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Today (6 June) is the first anniversary of the implementation of the UK Ivory Act, the country’s comprehensive ban on virtually all forms of ivory trade.
Just two weeks ago, it was extended to include five other ivory-bearing species – hippos, narwhals, orcas, walruses and sperm whales. After elephant ivory, hippo ivory is the most at risk of trade.
As our efforts to secure the UK ivory ban have demonstrated, closing domestic ivory markets is a long-term, multi-phase process – and securing Government commitment to closing or restricting ivory trade, while a key milestone, is certainly not the endpoint.
In reality, much of the real work begins once the ban or restriction is in effect. To ensure the mandate is met by the regulating authority, dedicated systems and processes need to be funded, developed and staffed by qualified individuals; processes need to be trialed, evaluated and re-tested; policies and mechanisms are always needed to increase and improve cooperation, communication and coordination with other agencies and departments, such as standard operational guidelines.
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As we have regularly demonstrated in our efforts to close domestic ivory markets, legal domestic trade in ivory stimulates demand and incentivises the illegal sourcing of ivory which is, in turn, is laundered into the legal trade. Poorly regulated legal markets further compound the threat to elephant populations.
In 2016, recognising the threat posed by legal domestic markets, signatory countries to the Convention on International Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) unanimously agreed that nations with domestic ivory markets linked to poaching or illegal ivory trade should close them.
To date, many countries including the UK, the US, many African elephant range states, and the EU have closed their ivory markets to protect elephants from the trade. As a significant win, China closed its ivory markets in 2017, the largest in world at that point.
While the UK Ivory Act is one of the world’s most stringent commercial ivory bans, others are not as rigorous.
The EU’s restrictions, which were updated in December 2021, are a case in point. The restrictions on ivory trade have been captured in the form of “guidance” and are therefore not legally binding. The guidelines are left to each Member State to implement. EIA, along with others, has repeatedly called for more stringent restrictions in the form of legally binding regulations and for the strict monitoring of the implementation by Member States.
The implementation of the updated EU guidelines on trade in ivory and monitoring thereof has since been captured in the EU’s revised Wildlife Trafficking Action Plan (WTAP).
EIA is actively engaged in the public process of commenting on the WTAP and its monitoring framework. The prompt implementation of a robust, time-bound monitoring system for the ivory guidelines that rigorously scrutinises implementation at all levels, especially by Member States, is required. We believe that minimum standards, targets and actions should jointly be identified with Member States, accompanied by regular reporting.
Japan – the largest remaining legal market
Currently, Japan holds the ignominious title of having the world’s largest remaining legal ivory market, our colleagues at EIA US and their Japanese partner, Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund (JTEF), have been engaged in a long-term battle to secure the closure of Japan’s domestic market.
In Japan today, there are thousands of Government-registered ivory dealers and the market has been continuously supplied by an influx of whole tusks registered for decades with little oversight.
Japan is also the only country to have received ivory in two CITES-approved ‘one-off’ international sales after the implementation of the 1989 ban on international commercial ivory trade.
As EIA US and JTEF investigations have revealed, Japan has been unable to control its domestic ivory market; its ivory trade controls are riddled with loopholes that enable illegal trade and illegal ivory exports. For example, there is no comprehensive tracking system for cut ivory pieces and worked products, such as hanko, cylindrical name stamps used to conduct many types of personal and professional business, much like handwritten signatures are used in the West.
An analysis of court cases in China related to the illegal export of ivory and ivory products from Japan to China for resale found that many cases involved organised criminal groups, indicating that Japan’s open market is undermining the efforts of other countries with closed markets.
Japan has repeatedly denied its domestic ivory market is contributing to the poaching of elephants and the illegal ivory trade and maintains that its controls are sufficient – despite calls for closure from NGOs and countries that have closed their ivory markets, Japan remains unmoved.
African elephant populations have declined by more than 86 per cent over 31 years with only approximately 400,000 remaining. The forest elephant, particularly threatened by poaching for the illegal ivory trade, is classified as ‘critically endangered’ and the savanna elephant is ‘endangered’.
To give elephant populations a fighting chance for recovery, the legal trade in ivory needs to be stopped everywhere, at every level, and the ban on international commercial ivory trade upheld.
To do its part to protect elephants from the trade in ivory, Japan must close its domestic ivory market.
EIA’s Elephant Campaign looks forward to the day when we are able to celebrate the closure of the last remaining domestic ivory market in the world.


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‘Japan Sinks 2020‘ is originally a disaster novel by Japanese writer Sakyo Komatsu in 1973. Since then many series and films have been made based on it. As of now, due to its popularity, an anime series is released on Netflix.
