. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 674, 42 Led 899, 18 Sup. Ct 456; Mackenzie vs. Hare, 60 L.Ed 297; Contzen vs. United States, 45 L.Ed 148, 179 US 191; Bush vs. Kentucky, 27 L.Ed 354, 107 US 110.  Also see, The History of Los Angeles Superior Court: “The history of the judicial system started with the Mexican provincial territory and the pueblo of Los Angeles governed by the "Alcalde" system of justice ["Alcalde" is derived from the Moorish "al-cadi" or village judge].”

The 13th and 14th   Amendments, and the Emancipation Proclamation are major sources in the illusion  of freedom to the American public and together they established the transference of the White Negro> Property, via seizure, from the corporate states [> former colonies] to the Federal Corporation, and created a delusional avenue of freedom and liberty for the Preamble amalgamated Mauro’s and Mulatto Moors,  aboriginal to America and the Mulatto and Maurus indigenous to America [ > both being the native-  natural-born citizens of the United States of America] This citizenship is no more than voluntary slavery via contracts.

In Star Wars, Episode I, AnaKim  Skywalker a.k.a. Darth Vader represent the Slave(s) who eventually destroy virtually, i.e., all of the former masters [> those of the republic] and who in return is destroyed and saved by his seed, Luke, Skywalker, who was mixed with the bloodline of the Republic.

This negative Karma lead to the Civil war [clone Wars episode II, or artificially created people fighting for freedom]  to set Caucasian White persons free but instead of freeing the Slaves it enslaved the amalgamated free people by the ratification of the 13th and 14th Amendments, and the Emancipation Proclamation.

The term Emancipation comes from the Latin word amancipatio and literally means, "to transfer or make over property" (See, e.g., Cassell's New Latin Dictionary, 1960, p. 212).

Intelligence rules the world, and Ignorance bears the burden !

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Yet Another Journalist Who Accepted Favors From Jeffrey Epstein

Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastName-brand journalist Edward Jay Epstein was seduced by the charms of accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein more than three decades ago. Yet even after the Miami Herald, multiple lawsuits and law enforcement authorities detailed how he sexually abused dozens of teenage girls and sometimes raped them, the late Jeffrey Epstein’s spell apparently remains strong.“Look, take this about Jeffrey. He is the poster boy for rehabilitation,” said the 83-year-old Epstein (no relation to the convicted sex offender who authorities said hanged himself in his jail cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center a month after his July arrest on new federal charges of sex trafficking with minors). “He went to prison [after pleading guilty to reduced charges in 2008]. He served his term [13 months, nine of them on work-release that allowed him daytime visits to his Palm Beach, Florida, office]. He got out. The U.S. attorney’s office said he stuck completely to the terms of his parole. He registered as a sex offender—which is no fun, but which was something he was supposed to do. And he made $500 million.”In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, Edward Epstein added: “I did hang around with Jeffrey because I was fascinated with him. For one thing, the women around him were some of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen in my life. These were not underage women. They were women like [former model and Miss Sweden] Eva Andersson and [actress] Morgan Fairchild. None of them were really girlfriends of his, but they hung around him…“I don’t understand Jeffrey,” Edward continued. “I can’t conceive of why he would go out with an underage woman, unless your theory’s right that he’s a pedophile…It wasn’t like he was some sort of ugly gnome that couldn’t get a girl…When I knew him, I never saw so many good-looking women who stayed in his little orbit.”New York Times Reporter Solicited $30,000 for Charity From Jeffrey EpsteinEdward Epstein also cast doubt on the notion—advanced by the November 2018 Miami Herald investigation of Jeffrey’s extraordinarily lenient 2008 sentence for soliciting prostitution and  sex trafficking with a minor, an article that ultimately prompted the resignation of Donald Trump’s labor secretary, former U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, and new federal charges from the Southern District of New York—that Jeffrey destroyed dozens of young lives.“I’m not sure he destroyed their lives,” Edward said. “He paid them money, and they went on for six or seven years giving him massages. I don’t know if that destroyed their lives. Getting a massage or getting a girl to masturbate you doesn’t necessarily destroy your life.” (One of Jeffrey’s victims, Jennifer Araoz—who is now suing his estate and says the financier raped her at age 14—told a courtroom after Epstein’s suicide, “The fact that he felt entitled to take away my innocence…hurts me so much.”) Edward added: “Everything about Jeffrey was a con. I never thought, ‘here’s an honest guy.’ I just thought here’s a New York character…I think it’s a terrible thing, and a stupid thing, and a perverse thing, to have any sex with underage girls…I don’t believe many of the stories about Glenn Dubin, Prince Andrew—I don’t believe that they’re stupid enough, if they knew the girl was underage, why would anyone? You could be compromised, you could be blackmailed, especially by Jeffrey. Bill Clinton? They’d have to be out of their minds.”Edward stressed: “I never even discussed these things with Jeffrey”—whom he described as an unreliable witness and “a liar,” once claiming to Edward that he was, among other things, a private detective, and, another time, that he flew every month to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin. “Maybe he was a calculated liar, but I had a feeling it was pathological.”“If you say he’s a pedophile and he’s going out with children, that’s not anything I know,” Edward said, noting that he never rode on Jeffrey’s jet, visited any of his homes beyond the East 71st Street townhouse, or was offered a massage. ��Nineteen is ‘teenage’ too.” Pressed in the interview to account for credible allegations in official government documents as well as the media, Edward conceded that young women working for Jeffrey “recruited underage girls…mainly from massage parlors, by the way—that’s what his lawyers say, but that doesn’t make it any more legal,” Edward said. “I can’t imagine what happened, ok? I think he asked for younger and younger women. That’s just my guess.”Yet Edward suggested that Jeffrey’s July 2019 arrest and the new charges—a decade after he served his original time—were an act of bad faith on the federal government’s part.“If he bribed [Acosta or other officials] to get the deal, then obviously that’s a whole other criminal business,” Edward said. “But if they gave him the deal, if he negotiated and got it, then that was the price that society agreed on, and that was the price that he paid.”Despite news reports about a U.S. Marshals investigation of Jeffrey’s 2018 plane trips with apparently underage girls as young as 11 or 12, Edward said he’s unaware that his onetime friend was acting suspiciously and possibly violating the terms of his sentencing agreement.  Edward Jay Epstein, who has contributed articles to The Daily Beast, spoke by phone as Graydon Carter’s new online magazine, Airmail, published My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein, a lengthy and oddly non-judgmental chronicle of Edward’s 32-year, on-again, off-again friendship with the mysterious, Gatsby-like financial adviser.After Jeffrey’s arrest in July, Edward refused a request from The Daily Beast to discuss his unusual pal.He did so, he explained, “because Jeffrey was alive, and I didn’t want to add to the misery of someone who was in prison.”Known for his book-length investigations of the JFK assassination, the financial shenanigans of Hollywood, and the secret wars between the American and Russian spy agencies, Edward Epstein said he befriended the self-avowed financial whiz in the late 1980s, accepted personal favors from him—including first-class plane tickets and free lodging—but then didn’t speak with him for 24 years. (At least one other journalist has admitted taking favors from Jeffrey Epstein—former New York Times business reporter Landon Thomas Jr., who wrote a puff piece about him while he was facing criminal charges and successfully solicited a $30,000 charitable donation from Epstein for a Harlem school.)The breach with Edward occurred after Jeffrey cut him off over Edward’s thinly-veiled 1989 Manhattan, inc. “Wall Street Babylon” column (in which Jeffrey wasn’t named but was described in detail) that exposed some of his dubious business practices and brought unwelcome attention from the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the Airmail article, Edward wrote about a “frantic call from an executive at Simon & Schuster” who had met Jeffrey at Edward’s December 6, 1988 birthday dinner.“He told me that he had given Epstein $70,000 to invest in a deal to take over the chemical company Pennwalt. After sending the money, he had not received the necessary papers, and Epstein was no longer returning his calls. He phoned one of the principals in the deal, who said he had never heard of the executive,” Edward wrote.Edward recounted how he used a computer program Jeffrey had provided him to browse through Jeffrey’s financial transactions, where he found dozens of demands for the return of investment money and evidence of a twice-bounced check.Send The Daily Beast a Tip“As I read through this material, I found nothing about the publishing executive’s money, but I grew increasingly queasy about Epstein,” Edward wrote, adding that he never discovered anything about the Simon & Schuster exec’s money.On the phone, Edward repeatedly refused to identify the publishing mogul, who he recalled had offered Jeffrey and his date at the birthday dinner a ride to Palm Beach on his corporate jet.“I feel guilty about the whole thing because I introduced them,” Edward confided. “I’m not gonna tell you who it is—and the only reason is that I don’t want him screaming and shouting at me…He’ll go ballistic. You can guess who it is…To tell you the truth, he was a friend of mine and at a certain point he told me he did get his money back.”Attempts to reach Simon & Schuster’s larger-than-life former chief executive, Richard E. Snyder, were unsuccessful, so The Daily Beast cannot confirm whether he is the publisher in question.Describing their falling-out in the Airmail article, meanwhile, Edward wrote that he didn’t identify Jeffrey in his Manhattan, inc. column “because he refused to speak to the fact-checker.”“You caused me a lot of trouble,” Edward—in his Daily Beast interview—recalled Jeffrey fuming in a furious phone call over the column, which suggested he had improperly used inside information in one of his deals.   “I never disliked Jeffrey, by the way,” Edward said. “He disliked me, but I never disliked him.”Their relationship—which had included invitations to parties at Edward’s Upper East Side apartment and piano-concert soirees at the home of music and art philanthropist Stuart Pivar—suddenly resumed in 2013, Edward Epstein said, after he published a New York Review of Books essay about his old college professor and mentor Vladimir Nabokov, and Jeffrey invited him to his East 71st Street mansion to discuss the author of Lolita, Jeffrey’s favorite novel.Jeffrey boasted that he kept copies of Nabokov’s masterpiece in various bedrooms of his residences and aboard his private jet, nicknamed by the press the “Lolita Express.”Their relationship continued well into 2019, with personal visits, tea at the mansion, walks in Central Park and email exchanges, Edward said. “The last time I communicated with him was actually over emails, when Robert Kraft was arrested,” he recounted, citing Jeffrey’s curiosity about the New England Patriot owner’s February arrest for receiving handjobs in a Florida massage parlor. “His position was pretty interesting: If Robert Kraft and all the people going to that parlor were committing a crime, can the police just sit there and watch lots of people committing crimes and not interfere? That was the question I asked him.“And he answered that ‘the police were going through my garbage and everything, and if they had found that the girls were underage’—and he never himself admitted that they were underage—‘they should have stopped it.’ In other words, Jeffrey’s point was that the girls were acting illicitly if they were underage.”The Airmail article—actually Chapter 46 of Edward’s unpublished memoir, he said—also reports ethically problematic details about its author: that Edward accepted free lodging in the Santa Monica, California, apartment that Jeffrey rented for then-girlfriend Eva Andersson, and also accepted free first-class airline upgrades—which turned out to be illegal—from Jeffrey, who was later the subject of one of his columns for the now-defunct business magazine Manhattan, inc.In Airmail, Edward recounted an early meeting with Jeffrey in 1987: “As we finished the tea, I mentioned I was leaving for Spain on Monday. ‘How do you go?’  he asked. ‘Iberia Airlines,’ I said, adding that I always flew coach. ‘If you like, I can upgrade you to first class. Much better food.’ ‘How?’ ‘Drop your ticket off with my doorman tomorrow morning. It won’t cost you a penny.’Edward told The Daily Beast that he took advantage of Jeffrey’s plane-ticket largesse a few more times after that, until an official at a Japanese airline rejected his first-class ticket because it was bogus, and sent him back to the economy cabin.Edward said he understood that Jeffrey somehow had gained access to various airlines’ computer systems and was able to claim first-class seats.After the Japanese airline embarrassment, “I certainly did confront him,” Edward said, describing the fake first-class tickets as “theft of services.” “He said ‘don’t ask me anything. It works one-third of the time.’  ”Asked if it gave him pause as a journalist to be accepting favors and freebies from a potential subject of his journalism—and one who Edward acknowledged clearly wanted to be written about—he breezily replied: “I wasn’t writing about Jeffrey, but it gave me great pause,” but only because the first-class plane tickets turned out to be fake.“I didn’t plan to write anything about him [back in the late ‘80s]. He was no one,” Edward said by way of justifying his acceptance of Jeffrey’s gifts. “Yeah, Jeffrey wanted a column, but I had no intention of writing it…And if I wrote it, I’ve never written a favorable column about anyone…I take that back. I have written one or two favorable columns. But normally, you know, people hated me…I would never have accepted a favor if I planned to write a column about him. But an interview’s a favor.  When [former International Monetary Fund director and alleged rapist] Dominique Strauss-Kahn gave me an interview, it’s a favor to a journalist to get an interview, because otherwise you can’t sell the story.”Of course, as Edward Epstein acknowledges, he did end up writing about Jeffrey in the column that interrupted their relationship.But he said he has no regrets. “If you asked me this a few years ago, I would have said I regret writing that piece that got him angry at me. But now I’m sort of happy I wrote that piece and he stopped speaking to me because at least I have no connections to his perverse acts…Whatever he did, it was pretty bad.”“I hung around—and gone on vacation with—lots of dubious characters,” he said, adding with a laugh. “Remember there was a character on the radio called Boston Blackie? His logo was ‘friend of those who have no friends.’…I don’t make personal judgments. That’s not my business.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastName-brand journalist Edward Jay Epstein was seduced by the charms of accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein more than three decades ago. Yet even after the Miami Herald, multiple lawsuits and law enforcement authorities detailed how he sexually abused dozens of teenage girls and sometimes raped them, the late Jeffrey Epstein’s spell apparently remains strong.“Look, take this about Jeffrey. He is the poster boy for rehabilitation,” said the 83-year-old Epstein (no relation to the convicted sex offender who authorities said hanged himself in his jail cell at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center a month after his July arrest on new federal charges of sex trafficking with minors). “He went to prison [after pleading guilty to reduced charges in 2008]. He served his term [13 months, nine of them on work-release that allowed him daytime visits to his Palm Beach, Florida, office]. He got out. The U.S. attorney’s office said he stuck completely to the terms of his parole. He registered as a sex offender—which is no fun, but which was something he was supposed to do. And he made $500 million.”In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast, Edward Epstein added: “I did hang around with Jeffrey because I was fascinated with him. For one thing, the women around him were some of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen in my life. These were not underage women. They were women like [former model and Miss Sweden] Eva Andersson and [actress] Morgan Fairchild. None of them were really girlfriends of his, but they hung around him…“I don’t understand Jeffrey,” Edward continued. “I can’t conceive of why he would go out with an underage woman, unless your theory’s right that he’s a pedophile…It wasn’t like he was some sort of ugly gnome that couldn’t get a girl…When I knew him, I never saw so many good-looking women who stayed in his little orbit.”New York Times Reporter Solicited $30,000 for Charity From Jeffrey EpsteinEdward Epstein also cast doubt on the notion—advanced by the November 2018 Miami Herald investigation of Jeffrey’s extraordinarily lenient 2008 sentence for soliciting prostitution and  sex trafficking with a minor, an article that ultimately prompted the resignation of Donald Trump’s labor secretary, former U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, and new federal charges from the Southern District of New York—that Jeffrey destroyed dozens of young lives.“I’m not sure he destroyed their lives,” Edward said. “He paid them money, and they went on for six or seven years giving him massages. I don’t know if that destroyed their lives. Getting a massage or getting a girl to masturbate you doesn’t necessarily destroy your life.” (One of Jeffrey’s victims, Jennifer Araoz—who is now suing his estate and says the financier raped her at age 14—told a courtroom after Epstein’s suicide, “The fact that he felt entitled to take away my innocence…hurts me so much.”) Edward added: “Everything about Jeffrey was a con. I never thought, ‘here’s an honest guy.’ I just thought here’s a New York character…I think it’s a terrible thing, and a stupid thing, and a perverse thing, to have any sex with underage girls…I don’t believe many of the stories about Glenn Dubin, Prince Andrew—I don’t believe that they’re stupid enough, if they knew the girl was underage, why would anyone? You could be compromised, you could be blackmailed, especially by Jeffrey. Bill Clinton? They’d have to be out of their minds.”Edward stressed: “I never even discussed these things with Jeffrey”—whom he described as an unreliable witness and “a liar,” once claiming to Edward that he was, among other things, a private detective, and, another time, that he flew every month to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin. “Maybe he was a calculated liar, but I had a feeling it was pathological.”“If you say he’s a pedophile and he’s going out with children, that’s not anything I know,” Edward said, noting that he never rode on Jeffrey’s jet, visited any of his homes beyond the East 71st Street townhouse, or was offered a massage. “Nineteen is ‘teenage’ too.” Pressed in the interview to account for credible allegations in official government documents as well as the media, Edward conceded that young women working for Jeffrey “recruited underage girls…mainly from massage parlors, by the way—that’s what his lawyers say, but that doesn’t make it any more legal,” Edward said. “I can’t imagine what happened, ok? I think he asked for younger and younger women. That’s just my guess.”Yet Edward suggested that Jeffrey’s July 2019 arrest and the new charges—a decade after he served his original time—were an act of bad faith on the federal government’s part.