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As queer community mourns loss of 19 Bar, Walker Art Center hosts celebration of its past
MINNEAPOLIS — An anchor of the LGBTQ+ community and Loring Park neighborhood in Minneapolis is getting a wealth of support after a devastating fire.
Nearly a week ago, 19 Bar was badly damaged after a garbage truck hit a power pole that landed on the building, sparking flames.
No one was hurt, but the loss is hitting the queer community hard.
“It’s just so weird not having that place to go to on the way home from work,” said Bubba Thurn, a regular customer and friend of the staff at 19 Bar.
Eight workers there are now without a job after the fire. The bar opened in the 1950s and is the oldest gay bar in the state, if not the region.
“You always expect it to be there. When you come to the Pride Festival every year, you expect to at least run into your friends if you moved away from the neighborhood at the 19 Bar,” said Thurn.
Sharing in that sadness has been tough, especially when their preferred gathering spot is what was lost.
But just down the street at the Walker Art Center, a colorful opportunity awaits.
“We just started brainstorming about what can we do? And so we came up with the idea to celebrate the 19 Bar tonight,” said Rachel Joyce, associate director of public relations at the Walker.
Coincidentally, there’s an exhibit at the Walker paying homage to the New Eagle Creek Saloon, the first Black-owned gay bar in San Francisco.
Events are held there weekly. Joyce said the artist, Sadie Barnette, was more than happy to welcome people into the space to honor 19 Bar.
Photos submitted by its customers will be projected across the wall as bartenders and a DJ curate the atmosphere people now miss.
“I am really hoping that it’s a joyful moment to reminisce on good times at the 19 Bar and a way to look towards the future,” said Joyce, adding that staff at the Walker frequent 19 Bar.
“I’ll be there and of course the 19 staff will be there,” said Thurn. “It will be nice to reconnect with a lot of people, too.”
In the meantime, two online fundraisers have raised nearly $30,000 combine to help the out-of-work staff make ends meet.
“I’m very proud of the queer and Loring Park community,” Thurn said.
In talking with the bar’s owners, Thurn said they are eager to eventually reopen the bar. It’s unclear if that will be possible by the time Pride Festival happens in late June.
Jeff Wagner
As queer community mourns loss of 19 Bar, Walker Art Center hosts celebration of its past
MINNEAPOLIS — An anchor of the LGBTQ+ community and Loring Park neighborhood in Minneapolis is getting a wealth of support after a devastating fire.
Nearly a week ago, 19 Bar was badly damaged after a garbage truck hit a power pole that landed on the building, sparking flames.
No one was hurt, but the loss is hitting the queer community hard.
“It’s just so weird not having that place to go to on the way home from work,” said Bubba Thurn, a regular customer and friend of the staff at 19 Bar.
Eight workers there are now without a job after the fire. The bar opened in the 1950s and is the oldest gay bar in the state, if not the region.
“You always expect it to be there. When you come to the Pride Festival every year, you expect to at least run into your friends if you moved away from the neighborhood at the 19 Bar,” said Thurn.
Sharing in that sadness has been tough, especially when their preferred gathering spot is what was lost.
But just down the street at the Walker Art Center, a colorful opportunity awaits.
“We just started brainstorming about what can we do? And so we came up with the idea to celebrate the 19 Bar tonight,” said Rachel Joyce, associate director of public relations at the Walker.
Coincidentally, there’s an exhibit at the Walker paying homage to the New Eagle Creek Saloon, the first Black-owned gay bar in San Francisco.
Events are held there weekly. Joyce said the artist, Sadie Barnette, was more than happy to welcome people into the space to honor 19 Bar.
Photos submitted by its customers will be projected across the wall as bartenders and a DJ curate the atmosphere people now miss.
“I am really hoping that it’s a joyful moment to reminisce on good times at the 19 Bar and a way to look towards the future,” said Joyce, adding that staff at the Walker frequent 19 Bar.
“I’ll be there and of course the 19 staff will be there,” said Thurn. “It will be nice to reconnect with a lot of people, too.”
In the meantime, two online fundraisers have raised nearly $30,000 combine to help the out-of-work staff make ends meet.
“I’m very proud of the queer and Loring Park community,” Thurn said.