Japan Sinks: Plot
A series of 10 episodes is released which is animated by Science Saru. The story revolves around the Mutou siblings Ayumu and her brother Gou. Soon after the Tokyo Olympics 2020, a disastrous earthquake hits Japan. It causes widespread casualties and great devastation. So, Mutou and Gou try to escape the city along with their family and friends.
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Manny Ramirez exercised his $20 million contract option for 2010 on Friday and will return to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
His agent Scott Boras informed general manager Ned Colletti of the decision, which Ramirez had until this month to make.
He could have exercised an out clause in the two-year, $45 million deal he signed in March.
Ramirez hit .290 with 19 home runs and 63 RBIs in 104 regular season games. He missed 50 games while suspended for violating Major League Baseball's drug policy.
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Boffin nearly threw away first lens before realising it could end the daily grind
An accidental discovery at the Australian National University (ANU) has created a way to deposit-print small, high-quality optical lenses, in something that's been hailed as “turn a smartphone into an optical microscope”.
Not only that, but they use a material already well-known in optics: polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), which is used to make contact lenses.
Instead of the tedious business of lens-grinding to create high-magnification optics, the researchers have developed a deposition process in which a droplet is allowed to flow over a surface and solidify into the lens.
In the ANU's canned statement, Dr Steve Lee from the ANU Research School of Engineering explained: “We put a droplet of polymer onto a microscope cover slip and then invert it. Then we let gravity do the work, to pull it into the perfect curvature,” Dr Lee said.
“By successively adding small amounts of fluid to the droplet, we discovered that we can reach a magnifying power of up to 160 times with an imaging resolution of four micrometers,” he added.
On its own, of course, the lens isn't much use: Dr Lee then worked with Dr Tri Phan from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research to create a suitable housing. The group is 3D-printing the frame to hold the lens, an LED for illumination, and a coin battery to power the lamp.
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About a year ago I started the PE Blog for the world’s first fully electronic (and, btw, free for authors and readers!) palaeontological journal Palaeontologia Electronica, for which I am a style editor. Stupidly, I had convinced the other editors there that a blog would be a good idea, and volunteered to do most of the work. After all, how difficult can it be to have a short article ready for each new paper the journal publishes? I had zero experience with blogs, except for commenting now and then at the wonderful SVPOW, but I thought things wouldn’t be too bad. Little did I know…. but that’s for another post.
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From the makers of the popular quadricopters like the AR Drone 2.0, and the MiniDrone Rolling Spider comes a new release: the new Bebop Drone from Parrot. This new Bebop Drone can be a great edition to add to the collection of avid drone hobbyists, or anyone into aerial photo services.
Parrot is back with a more sophisticated, $500 drone called the Bebop. Its computer, Parrot says, has eight times the power of its predecessor, and its sensors now include “a 3-axes accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, one ultrasound sensor with an 8 meters reach, one pressure sensor and a vertical camera.” Read more here:
Unveiled on Tuesday in New York City, the Bebop drone is smaller, lighter and infinitely more powerful than Parrot’s AR.Drone 2.0 It does have at least one thing in common with the previous drone. Both use ad-hoc Wi-Fi connections to talk to a tablet-based control app. Beyond that, though, Bebop is a very different animal. It’s $499 ($200 more than the AR.Drone). The body only marginally resembles AR.Drone. It still has four powerful rotors, which can be partially covered by a pair of foam hulls. Its curved back is made up of, in part, a slightly larger battery, which lasts slightly less time than the AR.Drone’s. According to Parrot, you get about 11 minutes flight time per charge. Read more here:
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National Women’s History Month is over…and I’m exhausted. So many events, so many conversations, so little time.
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The late philanthropist Mr Lee Wee Nam was a distinguished community leader and entrepreneur who was an ardent supporter of education.
In the course of his illustrious career, he had held several positions such as founder and Chairman of Lee Hiok Kee Pte Ltd, President of Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce, President of Teo Chew Poit Ip Huay Kwan, and was the first President of Ngee Ann Girls' School.
In 2001, family members of the late Mr Lee made a gift of S$10 million to the University. Made through Lee Hiok Kee (Pte) Ltd, the gift supports NTU’s push for a life sciences programme and established the Lee Wee Nam Professorship in Life Sciences and Research Fund in Life Sciences
In honour of the Lee family’s generous donation, Library 1, NTU’s flagship library, was renamed the Lee Wee Nam Library.
Six years later, in 2007, the Lee family made an additional endowed gift of S$5 million to establish the Lee Wee Nam Science and Technology Library Collection Endowment Fund.
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Download free firmware update kingston ssd. Kingston SSD firmware updates are provided via Kingston’s SSD Manager (KSM) application.