“If he bribed [Acosta or other officials] to get the deal, then obviously that’s a whole other criminal business,” Edward said. “But if they gave him the deal, if he negotiated and got it, then that was the price that society agreed on, and that was the price that he paid.”Despite news reports about a U.S. Marshals investigation of Jeffrey’s 2018 plane trips with apparently underage girls as young as 11 or 12, Edward said he’s unaware that his onetime friend was acting suspiciously and possibly violating the terms of his sentencing agreement.  Edward Jay Epstein, who has contributed articles to The Daily Beast, spoke by phone as Graydon Carter’s new online magazine, Airmail, published My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein, a lengthy and oddly non-judgmental chronicle of Edward’s 32-year, on-again, off-again friendship with the mysterious, Gatsby-like financial adviser.After Jeffrey’s arrest in July, Edward refused a request from The Daily Beast to discuss his unusual pal.He did so, he explained, “because Jeffrey was alive, and I didn’t want to add to the misery of someone who was in prison.”Known for his book-length investigations of the JFK assassination, the financial shenanigans of Hollywood, and the secret wars between the American and Russian spy agencies, Edward Epstein said he befriended the self-avowed financial whiz in the late 1980s, accepted personal favors from him—including first-class plane tickets and free lodging—but then didn’t speak with him for 24 years. (At least one other journalist has admitted taking favors from Jeffrey Epstein—former New York Times business reporter Landon Thomas Jr., who wrote a puff piece about him while he was facing criminal charges and successfully solicited a $30,000 charitable donation from Epstein for a Harlem school.)The breach with Edward occurred after Jeffrey cut him off over Edward’s thinly-veiled 1989 Manhattan, inc. “Wall Street Babylon” column (in which Jeffrey wasn’t named but was described in detail) that exposed some of his dubious business practices and brought unwelcome attention from the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the Airmail article, Edward wrote about a “frantic call from an executive at Simon & Schuster” who had met Jeffrey at Edward’s December 6, 1988 birthday dinner.“He told me that he had given Epstein $70,000 to invest in a deal to take over the chemical company Pennwalt. After sending the money, he had not received the necessary papers, and Epstein was no longer returning his calls. He phoned one of the principals in the deal, who said he had never heard of the executive,” Edward wrote.Edward recounted how he used a computer program Jeffrey had provided him to browse through Jeffrey’s financial transactions, where he found dozens of demands for the return of investment money and evidence of a twice-bounced check.Send The Daily Beast a Tip“As I read through this material, I found nothing about the publishing executive’s money, but I grew increasingly queasy about Epstein,” Edward wrote, adding that he never discovered anything about the Simon & Schuster exec’s money.On the phone, Edward repeatedly refused to identify the publishing mogul, who he recalled had offered Jeffrey and his date at the birthday dinner a ride to Palm Beach on his corporate jet.“I feel guilty about the whole thing because I introduced them,” Edward confided. “I’m not gonna tell you who it is—and the only reason is that I don’t want him screaming and shouting at me…He’ll go ballistic. You can guess who it is…To tell you the truth, he was a friend of mine and at a certain point he told me he did get his money back.”Attempts to reach Simon & Schuster’s larger-than-life former chief executive, Richard E. Snyder, were unsuccessful, so The Daily Beast cannot confirm whether he is the publisher in question.Describing their falling-out in the Airmail article, meanwhile, Edward wrote that he didn’t identify Jeffrey in his Manhattan, inc. column “because he refused to speak to the fact-checker.”“You caused me a lot of trouble,” Edward—in his Daily Beast interview—recalled Jeffrey fuming in a furious phone call over the column, which suggested he had improperly used inside information in one of his deals.   “I never disliked Jeffrey, by the way,” Edward said. “He disliked me, but I never disliked him.”Their relationship—which had included invitations to parties at Edward’s Upper East Side apartment and piano-concert soirees at the home of music and art philanthropist Stuart Pivar—suddenly resumed in 2013, Edward Epstein said, after he published a New York Review of Books essay about his old college professor and mentor Vladimir Nabokov, and Jeffrey invited him to his East 71st Street mansion to discuss the author of Lolita, Jeffrey’s favorite novel.Jeffrey boasted that he kept copies of Nabokov’s masterpiece in various bedrooms of his residences and aboard his private jet, nicknamed by the press the “Lolita Express.”Their relationship continued well into 2019, with personal visits, tea at the mansion, walks in Central Park and email exchanges, Edward said. “The last time I communicated with him was actually over emails, when Robert Kraft was arrested,” he recounted, citing Jeffrey’s curiosity about the New England Patriot owner’s February arrest for receiving handjobs in a Florida massage parlor. “His position was pretty interesting: If Robert Kraft and all the people going to that parlor were committing a crime, can the police just sit there and watch lots of people committing crimes and not interfere? That was the question I asked him.“And he answered that ‘the police were going through my garbage and everything, and if they had found that the girls were underage’—and he never himself admitted that they were underage—‘they should have stopped it.’ In other words, Jeffrey’s point was that the girls were acting illicitly if they were underage.”The Airmail article—actually Chapter 46 of Edward’s unpublished memoir, he said—also reports ethically problematic details about its author: that Edward accepted free lodging in the Santa Monica, California, apartment that Jeffrey rented for then-girlfriend Eva Andersson, and also accepted free first-class airline upgrades—which turned out to be illegal—from Jeffrey, who was later the subject of one of his columns for the now-defunct business magazine Manhattan, inc.In Airmail, Edward recounted an early meeting with Jeffrey in 1987: “As we finished the tea, I mentioned I was leaving for Spain on Monday. ‘How do you go?’  he asked. ‘Iberia Airlines,’ I said, adding that I always flew coach. ‘If you like, I can upgrade you to first class. Much better food.’ ‘How?’ ‘Drop your ticket off with my doorman tomorrow morning. It won’t cost you a penny.’Edward told The Daily Beast that he took advantage of Jeffrey’s plane-ticket largesse a few more times after that, until an official at a Japanese airline rejected his first-class ticket because it was bogus, and sent him back to the economy cabin.Edward said he understood that Jeffrey somehow had gained access to various airlines’ computer systems and was able to claim first-class seats.After the Japanese airline embarrassment, “I certainly did confront him,” Edward said, describing the fake first-class tickets as “theft of services.” “He said ‘don’t ask me anything. It works one-third of the time.’  ”Asked if it gave him pause as a journalist to be accepting favors and freebies from a potential subject of his journalism—and one who Edward acknowledged clearly wanted to be written about—he breezily replied: “I wasn’t writing about Jeffrey, but it gave me great pause,” but only because the first-class plane tickets turned out to be fake.“I didn’t plan to write anything about him [back in the late ‘80s]. He was no one,” Edward said by way of justifying his acceptance of Jeffrey’s gifts. “Yeah, Jeffrey wanted a column, but I had no intention of writing it…And if I wrote it, I’ve never written a favorable column about anyone…I take that back. I have written one or two favorable columns. But normally, you know, people hated me…I would never have accepted a favor if I planned to write a column about him. But an interview’s a favor.  When [former International Monetary Fund director and alleged rapist] Dominique Strauss-Kahn gave me an interview, it’s a favor to a journalist to get an interview, because otherwise you can’t sell the story.”Of course, as Edward Epstein acknowledges, he did end up writing about Jeffrey in the column that interrupted their relationship.But he said he has no regrets. “If you asked me this a few years ago, I would have said I regret writing that piece that got him angry at me. But now I’m sort of happy I wrote that piece and he stopped speaking to me because at least I have no connections to his perverse acts…Whatever he did, it was pretty bad.”“I hung around—and gone on vacation with—lots of dubious characters,” he said, adding with a laugh. “Remember there was a character on the radio called Boston Blackie? His logo was ‘friend of those who have no friends.’…I don’t make personal judgments. That’s not my business.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Checklist for Forming a Corporation in Florida

