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FBI Drops Probe of Atlantis Gay Cruise Prompted by Suspected OD of ‘Storm Chasers’ Star Joel Taylor
FBI Drops Probe of Atlantis Gay Cruise Prompted by Suspected OD of ‘Storm Chasers’ Star Joel Taylor
The FBI has dropped an investigation of the Atlantis Events’ all-gay Caribbean Cruise on which Storm Chasers star Joel Taylor died of a suspected overdose this week after concluding that Taylor’s death was not the result of a violent crime.
The cruise is scheduled to return to Fort Lauderdale today.
Taylor’s family identified his body in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Wednesday and an autopsy was conducted before his body was released, People reports. The toxicology report and results of the autopsy have not yet been released.
A funeral is scheduled for Monday in Taylor’s home town of Elk City, Oklahoma.
Osorio says FBI members conducted a preliminary investigation on the cruise ship Taylor died on this week, and concluded his death was not the result of a violent crime. That, coupled with other factors he wouldn’t elaborate on, made U.S. officials determine the case was no longer in the FBI’s jurisdiction.
Here’s the catch — if it’s determined Taylor’s death is linked to murder … we’re told the feds could reopen the investigation. That doesn’t seem likely — Taylor’s death appears to be tied to a drug OD.
As we reported … Taylor was so out of it after consuming what we’re told was GHB that he was rendered unconscious on the dance floor and had to be carried to his room. Passengers told us drug us was rampant on the cruise ship as passengers partied.
No arrests have been made, and local police in San Juan are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding Taylor’s demise.
The investigation has been given back to local authorities, according to TMZ.
The Blast reports that two men boarding the cruise in Fort Lauderdale were arrested bringing drugs aboard the ship:
Officers say that after a cabin search of passengers Nicholas Andrew Bian and Noel Antonio Gonzalez it was discovered the two men brought a ton of illegal drugs on board.
Bian was found in possession of 25 ecstasy pills and arrested for 1 felony count of trafficking MDMA. Gonzalez was found in possession of ecstasy and a baby powder container filled with 7.87 grams of Ketamine. He was charged with 2 felony counts, possession with intent to sell for the Ecstasy and possession of a controlled substance for the Ketamine.
Both men were transported to the local jail.
Additionally, it has been reported that adult performer Dirk Caber was hospitalized and left the ship after being found unconscious. It was reported that he was diagnosed with pneumonia (wk-unfriendly link). Reports involving a ‘chemical incident’ remain unverified.
Atlantis Events responded to an inquiry from Hornet about Taylor’s death and additional medical incidents:
There have been no additional medical incidents of any significance, including deaths, onboard this charter. For further information about guest medical incidents please contact Royal Caribbean Corporate communications. As the charterer of the ship, we have no access to specific case information.
We were saddened to learn of the death of Mr. Taylor this week as he was a loyal guest and member of our community. His loss will be felt by the many who had the pleasure of knowing him.
Storm Chasers aligned this week over Oklahoma to create a tribute to Taylor by spelling his initials with location beacons.
We are uniting once again to say goodbye and give our fallen comrade, a storm chaser’s salute. Each dot represents a storm chaser’s location beacon to spell out his initials. We will miss you, Joel Taylor. pic.twitter.com/lF98SsD40v
— Gerard Jebaily (@GerardJebaily) January 24, 2018
Storm Chasers honoring a fellow storm chaser. Such a cool sight! Rest easy Joel Taylor #RIPJoelTaylor pic.twitter.com/iBrxj1IIBE
— Aarron Weets (@AarronWeets) January 24, 2018
.@spotternetwork chasers have joined together to pay their respects after losing one of or own, Joel Taylor. “JT” with Elk City, OK, his hometown, in the center. pic.twitter.com/BEasrF49He
— Ryan Hickman (@ryanhickman) January 24, 2018
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FBI Drops Probe of Atlantis Gay Cruise Prompted by Suspected OD of ‘Storm Chasers’ Star Joel Taylor
Aldi Nord ruft Spargel zurück – wegen Glassplittern
Aldi Nord ruft Spargel zurück – wegen Glassplittern
- Der Discounter Aldi Nord ruft eine Charge Spargelabschnitte zurück
- Betroffenen werde der Preis zurückerstattet
Aldi-Kunden und Spargel-Liebhaber sollten noch einmal ihre letzten Einkäufe checken: Der Discounter ruft die Gläser “King’s Crown Spargelabschnitte“ mit 314 Millilitern Inhalt zurück.