If a firmware update is applicable or available for your product, KSM will indicate this, and the firmware release notes related to the update will be displayed within the application interface. If there is a firmware update available for your specific Kingston® SSD, you will be able to click on the firmware update button to begin the update. Once the firmware update process has completed it is recommended to safely shut down your system and leave it powered off.
Kingston® SSD Manager is an application that provides users with the ability to monitor and manage various aspects of their Kingston® Solid State Drive.
With Kingston® SSD Manager you will be able to: Monitor drive health, status, and disk usage; View drive identification data including model name, serial number, firmware version, and other. FIRMWARE AND FIRMWARE UPDATES ARE PROVIDED AT KINGSTON’S DISCRETION IN CONNECTION WITH CERTAIN KINGSTON PRODUCTS.
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Each SSD maker, be it Intel or Samsung or Kingston or OCZ, has some sort of utility which will have the option to upgrade firmware. Let’s take my case, where I found that I had an Intel SSD. Kingston SSD Manager will not offer firmware updates for NVMe SSDs until IEEE support has been disabled.
In order to complete the firmware update you must do the following: 1. First, we recommend you backup your data. The Kingston SSD Manager doesn't recognize this SSDso how do I know if there's a firmware update available? The firmware - according to CrystalDisk info -. Las actualizaciones de firmware del SSD Kingston se ofrecen a través de la aplicación Kingston SSD Manager (KSM).
Si una actualización de firmware es aplicable o está disponible para su producto, KSM lo indicará y las notas de la versión de firmware relacionadas con la actualización se mostrarán en la interfaz de la aplicación. Kingston provides their SSDNOW Field Updater with the firmware updates on their site as a client for installation. The application works with the HyperX (that we’ll be updating), the SSDNow KC and other Kingston SSDs. Before you get started updating though, it’s highly recommended that you backup all your significant data.
Kingston SSD Firmware Update. Posted by Vyacheslav Leave a comment on Kingston SSD Firmware Update. On the test, I will update the SSD firmware of the Kingston SVS37A Gb drive. 1) Download the official utility Kingston SSD Manager with firmware upgrade. Kingston GB SSD Firmware upgrade SVS37AG My BIOS settings in pitcures playlist: gveu.aramestudio.ru Music Credit ===== Sile. if necessary, and to designate the SSD as the first boot device. Note: If the install tool does not detect the Kingston SSD, please refer to step 2 to check IDE mode setting requirement.
Firmware Update Screen (SVS2/64G procedure displayed) Example 3. With Kingston SSD Manager you will be able to: Monitor drive health, status, and disk usage; View drive identification data including model name, serial number, firmware version, and other Operating System: Windows. Update drive’s firmware. Run drive diagnostic scans. Securely erase data (Windows 7 only).
Utilize self-monitoring, analysis, reporting technology (SMART) and export detailed reports gveu.aramestudio.ru format. Although Kingston SSD Toolbox can monitor Kingston solid state disks efficiently, some users said that the Kingston SSD Toolbox cannot find drive. Is the data on the SSD lost after updating the firmware using the Dashboard? 3. Why is my drive NOT being detected by the Dashboard? 4. What does the “Not Supported” mark on “Life Remaining” or “Temperature” box indicate?
5. When will I need to use the Advanced Options for firmware update? 6. What is performance monitor? What is it. Kingston® Solid State Drive. With Kingston® SSD Manager you will be able to: • Monitor drive health, status, and disk usage • View drive identification data including model name, serial number, firmware version, and other relevant information • View and export detailed drive health and status reports • Update drive firmware.
Recently we’ve pored over our How To Upgrade SSD Firmware page, adding several guides and updating a few others in order to give consumers a grasp on how to complete a process which can vary quite drastically from brand to gveu.aramestudio.ru SSD manufacturers deliver their firmware updates in a client that downloads and updates your SSD with the simple click of a button, and they.
The Kingston® SSD Toolbox is an installable application that provides users with the ability to monitor various aspects related to the status of their Sandforce-based Kingston SSD. With the Kingston® SSD Toolbox users will be able to: Monitor drive health, status and disk usage. I'm having problems with my second Kingston SSD in the past few years.
The folks here have raised the possibility that I might need to update the firmware. I'm about to buy a new SSD and reinstall the whole system, so it's worth a shot. I see that Kingston does maintain an SSD Manager but that it's only available for Windows.
KINGSTON DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE FIRMWARE OR FIRMWARE UPDATES WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE, ACCESSIBLE, UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR ERROR-FREE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY INFORMATION, TEXT, GRAPHICS, LINKS OR OTHER ITEMS File Size: 95KB.
The Intel® SSD Firmware Update Tool provides the firmware update capabilities for the Intel® Optane™ Memory and Intel® Solid State Drives listed in Release Notes.