Florida Incorporation and company registration.

Contact the Florida Secretary of State to determine if the proposed corporate name is available for registration. The proposed name of your corporation must be “distinguishable upon the records” of the secretary of state. A name is not considered to be distinguishable from another name if the only difference is:

a) reversing of words (e.g., Fast Copy, Copy Fast);

b) use of Arabic numbers or Roman numerals (e.g., Jim’s Sales I, Jim’s Sales II);

c) use of possessives (e.g., Thompson Auto Body, Thompson’s Auto Body);

d) phonetic spelling (e.g., Quick, Kwik).

2) Determine the availability of the proposed corporate name in any other states in which the business will operate.

3) File the articles of incorporation with the Florida Secretary of State, Business Services Division.

1) The name of the corporation must end with “Company,” “Co.,” “Corporation,” “Corp.,” “Incorporated,” or “Inc.”

2) The articles must indicate the corporation’s principal office—city, village or township, and county.

3) The articles must state the number of authorized shares that can be issued and their express terms. NOTE: The number of shares authorized determines the filing fee.

4) If the corporation plans to have an initial stated capital, it must be included.

5) You may appoint the initial board of directors in the articles.

6) The articles must be signed by all incorporators.

4) Incorporators, or the directors if named in the articles, should start a corporate minute book by acknowledging the filing of the articles and including the original of the filed articles.

a) Incorporators, or the directors if named in the articles, should authorize the issuance of shares.

b) The investors should sign a subscription agreement, the agreement in which the investor agrees to buy the shares for a given price.

c) The incorporators, or the directors if named in the articles, may set the value of noncash assets in payment of the subscriptions.

d) The incorporators, or the directors if named in the articles, accept the subscriptions.

e) The incorporators must give notice of the first shareholders’ meeting.

5) Consider electing a “Subchapter S” corporation status for federal and state tax purposes. See Sections 1362 et seq. of the Internal Revenue Code.

a) Use IRS Form 2553. File with the Internal Revenue Service Center, within the 16th day of the third month of the beginning of the tax year.

b) Shareholders and the corporation must file a notice of the subchapter selection with the Florida Department of Taxation.

6) If the business will operate under a name other than its corporate name, a fictitious name must be filed with the Florida Secretary of State.

7) Make sure your business complies with the Florida securities laws. The most common exemption from the Florida registration requirements for small businesses is a small business equity investment to ten or fewer investors. To comply with this exemption, the subscription agreement must include statements that:

1) the purchaser is aware that no market may exist for resale of the securities;

2) the purchaser is aware of any restrictions on the transfer of the securities, and

3) the purchaser declares that the purchase of equity is for investment purposes and not for redistribution. If there are non-Florida investors, check with their resident state security regulator.