► Der Grund: Es seien Glassplitter in den Spargelabschnitten gefunden worden.
Aldi Nord schreibt auf seiner Webseite, dass die Gläser mit dem Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum 30.06.2020 und der Charge L01081201705153700 / 01090 nicht mehr verzehrt werden sollten.
Mehr zum Thema: Als erster Discounter: Aldi bietet jetzt eine neue Zahlungsmöglichkeit
Der Preis wird zurückerstattet
► Betroffene können die Ware in allen Aldi-Nord-Filialen zurückgeben – der Kaufpreis werde zurückerstattet.
Das Produkt des Herstellers “MERKUR Aussenhandel“ sei nur in den Aldi Gesellschaften Bargteheide, Barleben, Berlin, Beucha, Greven, Lingen, Mittenwald, Salzgitter, Weimar und Wilsdruff verkauft worden.
► Laut Aldi Nord sind andere Chargen oder Mindesthaltbarkeitsdaten nicht betroffen.
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Compensation Lawyers To Be Banned From Advertising Or Approaching Families In Hospitals
Compensation Lawyers To Be Banned From Advertising Or Approaching Families In Hospitals
Lawyers looking to drum up compensation claims against the NHS will be banned from advertising or working in hospitals from next month.
From February, law firms and claims management companies will be denied office space or advertising opportunities and NHS England said “every effort” should be made to prevent them from approaching patients or families in hospital without permission, The Press Association reports.
The health service spent £1.7 billion on clinical negligence claims in 2016/17, with legal costs accounting for an estimated 36% of the total bill, according to the latest NHS Resolution figures.
The changes to the NHS Standard Contract were first outlined last March in the Next Steps section of the NHS Five Year Forward View.
At the time, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said: “We want lawyers out of hospital and doctors out of court.”
The ban, which will not impact on law firms who run pro bono schemes in major trauma centres, will come into force on February 1.
An NHS England spokesman said: “Money spent defending speculative legal claims is money hospitals can’t then spend on looking after patients.
“That’s why legal firms who pursue the NHS should not advertise in or operate from our hospitals.
“From February, trusts are now prohibited from entering or renewing agreements with firms who want to sue them.
“Staying in hospital is often a traumatic experience, one that is made worse by lawyers soliciting patients or their families for business – a practice we are also calling on Trusts to do all they can to stop.”
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hospital_uk_5a6c9949e4b0ddb658c6d2fa
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Juan Camilo Velez is changing the way we think about Colombia, one hunky Instagram post at a time
Juan Camilo Velez is changing the way we think about Colombia, one hunky Instagram post at a time
The 27-year-old uses his travel blog to show Colombia’s peaceful beauty. And perhaps a bit of his own, too.
Josh Weed, Gay Mormon Famous for ‘Sexually Robust’ Straight Marriage, Is Divorcing
Josh Weed, Gay Mormon Famous for ‘Sexually Robust’ Straight Marriage, Is Divorcing
Josh Weed, the gay Mormon who in 2012 made national headlines as he set out to prove that a gay man could be happily married to a straight woman and have kids, is divorcing.
In 2012, Weed made this announcement about his marriage:
Some might assume that because I’m married to a woman, I must be bisexual. This would be true if sexual orientation was defined by sexual experience. Heck, if sexual orientation were defined by sexual experience, I would be as straight as the day is long even though I’ve never been turned on by a Victoria’s Secret commercial in my entire life. Sexual orientation is defined by attraction, not by experience. In my case, I am attracted sexually to men. Period. Yet my marriage is wonderful, and Lolly and I have an extremely healthy and robust sex life. How can this be?
Shortly thereafter, there were charges that Weed practiced “ex-gay” therapy, accusations which Weed strongly denied.
I do not practice, nor do I believe in, reparative therapy or change therapy. Quite the opposite, my therapeutic stance is one that favors (but does not depend on) the idea that sexual orientation is immutable.