The tool comes in the form of an ISO image and requires either a completely empty USB drive or a blank CD (with CD burning software and a read/writable CD-ROM drive). TL;DR: Kingston A SSDs have fucked firmware and you cannot update it on Linux. Recently I built my first Linux gaming PC. Pretty good specs for a good price, all working together in unison (well, almost all) to give me the best Proton-powered experience.
4. Follow the onscreen prompts to update target drive. 5. Update your drive. When successful, you will see: a. The SSD Firmware has been updated on drive [serial number] b. Power cycle is required to see and use the new code.
6. Shutdown system. 7. Power on system and use drive as normal. I have a Kingston HyperX 3K GB SSD (SHSG) with firmware version ABBF0. I have seen that my drive performs slower than other same model drives in reviews etc with different firmware versions. So I went to Kingston official page and downloaded the firmware ABBF0.
However, when I try to update it, it says no firmware update available. Click Firmware Update. Review the information in the Firmware Panel, then click Update.
Read and follow the Firmware Update Warning, then click Run. On the Restart Computer panel, click Yes or No to complete the firmware update.
Kingston Toolbox Firmware Update Procedure Document No. SH3-SFWA00 04/09/14 Page 4 Step 3: Selecting the "Tools" window and updating your SSD Select the "Tools" tab located at the top of the application interface.
Note: If you haven't backed up your data yet, Kingston recommends you do so before proceeding with the firmware update. Upgrading an SSD’s firmware though isn’t always as simple or intuitive as it should be. The upgrade process can be even more difficult for those without an optical drive and spare media. Sometimes, it’s just handy to boot up from another drive and handle your update that gveu.aramestudio.ru: Brian Beeler. Download Kingston HDD / SSD / NAS / USB Flash drivers, firmware, bios, tools, utilities last update.
platform. Page 1. Kingston SSD Manager 2, downloads. Kingston SSDNow V SSD Firmware ABBF0 for Mac OS downloads. HDD / SSD / NAS / USB Flash | Kingston. Mac. firmware update ISO within the system in order to continue with the update procedure. Updating SSD Firmware with Bootable CD / DVD Note: Upon booting from the Kingston Tools Utility, your track pad may be disabled depending on the version of your notebook. To resolve this, the following instructions will. Kingston SSD Firmware Update SSDNow V+ Uaktualnienie sprzętowe zostało zaprojektowane dla użytkowników systemów Windows 7, Vista SP2, XP SP3 lub Linux.
W. Download Kingston SSDNow V SSD Firmware ABBF0 (HDD / SSD / NAS / USB Flash) The Solid State Drive (SSD) Toolbox is an update utility that properly recognizes the SSD unit(s) installed on your system. It also displays various pieces of information regarding the connected storage devices.
The updated firmware is finally available to the public through Kingston SSD Manager; it's basically a 1-click update. Internally, the Kingston A uses a Silicon Motion SMENG controller paired with Micron layer TLC flash.
The SM is a four-channel design, whereas the SM on the KC uses eight flash channels. document no. sph-rnd1b.a00 kingston ssd release notes – 12/15/16 page 2 of 3 kingston expressly disclaims all such warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, with respect to the firmware and firmware updates including, without limitation, warranties or conditions of. Documentation Content Type Maintenance & Performance. Article ID Last Reviewed 08/29/ Re: SSD firmware update failedPM Can you please replace the gveu.aramestudio.ru file in the FWSD44 package, with the attached one, and then try the firmware update.
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Just passing through. Won't stop.
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There is a nice Benhanas and a Cheesecake factory going in at Waterman and Baseline once Waterman Gardens is razed due to lead and asbestos next August!
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Halyard Health (NYSE:HYH) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report issued on Thursday. The firm currently has a $62.00 price objective on the medical instruments supplier’s stock. Zacks Investment Research‘s price objective suggests a potential upside of 14.62% from the company’s previous close.
According to Zacks, “Halyard Health, Inc. is a medical technology company. It is focused on advancing health and healthcare by preventing infection, eliminating pain and speeding recovery. The Company sells surgical and infection prevention products for the operating room. Halyard offers products such as sterilization wraps, face masks, surgical drapes and gowns, closed suction catheters, pain pumps and enteral feeding tubes. It offers a range of medical device solutions including post-operative pain management solutions, minimally invasive interventional (or chronic) pain therapies, closed airway suction systems, and enteral feeding tubes. Halyard Health, Inc. is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. “
HYH has been the topic of a number of other reports. Stifel Nicolaus raised their price target on Halyard Health from $52.00 to $58.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 3rd. KeyCorp upgraded Halyard Health from a “sector weight” rating to an “overweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 5th. Deutsche Bank raised their price target on Halyard Health from $42.00 to $50.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 3rd. ValuEngine upgraded Halyard Health from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, February 28th. Finally, Morgan Stanley raised their price target on Halyard Health from $48.50 to $52.00 and gave the stock an “underweight” rating in a research note on Thursday, May 3rd. One analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, five have issued a buy rating and two have given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. The company has a consensus rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $56.80.