8) Make sure your business complies with federal securities laws. Registration is required unless an exemption is available. Following are the two most common exemptions for small businesses:

a) Intrastate exemption

b) Private placement exemption

9) Obtain the taxpayer identification number from the Internal Revenue Service. Submit Form SS-4. See the procedure set forth on the IRS website: www.irs.ustreas.gov. Note that any person filing a Form SS-4 other than a corporate officer must be designated as the Third Party Designee on the Form SS-4. To handle any other tax matters for the corporation, a person must also file Form 2848 with the IRS.

a) By filing the Form SS-4, the corporation is automatically pre-enrolled in the Electronic Tax Payment System.

b) By filing the form SS-4, the corporation will receive the IRS Circular E Employee’s Tax Guide – Forms for Payroll.

10) Take the following action at the first shareholders’ meeting or by written consent of all

shareholders.

a) Elect directors.

b) If the directors named in the articles have not done so, the shareholders should adopt

the code of regulations for the internal government of the corporation.

c) Consider adopting a close corporation agreement

d) Set value for any non-cash payments by investors to the corporation.

e) Consider adopting a shareholder’s buy and sell agreement.

f) Set the fiscal year for the corporation.

11) Take the following action at the first meeting of the board of directors or by written consent of all directors.

a) Elect officers.

b) Set up a bank account by adopting a bank-provided resolution.

c) Consider adopting benefit plans.

d) Consider adopting a group term life insurance plan (see Internal Revenue Code Section 79).

e) Consider adopting accident and health insurance plan (see Internal Revenue Code Section 105[b]).

f) Consider adopting medical reimbursement plan (see Internal Revenue Code Section 105[b]).

g) Consider adopting a death benefit plan (see Internal Revenue Code Section 101[b]). h) Consider adopting a Section 1244 plan. This allows the stockholders to take an ordinary tax loss rather than a capital loss if the business fails and the stockholders lose their investment (see Internal Revenue Code Section 1244).

i) Adopt a resolution for leasing business space.

j) Adopt a resolution for the purchase of any real estate.

k) Set compensation of key employees

12) Consider requiring key employees to execute employment agreements with covenants not to compete.

13) Issue stock certificates or transaction statements for paid shares.

14) Consider adopting policies about the following issues to protect the company, the directors and the executives:

a) sexual harassment;

b) non-discrimination;

c) trade secret protection;

d) company ethics (e.g., corporate gifts, anti-kickbacks);

e) email, computer and Internet use;

f) compliance with environmental laws;

g) compliance with the anti-trust laws;

h) compliance with the worker safety rules;

i) development of procedures to prevent the hiring of illegal aliens, and

j) political contributions.

15) Obtain the following posters to be placed conspicuously in the workplace:

a) Florida Civil Rights;

b) Fair Labor Standards Act – Minimum Wage poster;

c) Employee Polygraph Protection Act – poster advising employees of federal rights when confronted by a request from an employer to undergo a lie detector test;

d) rights of employees under the Family and Medical Leave Act poster;

e) posted notice of the company’s anti-discrimination policy and anti-harassment policy (sex, race, national origin, etc.);

f) Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) poster (states the rights of employees under OSHA);

g) Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission poster;

h) Florida Wage and Hour requirements poster

16) Apply for an income tax withholding agent. File Application for Registration as a withholding Agent, with the Florida Department of Taxation.

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Florida’s Minimum Wage to Increase to $8.25 per hour –What About the Loonie, eh?

I originally hail from Toronto, Canada.  As an employment attorney now practicing in Florida, I enjoy comparing US employment laws with their Canadian counterparts.  So first, the news from Florida.

On January 1, 2018, Florida’s minimum wage will increase from $8.10 per hour to $8.25 per hour. This adjustment is based on the federal Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers in the South Region. For a full-time Florida employee earning the minimum wage, the increase results in $6 more per week, or $312 a year, before taxes and deductions. This increase is more substantial than last year’s increase of $104 before taxes and deductions.

Employers of tipped employees that are eligible for a tip credit under the Fair Labor Standards Act may continue to take a tip credit of up to $3.02. However, beginning January 1, 2018, these Florida employers must pay tipped employees a direct wage of $5.23 per hour.

So what’s the minimum wage in Ontario (the province in which Toronto is located) these days?  Today its $11.60 CAD (roughly $9.11 USD) per hour.   Ontario’s Premier aims to increase the minimum wage to $15 CAD (roughly $11.79 USD) per hour by January 2019.  To my Canadian friends, that is seven toonies and one loonie. (For non-native speakers, the Canadian $2 coin is called the toonie and the $1 coin is called the loonie-named after the loon, a common Canadian bird, pictured on the coin.)

Although it seems one figure is clearly higher than Florida, don’t forget that Canadians pay more in taxes including a value added tax on almost all our retail purchases, which is much higher than Florida’s sales tax. So I am not sure who has the higher effective minimum wage.

While the new Florida minimum wage is an interesting topic to discuss over a Thanksgiving dinner or a Holiday cocktail party, Florida employers should remember to implement the new minimum wage on January 1, 2018, and to replace their Florida minimum wage poster with the new one. Posters can be found here in English, Spanish, and Creole. 

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Florida’s Minimum Wage to Increase to $8.25 per hour –What About the Loonie, eh?

I originally hail from Toronto, Canada.  As an employment attorney now practicing in Florida, I enjoy comparing US employment laws with their Canadian counterparts.  So first, the news from Florida.

On January 1, 2018, Florida’s minimum wage will increase from $8.10 per hour to $8.25 per hour. This adjustment is based on the federal Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers in the South Region. For a full-time Florida employee earning the minimum wage, the increase results in $6 more per week, or $312 a year, before taxes and deductions. This increase is more substantial than last year’s increase of $104 before taxes and deductions.

Employers of tipped employees that are eligible for a tip credit under the Fair Labor Standards Act may continue to take a tip credit of up to $3.02. However, beginning January 1, 2018, these Florida employers must pay tipped employees a direct wage of $5.23 per hour.