My therapeutic approach is to meet clients where they are–wherever that might be–and then help them to analyze the goals and aspirations that they have for their own life.
Weed and his wife Lolly were even featured on a Nightline episode championing their foray into the world of married platonic love, announced the divorce in a lengthy blog post which you can read HERE.
“Today, we need to let you know that Lolly and I are divorcing,” the blog said this week, after recounting the couple’s accidental rise to the media spotlight when Josh Weed came out as a gay LDS man who was faithful to his church and married to a woman. They were in high demand to explain how they made the seemingly contradictory lifestyles work together.
The couple wrote, together and then individually in the same blog post on Thursday, that they came to understand over time that their deep platonic love was not a substitute for romantic love and that such a relationship is vital to everyone’s happiness.
They explain at length how they came to the realization. Josh Weed said three factors led him to believe this was the case.
Love for the LGBTQ population
Love for himself as a gay person
The death of his mother
Read Weed’s full post here.
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Josh Weed, Gay Mormon Famous for ‘Sexually Robust’ Straight Marriage, Is Divorcing
Kabul Bomb, Hidden In Ambulance, Kills At Least 95 People And Wounds 158
Kabul Bomb, Hidden In Ambulance, Kills At Least 95 People And Wounds 158
A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 95 people and wounded 158 in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday when it blew up at a police checkpoint on Saturday.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide blast, a week after they claimed the attack on the city’s Intercontinental Hotel in which more than 20 people were killed.
An interior ministry spokesman blamed the Haqqani network, a militant group affiliated with the Taliban which Afghan and Western officials consider to be behind many of the biggest attacks on urban targets in Afghanistan.
Hours after the blast, a health ministry spokesman said the casualty toll was likely to rise as more figures were collated from hospitals.
As medical teams struggled to handle the casualties pouring in, some of the wounded were laid out in the open, with intravenous drips set up next to them in hospital gardens.
“It’s a massacre,” said Dejan Panic, coordinator in Afghanistan for the Italian aid group Emergency, which runs a nearby trauma hospital.
The latest attack will add pressure on President Ashraf Ghani and his U.S. allies, who have expressed growing confidence that a new more aggressive military strategy has succeeded in driving Taliban insurgents back from major provincial centres.
The United States has stepped up its assistance to Afghan security forces and increased its air strikes against the Taliban and other militant groups, aiming to break a stalemate and force the insurgents to the negotiating table.
However, the Taliban has dismissed suggestions it has been weakened by the new strategy, and the incidents of the past week have shown its capacity to mount deadly, high-profile attacks is undiminished, even in the heavily protected centre of Kabul.
Mirwais Yasini, a member of parliament who was nearby when the explosion occurred, said an ambulance approached the checkpoint and blew up. The target was apparently an interior ministry building nearby.
Buildings hundreds of metres away were shaken by the force of the blast, which left torn bodies strewn on the street amid piles of rubble, debris and wrecked cars.
Saturday is a working day in Afghanistan and the streets were full when the blast went off at around lunchtime in a busy part of the city near a number of foreign embassies and government buildings.
The casualty toll is the worst since 150 people were killed in a truck bomb explosion near the German embassy, not far from Saturday’s blast, last May, an attack that prompted a major reinforcement of security in the city.
With much of central Kabul now a heavily fortified zone of high concrete blast walls and police checkpoints, there were angry questions about how the bomber had been able to get through and set off the blast.
“I was sitting in the office when the explosion went off,” said Alam, an office worker whose head was badly cut in the blast.
“All the windows shattered, the building collapsed and everything came down.”
People helped walking-wounded away as ambulances with sirens wailing inched their way through the traffic-clogged streets of the city centre.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kabul-bomb-blast_uk_5a6c811de4b0ddb658c6cc17
Reba McEntire Dons Colonel Sanders Drag for New KFC Campaign
Reba McEntire Dons Colonel Sanders Drag for New KFC Campaign
The Grammy winner is the latest celebrity and the first woman to play the iconic KFC spokesperson.
www.advocate.com/business/2018/1/27/reba-mcentire-dons-colonel-sanders-drag-new-kfc-campaign