Shares of HYH opened at $54.09 on Thursday. The company has a current ratio of 3.22, a quick ratio of 2.96 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.43. Halyard Health has a 12 month low of $35.79 and a 12 month high of $54.46. The firm has a market cap of $2.51 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 23.02, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.40 and a beta of 1.62.
Halyard Health (NYSE:HYH) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, May 2nd. The medical instruments supplier reported $0.76 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.17 by $0.59. The business had revenue of $156.40 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $155.08 million. Halyard Health had a return on equity of 7.90% and a net margin of 7.72%. The company’s revenue was up 7.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.48 EPS. equities research analysts expect that Halyard Health will post 1.77 earnings per share for the current year.
Several hedge funds have recently added to or reduced their stakes in HYH. First Manhattan Co. raised its holdings in Halyard Health by 595.1% in the 4th quarter. First Manhattan Co. now owns 15,189 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock worth $701,000 after purchasing an additional 13,004 shares during the period. Swiss National Bank raised its holdings in Halyard Health by 2.3% in the 4th quarter. Swiss National Bank now owns 78,700 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock worth $3,634,000 after purchasing an additional 1,800 shares during the period. Fox Run Management L.L.C. bought a new position in Halyard Health in the 4th quarter worth $385,000. Suntrust Banks Inc. bought a new position in Halyard Health in the 4th quarter worth $330,000. Finally, Millennium Management LLC raised its holdings in Halyard Health by 107.7% in the 4th quarter. Millennium Management LLC now owns 215,689 shares of the medical instruments supplier’s stock worth $9,961,000 after purchasing an additional 111,849 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 90.51% of the company’s stock.
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Halyard Health, Inc operates as a medical technology company that focuses on eliminating pain, speeding recovery, and preventing infection for healthcare providers and patients worldwide. Its Medical Devices segment provides a portfolio of products that focuses on respiratory and digestive health, along with surgical and interventional pain management.
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Ryan Newman's Heifer Adventures: Day 4
Heifer does a lot of amazing things, and it was pretty cool to see it in action. Scroll down to help me end hunger and you'll get a special video message from me :)
Heifer does this really cool thing where they teach people to Pass On the Gift® to help other needy families. The passing of the gift is where a family who has received livestock from Heifer gives offspring from that livestock to another family in the community. Families who once needed help give help to others. After getting the chance to see one of their ceremonies, we ate lunch, planted a tree, and of course, danced! Heifer does a lot of amazing things, and it was pretty cool to see it in action.
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Since the Road was founded in 1991, we have built a reputation for supporting, nurturing, and presenting new works. We are also deeply invested in our NoHo community and the neighborhood’s revitalization, and involve ourselves in community service and educational outreach.
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Pregnant Snooki busts out the blossoming bump in sexy black swimwear for poolside fun with the family in Florida
Snooki's due to deliver her second baby, a girl, in autumn, but that hasn't stopped her from living the good life.
The 26-year-old reality star was the picture of pregnancy bliss as she soaked up the sun in Florida on Monday with fiance Jionni LaValle and their 22-month-old son Lorenzo.
Snooki was overflowing that strapless black maternity one-piece she was wearing that was tight at the bust and billowed out over her protruding bump.
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Family fun: Snooki tested the water on Monday after taking her growing bump to Florida for a sunny vacation with fiance Jionni LaValle and their 22-month-old son Lorenzo
Her tanned shoulders were exposed and sported her usual assortment of tattoos as she padded barefoot over to the edge of the pool where Jionni frolicked with their little boy.
With her magenta-hued hair gathered up in a high topknot, Snooki gingerly tested the water's temperature with her toe.
The mama-to-be was soon wading in the pool, and at one point was seen enjoying a romantic clinch with her man.
Pregnant pause: The 26-year-old reality star donned sexy black maternity swimwear for her fun day at the pool
Hot mama-to-be: Snooki's bathing suit billowed over her growing bump and fit her tight on top
Isn't this romantic: Snooki and Jionni enjoyed a cuddly moment in the pool
Snooki was in a mood to share and posted a fun snap of herself on a lounge chair sipping a cool blended beverage by the pool.
'Virgin strawberry daiquiri is where it's at. #preggolife,' Snooki wrote happily.