So what’s the minimum wage in Ontario (the province in which Toronto is located) these days?  Today its $11.60 CAD (roughly $9.11 USD) per hour.   Ontario’s Premier aims to increase the minimum wage to $15 CAD (roughly $11.79 USD) per hour by January 2019.  To my Canadian friends, that is seven toonies and one loonie. (For non-native speakers, the Canadian $2 coin is called the toonie and the $1 coin is called the loonie-named after the loon, a common Canadian bird, pictured on the coin.)

Although it seems one figure is clearly higher than Florida, don’t forget that Canadians pay more in taxes including a value added tax on almost all our retail purchases, which is much higher than Florida’s sales tax. So I am not sure who has the higher effective minimum wage.

While the new Florida minimum wage is an interesting topic to discuss over a Thanksgiving dinner or a Holiday cocktail party, Florida employers should remember to implement the new minimum wage on January 1, 2018, and to replace their Florida minimum wage poster with the new one. Posters can be found here in English, Spanish, and Creole. 

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Senators will most definitely be ready to address Lev Parnas from talking, but they couldn’t motivate him from walking. So, spherical 10: 45 a.m. Wednesday, the first day of questions within the president’s impeachment trial, Parnas — who is entangled within the Ukraine scandal as an affiliate of President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, but cooperating with prosecutors — took a stroll from Union Region to the Capitol building.

He used to be headed to the impeachment trial, the put neither he nor anybody else has been referred to as as a stare. He already suspected he wouldn't be allowed inside of. Even though his lawyer, Joseph Bondy, had procured tickets from the space of labor of Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Parnas used to be carrying an electronic monitoring utility spherical his ankle because he used to be below condo arrest in Florida, charged with advertising and marketing campaign finance violations. A Fresh York federal judge authorized the accelerate back and forth but denied Bondy’s question to bear his consumer’s video display temporarily removed. Senate guidelines prohibited most electronic devices from the trial.

So, if he couldn’t narrate it in entrance of the Senate, he could well perhaps narrate it here, in entrance of the Union Region Ladurée macaron store: “The president knew every thing that used to be occurring in Ukraine,” Parnas mentioned. “There used to be many quid expert quos.”

“I don’t know Washington, D.C., that effectively,” mentioned Bondy, a prison protection and cannabis industry lawyer. He gestured within the direction of the Capitol. “I judge we accelerate that implies, ethical?”

Both wore gray fits. Both had American flag pins on their lapels. The pair were swarmed by TV camera crews.

“I’m no longer here to originate a circus,” mentioned Bondy, but most circuses originate with a parade. Demonstrators within the vicinity latched onto Parnas’s walking caravan, some of them following the scrum without intelligent who or what they were chasing, till the chant started, on Delaware Avenue: “Let Lev talk!”

“I felt cherish a Kardashian for a pair of minutes,” a law pupil accompanying the ultimate crew remarked.

“I didn’t await how tense it'd be to address walking with the cameras, . However I believed it'd be the ethical thing for us to attain,” mentioned Bondy, who referred to as the stroll “symbolic”: “With a dinky bit of luck our presence will bear some fee . . . in pushing this movement against a comely trial.”

He wasn’t determined the put Parnas would see the trial. “We’ll figure it out. He’ll be safe with you guys, he’s safe with all people. Other folk cherish him.”

Other folk looked as if it would. “Thanks, Lev!” referred to as out Jennifer Chartrand, 55, of Rockville. She used to be carrying a knitted purple pussy hat. “Thanks for speaking truth!” All the method thru the road, Stephen Parlato from Boulder, Colo., stood outside the Capitol’s Senate entrance with a poster board signal: “The stone wall is CRACKING.”

If the wall does crack, Parnas has dealt a pair of hammer blows. Since his arrest in October with one other Giuliani affiliate, he has publicly and now and again implicated Trump and a few other Republican lawmakers in an alleged design to stress Ukraine to analyze a political rival.

Digicam operators walked backward for the half of-mile stroll within the course of the Union Region plaza, down Delaware Avenue and up Structure Avenue, calling out limitations to forestall any falls. “Columns!” “Steps!” “Hydrant, 15 feet!” Sooner than the day used to be over, a photographer would fall backward true into a planter.

“Here's jaywalking, I don’t know,” mentioned Bondy with performative warning. He assign his arm spherical Parnas, sooner than the procession lost its skill.

“The put’s the Hart Building? We’ve gotta salvage our tickets,” Bondy requested the cameramen.

“You handed it,” one spoke back.

“I knew somebody would lend a hand us,” mentioned Bondy, sooner than bounding up the stairs to the Russell Building, to an entrance which — oops — used to be closed.

“These steps don’t accelerate anyplace!” a reporter referred to as out to the group.

The video display on his ethical ankle tracked all of Parnas’s scandalous turns. It tracked him as he entered the Dirksen Senate Region of enterprise Building at 11: 04, thru a steel detector, which beeped as he handed thru (he raised one overlong pant cuff to illustrate the guard the utility and persevered on his skill). It tracked him as he walked thru the hallway that linked to the Hart Building, past the aides pressed up against the glass within the space of labor of Kyrsten Sinema, the Democratic senator from Arizona, then as a lot as Schumer’s space of labor, the put he sat within the lobby and failed to originate tiny talk with the press.

“Would possibly perhaps level-headed Senator [Lindsey] Graham be apprehensive?” a reporter requested.

Certainly, Parnas spoke back. “Correct cherish Devin Nunes knew, Senator Graham knew for a in point of fact lengthy time,” he mentioned sooner than his co-counsel Stephanie Schuman interjected to diminish him off. He did no longer meet with Schumer, who used to be giving a news convention about the impeachment trial at the time.

The utility tracked him as he walked lend a hand thru the underground tunnels against the Capitol, the put he and Bondy, now carrying two inexperienced tickets, breezed past Triumph, the Insult Comic Canines, a character voiced by comic Robert Smigel. They met one other phalanx of reporters, and Parnas spoke of his desire to testify, though he realized it could well maybe maybe perhaps no longer originate a distinction.

“Trump world is cherish a cult, and most of those senators are within the cult, so I don’t know if anything else could well perhaps alternate some of their minds,” mentioned Parnas. “However confidently the final public will know what’s occurring.”

“Develop you can maybe additionally simply bear anything else to impart to Rudy Giuliani?” somebody requested.

“Repeat the truth, Rudy,” Parnas mentioned.

“Are you looking out to diminish a deal?” somebody requested.

“He’s looking out to provide an clarification for the truth,” Bondy answered for his consumer.

Requested if he could well perhaps mumble their fill praises his ankle video display, Parnas declined. “That’s a separate self-discipline,” he mentioned. “It has nothing to attain with this. Or even it does.” Requested later if the utility used to be wretched, Parnas ultimate smiled and shrugged.

Parnas’s fellowship started to crash up within the Capitol subway terminal. Bondy took his stamp thru safety and boarded a practice against the Senate gallery, the put a balcony seat used to be ready for him underneath a bust of Chester A. Arthur. Parnas and the the rest of his entourage loitered within the course of the terminal a pair of minutes longer, after which backtracked thru the space of labor buildings, making a few more scandalous turns sooner than they chanced on the ultimate exit.

After they walked lend a hand into the daylight hours, a queue of demonstrators erupted into cheers, some chasing Parnas correct down to hand him pamphlets or pose for selfies.

“That it is possible you'll perhaps maybe be a gigantic name!” a person screamed. Seeming to fill this, Parnas hailed a cab and rode off without telling the reporters the put to win him, though his ankle video display knew.

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Florida’s Minimum Wage to Increase to $8.25 per hour –What About the Loonie, eh?

I originally hail from Toronto, Canada.  As an employment attorney now practicing in Florida, I enjoy comparing US employment laws with their Canadian counterparts.  So first, the news from Florida.

On January 1, 2018, Florida’s minimum wage will increase from $8.10 per hour to $8.25 per hour. This adjustment is based on the federal Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers in the South Region. For a full-time Florida employee earning the minimum wage, the increase results in $6 more per week, or $312 a year, before taxes and deductions. This increase is more substantial than last year’s increase of $104 before taxes and deductions.

Employers of tipped employees that are eligible for a tip credit under the Fair Labor Standards Act may continue to take a tip credit of up to $3.02. However, beginning January 1, 2018, these Florida employers must pay tipped employees a direct wage of $5.23 per hour.

So what’s the minimum wage in Ontario (the province in which Toronto is located) these days?  Today its $11.60 CAD (roughly $9.11 USD) per hour.   Ontario’s Premier aims to increase the minimum wage to $15 CAD (roughly $11.79 USD) per hour by January 2019.  To my Canadian friends, that is seven toonies and one loonie. (For non-native speakers, the Canadian $2 coin is called the toonie and the $1 coin is called the loonie-named after the loon, a common Canadian bird, pictured on the coin.)

Although it seems one figure is clearly higher than Florida, don’t forget that Canadians pay more in taxes including a value added tax on almost all our retail purchases, which is much higher than Florida’s sales tax. So I am not sure who has the higher effective minimum wage.

While the new Florida minimum wage is an interesting topic to discuss over a Thanksgiving dinner or a Holiday cocktail party, Florida employers should remember to implement the new minimum wage on January 1, 2018, and to replace their Florida minimum wage poster with the new one. Posters can be found here in English, Spanish, and Creole. 

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Florida’s Minimum Wage to Increase to $8.25 per hour –What About the Loonie, eh?

I originally hail from Toronto, Canada.  As an employment attorney now practicing in Florida, I enjoy comparing US employment laws with their Canadian counterparts.  So first, the news from Florida.

On January 1, 2018, Florida’s minimum wage will increase from $8.10 per hour to $8.25 per hour. This adjustment is based on the federal Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers in the South Region. For a full-time Florida employee earning the minimum wage, the increase results in $6 more per week, or $312 a year, before taxes and deductions. This increase is more substantial than last year’s increase of $104 before taxes and deductions.

Employers of tipped employees that are eligible for a tip credit under the Fair Labor Standards Act may continue to take a tip credit of up to $3.02. However, beginning January 1, 2018, these Florida employers must pay tipped employees a direct wage of $5.23 per hour.

So what’s the minimum wage in Ontario (the province in which Toronto is located) these days?  Today its $11.60 CAD (roughly $9.11 USD) per hour.   Ontario’s Premier aims to increase the minimum wage to $15 CAD (roughly $11.79 USD) per hour by January 2019.  To my Canadian friends, that is seven toonies and one loonie. (For non-native speakers, the Canadian $2 coin is called the toonie and the $1 coin is called the loonie-named after the loon, a common Canadian bird, pictured on the coin.)

Although it seems one figure is clearly higher than Florida, don’t forget that Canadians pay more in taxes including a value added tax on almost all our retail purchases, which is much higher than Florida’s sales tax. So I am not sure who has the higher effective minimum wage.

While the new Florida minimum wage is an interesting topic to discuss over a Thanksgiving dinner or a Holiday cocktail party, Florida employers should remember to implement the new minimum wage on January 1, 2018, and to replace their Florida minimum wage poster with the new one. Posters can be found here in English, Spanish, and Creole. 

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