'Fathers Day dinner,' she wrote in the caption of another sweet family photo of her with son Lorenzo and fiance Jionni at a restaurant.
Chilling out: The former Jersey Shore star enjoyed a cool beverage, writing: 'virgin strawberry daiquiri is where it's at'
'With the pool noodle': Snooki was a proud mom as she shared this sweet snap of her with her son Lorenzo in the water on Sunday
On Saturday, Snooki shared a picture of herself cradling Lorenzo in the pool while showing off her pregnancy figure in a bikini, which boasted a map of what looked like Central America in the interesting pattern.
'Such a mom with the pool noodle. #mybaby,' Snooki tweeted.
On May 8, Snooki announced that she and Jionni were expecting a girl amongst pink balloons in a YouTube video.
'Well, there you have it,' the former Jersey Shore star revealed. 'We're having a little girl. I don't know how to feel about it: I'm terrified but we're really, really excited.'
'I crave a lot of fruits, thank God. Lots of strawberries,' Snooki told E! News in April. 'I can eat a whole bag of salt and vinegar chips like it was nothing.'
Chow time: The family celebrated a special Father's Day dinner on Sunday at the Florida resort
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Residents of a small island village in Stonington hope the state’s plan for their bridge isn’t set in stone.
Well, actually, they do want it set in stone — literally.
Nearly 180 people have signed a petition calling on the Maine Department of Transportation to rethink its plan to replace the Oceanville bridge. They want the department to consider preserving the existing granite stone abutments that have held up the 39-foot span and connected Oceanville with the rest of Stonington for more than 80 years.
Oceanville resident Bill Turner started the petition. He and many petitioners acknowledge that the bridge needs to be replaced, he said. But they questioned DOT’s current plan to build a longer bridge and get rid of the stone abutments, which serve as a nod to Stonington and Deer Isle’s proud history of granite quarrying.
“It’s sort of an iconic little bridge,” Turner said. “[The abutments] are representative of the granite industry that used to thrive here in Stonington.”
DOT is scheduled to replace the bridge — the only way on and off the island of Oceanville — with a new concrete one in 2023 and 2024, to the tune of $3.6 million. A bridge has been there in some form since the 1800s. The current bridge was built in 1940 and updated in 1968.
But the abutments residents want to save are in poor condition, according to DOT, and there are numerous other deficiencies. The bridge can only bear one large truck at a time, it has rusting beams, and its banks are eroding.
The abutments have loose, shifting and missing granite blocks, as well as a noticeable bulge in one of the abutments that could be indicative of movement around the foundation.
DOT considered replacing just the upper portion of the bridge and leaving the abutments, but that idea was scrapped due to high construction costs and a shorter life span than a complete replacement.
The condition of the abutments is driving the need for replacement as much as the steel superstructure, according to DOT.
The current plan is to put in a new 75-foot bridge with concrete abutments and protective riprap.
Turner and other residents went before the Stonington Select Board Monday to ask for their backing in the attempt to preserve the stone. He is hopeful that DOT will listen to their concerns.
“We feel like we are losing our heritage, and one-by-one things are removed, and they don’t come back,” he said.
Stonington was incorporated in 1897 and, at the time, had a dozen granite quarry operations. Granite from Deer Isle-Stonington has been used in several Northeast landmarks, including Grand Central Terminal, the Rockefeller Center skating rink and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The department has received the petition signed by 178 people but hasn’t made any determination on the abutments.
DOT previously said that they planned to work on final design through the rest of the year and into 2023 and construction would begin in fall 2023. A spokesperson said this week that the department is planning to talk to town officials about the issue later this summer.


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This report is part of the “Hate in America“ project produced by the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, a national investigative reporting project by top college journalism students and recent graduates from across the country and headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP, Penn. — It started in 2010, when a black family found shards of glass in their yard, holes cut in the lining of their inflatable pool and a bag of sex toys on their children’s trampoline.
Robert T. Kujawa, 45, had moved in next door earlier that summer. He hung Confederate flags from his windows, but only those facing the home of his black neighbors, Antonio and Biafra Baker. Kujawa called them the N-word.
“The one thing that really broke my heart was the first time my boys asked, ‘Is he going to kill us?’” Biafra Baker recalled.
After seven years and at least two-dozen interactions with local law enforcement, Kujawa was arrested, tried and convicted of two counts of committing ethnic intimidation, Pennsylvania’s equivalent of a hate crime charge.
The federal government and 45 states, including Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, have laws criminalizing bias-motivated crimes, or hate crimes. Arkansas, Indiana, Wyoming, Georgia and South Carolina do not.
But how those laws are enforced largely depends on the law enforcement officer who responds to the call.
“The patrol officer is the most important official with regard to assessing hate crime because if done incorrectly at the entry level, it almost always doesn’t get responded to in the appropriate manner,” said Brian Levin, a former New York Police Department officer who directs the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
The Bakers said local law enforcement told the couple to call them any time Kujawa harrassed the family.
“I can’t speak highly enough of the Bethlehem Township Police Department,” Biafra Baker said. “They worked for us. They really did.”
Officer Jarod Knouss said he responded to at least nine calls from the Bakers from 2010 to 2014. A responding officer usually can tell right away whether a crime was motivated by bias, he said.
“You’re going to know at some point what the reason is behind, ‘This person doesn’t like this person,’ pretty quickly, be it they’re racist or bigoted,” Knouss said. “You know it fairly quickly depending on what they’re doing, so we form our own opinions and conclusions.”
But not all officers are trained specifically to identify a bias crime.
“Police officers, for most crimes, are not rigorously trained to look at motive,” Levin said. “They apprehend; they take reports; they do some investigation, but not like a detective, for instance. And they don’t specialize in these things.”
Sgt. Allen Smith, who oversees the bias-crime unit of the Tucson Police Department, said his officers follow federal guidelines when responding to incidents they suspect are bias-motivated. Officer can check a box on their report to indicate bias was involved.
“Once I get that information, then I send it to my detective that works for me,” Smith said. “He then does the second tier of the federal guideline, investigating, and then does what we call a verification process. He will, if necessary, go out and talk to the folks that are involved.”
In 2016, in Bakersfield, California, Balmeet Singh was standing outside a restaurant when a man approached him, alleging Singh “was going to blow up this country.” The man threatened to kill him, Singh said, before throwing a drink in his face. The man, identified as David Hook, believed that Singh, who is Sikh, was Muslim.
“A complete stranger, someone I’ve never met before in my life, is accusing me of threatening my own home,” Singh said. “I grew up here. I live here. I was born in America, and to hear that really hurt.”
Singh said he called Bakersfield Police immediately after the attack but had to call multiple times before an officer would take a statement.
“The message that I heard was, essentially, ‘If you’re not physically injured, go home.’” Singh said.
Bernard Melekian, former director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, said law enforcement agencies should investigate bias crimes thoroughly regardless of whether they have a bias-crime unit or liaison.
“I don’t know that they’re are necessary,” Melekian said. “I think as a matter of routine operation, it’s the responsibility of law enforcement to conduct those investigations appropriately and thoroughly.”
Melekian is chairman of the board of the Police Foundation, a Washington, D.C., organization that works to improve policing practices nationwide.
“At some point, we finally as a profession came to realize that community policing wasn’t just having a program, it wasn’t just having a bike patrol or a storefront operation. It had to be an operating philosophy,” Melekian said. “And I think in some ways the same thing is true for hate crime investigation. It needs to become an operating philosophy for the entire department rather than the responsibility of a handful of specially trained investigators.”
In Sacramento, the police department has specific orders addressing hate and bias crimes, spokesman Eddie Macaulay said.
“It specifically states if the perception of either of the witnesses or the victims in any particular case feel that it’s bias-related, the officer shall report it and document it as a bias-related incident,” McCauley said. “If someone feels that they were targeted because of any of the hate related statutes, that’s recorded and documented to make sure that it’s investigated properly.”
According to a News 21 analysis of federal survey data, fewer than half of the crimes that victims suspected were motivated by hate were reported to the police. Of those, victims said only 4 percent were verified as hate crimes by law enforcement.
When a bias crime is prosecuted, some cases are filed in state courts while others are handled by the FBI and federal prosecutors.
For the Bakers of Bethlehem Township, their case against Kujawa was prosecuted in state court. Under Pennsylvania law, evidence of “malicious intention” against a victim is needed to prove ethnic intimidation. “Malicious intention” is defined as the intention to commit a crime based on hatred of an individual or group’s race, color, religion or national origin.
“Our opinions don’t mean much unless that info is there to back it up,” Knouss said.
At first, officers didn’t have enough evidence to conclude that Kujawa was committing a hate crime, he said. That changed when Biafra and Antonio Baker started wearing body cameras.
One video they took shows Kujawa exposing himself while accusing Biafra Baker of harassment. In another video, Kujawa can be heard yelling, “(Expletive) you and your wife!”
The videos were part of the evidence used in court to convict Kujawa of two counts of ethnic intimidation. In May, he was sentenced to two to four years in state prison.
In Singh’s case in Bakersfield, Kern County Assistant District Attorney Scott Spielman supervised prosecutors.
“We saw that the elements were met for a hate crime, and we filed it as a misdemeanor because there wasn’t any type of injury involved,” Spielman said. “There was an actual battery because there was contact made, so it wasn’t just an assault.”
Spielman’s office filed misdemeanor charges against Hook, the man who threatened Singh, under California’s hate crime statute.
“It’s like any other crime,” the prosecutor said. “When it comes in, you take a look first and try to determine what happened. If you need further investigation, you ask for that to be done. Once you determine what happened, then you take a look at the law and figure out what crimes have been committed.”
Hook pleaded no contest and was given three years of probation.
Hate cases also can be investigated and prosecuted at the federal level, although that’s uncommon. Only 100 hate crimes were pursued by federal prosecutors from 47 federal-court districts from January 2010 to July 2018, according to a News21 analysis.
Cynthia Deitle, a former FBI agent who now works for the Matthew Shepard Foundation, said there is no single standard for how the FBI decides which cases to investigate.
“There is no uniform process, so every case in every city and every state is going to be different,” Deitle said.
The FBI might intervene if federal authorities believe justice was not served at the state level, if the crime has national implications or occurs in a state without hate crime laws.
“There are many cases where a hate crime occurred, a state or local police department and the ADA (assistant district attorney) get involved, and they (defendants) plead out to a misdemeanor, and the crime that occurred would have been considered a federal felony punishable by 15 years in federal prison,” Deitle said.
Dietle said every FBI investigation is reviewed and approved by top officials with the Department of Justice.
“It has to go all the way to the attorney general or his designee to approve that charge for that case,” Deitle said. “It can’t just be a local United States attorney or the FBI. They don’t have the authority to do that.”
In January 2011, the FBI investigated a case in Spokane, Washington, in which an explosive device was found at a Martin Luther King Jr. Unity March. Almost 2,000 people, including racial minorities, attended the march, according to reports from the Justice Department.
According to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent John T. Slack, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office explosive-disposal unit responded to a report of a backpack containing “suspicious wires” that had been left along the route of the march. In the bag, officers found a functional improvised explosive device, which they disabled before turning it over to a FBI bomb technician for further investigation
An FBI laboratory found DNA belonging to Kevin William Harpham of Colville, Washington, on the backpack, Slack’s affidavit said. Federal investigators also traced parts of the bomb to purchases made by Harpham. A sentencing memorandum from federal prosecutors said Harpham admitted to being a white supremacist and member of the white supremacy organization National Alliance.
In December 2011, a federal judge sentenced Harpham to 32 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to use an explosive device to cause bodily injury based on actual or perceived race, color and national origins of his potential victims.
While the Spokane Police Department works with the FBI to investigate explosive devices, O’Brien said it was the FBI’s decision to investigate the case as a hate crime.
Knouss, the Bethlehem Township officer who worked with the Bakers, said the process for proving ethnic intimidation took time.
“Ethnic intimidation is a big charge and a little bit more involved to prove,” Knouss said. “But give someone time and their true colors come out.”
News21 reporters Jimmie Jackson and Lenny Martinez Dominguez contributed to this article.
Connor Murphy is a Donald W. Reynolds Fellow, and Jimmie Jackson is a Hearst Foundation Fellow.
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Chicago singer-songwriter Ezra Furman has announced an upcoming studio album with the release of a new Noel Paul–directed video for the new single ‘Forever in Sunset’.
The album, titled All of Us Flames, is slated for its full release on August 26th via Anti- records. The announcement has also come with a run of newly booked tour dates. The tour kicks off next week in Los Angeles with dates following across Canada and the USA before she takes the show to the UK and Europe from July.
‘Forever in Sunset’ follows the previous singles ‘Book of Our Names’ and ‘Point Me Toward the Real’, which were the first to preview the new album. The latest single adds a new piece to the puzzle of All Us Flames with an atmospheric and moody soundscape that builds into soaring anthemic energy towards the end.
The stream of consciousness lyrics appears self-reflective, while the official video created to accompany depicts a rowdy scene in a bar where all sorts of different characters begin to bustle on the dancefloor amid lovelorn stares.
All of Us Flames was produced by John Congleton. Of the new album, Furman said in a statement: “This is a first-person plural album. It’s a queer album for the stage of life when you start to understand that you are not a lone wolf, but depend on finding your family, your people, how you work as part of a larger whole. I wanted to make songs for use by threatened communities, and particularly the ones I belong to, trans people and Jews.”
The tracklist for All of Us Flames is as follows:
- Train Comes Through
- Dressed in Black
- Forever in Sunset
- Book Of Our Names
- Point Me Toward the Real
- Lilac and Black
- Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club
- Poor Girl A Long Way From Heaven
- Temple Of Broken Dreams
- I Saw the Truth Undressing
- Come Close
Watch the new official video for Ezra Furman’s new single, ‘Forever in Sunset’, below.