In talking with the bar’s owners, Thurn said they are eager to eventually reopen the bar. It’s unclear if that will be possible by the time Pride Festival happens in late June.
Jeff Wagner
3D printer constructs stunning data center hands-free in 140 hours
In the heart of Germany, a groundbreaking project has emerged, marrying the worlds of technology and architecture in a way never seen before.
The Wave House, a new data center located in an urban area of Heidelberg, stands as a testament to innovation, being Europe’s largest 3D-printed building to date.
Data centers, the backbone of our digital lives, are often relegated to nondescript, windowless buildings due to security and operational requirements. However, the push to bring these essential facilities closer to urban centers demanded a rethink in their design approach.
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Enter the Wave House, which challenges the status quo with its visually arresting wave-designed walls — a feature that not only lends the building its name but also marks a significant departure from conventional data center aesthetics. It measures 6,600 sq. ft. and was designed by SSV and Mense Korte and created by Peri 3D Construction for developer KrausGruppe.
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The distinctive curvature of the Wave House’s walls could not have been achieved through traditional building methods. Instead, the project leveraged 3D construction printing technology, specifically the COBOD BOD2 printer.
This machine pushed out a recyclable cement-like mixture to form the building’s exterior. Achieving an impressive rate of 43 square feet per hour, the printer completed the walls in just 140 hours, demonstrating the efficiency and versatility of 3D printing in modern construction.
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Beyond its aesthetic appeal, the Wave House represents a stride forward in sustainable building practices. The 3D-printed construction process emits significantly less CO2 compared to traditional methods, aligning with global efforts to reduce the environmental footprint of new developments.
Furthermore, the project showcases the potential for reducing costs and construction times, making it a compelling case study for future urban planning initiatives.
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A milestone for 3D-printed architecture
The inauguration of the Wave House not only marks a significant advancement for the construction industry but also signals the growing acceptance of 3D-printed architecture in mainstream applications. From earthquake-resistant homes to ambitious developments of 100 3D-printed houses, the technology is proving its worth across a diverse range of projects.
COBOD, the company behind the technology, aims to automate at least 50% of building site processes, promising efficiency gains and potentially reshaping the labor landscape in construction.
The Wave House in Heidelberg is more than just a data center; it’s a symbol of architectural innovation and a showcase for the potential of 3D printing in construction. By blending functionality with style, the project addresses the evolving needs of urban infrastructure and sets a new standard for data centers worldwide. As 3D printing technology continues to evolve, we can expect to see more projects that challenge traditional architectural norms, offering sustainable, efficient and visually compelling solutions for the cities of tomorrow.
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Russia strikes blood transfusion center as world leaders meet to discuss peace
A Russian “guided air bomb” hit a blood transfusion center in northeast Ukraine Saturday night, killing two people and injuring four, Ukrainian officials said.
“This war crime alone says everything about Russian aggression,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in Telegram post, alongside a picture of a building engulfed in flames.
He said that a “guided air bomb” had hit the blood transfusion center in the northeastern city of Kupiansk.
In a separate post on his own Telegram channel, regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said initial reports suggested two men had died and another four were injured in the “large scale fire.”
Houses and farm buildings were also damaged, he said, adding that residential housing and other agricultural buildings had also been struck in nearby villages.
NBC News could not independently verify these claims, and Russia has repeatedly denied deliberately targeting civilians in what it calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine, although Western leaders and Ukraine’s armed forces estimate thousands of people, both military members and civilians, have been killed, and millions more displaced.
The city of Kupiansk and its outlying settlements are in Kharkiv, which were seized by Russian troops in the early days of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The area was liberated during a Ukrainian counteroffensive in September but has since come under heavy shelling and attacks.
Elsewhere, the Moscow-appointed head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, said in a Telegram post that the Chongar Bridge, which links the peninsula to the Russian occupied Ukrainian mainland, had been hit with a “missile strike.”
“One hit, some of the missiles were shot down by air defense forces,” he said. “There is damage to the roadbed of the automobile bridge, repair work is already beginning. There are no victims.”
Farther north, Alexei Kulemzin, the Russian-installed mayor of the city of Donetsk said a fire had broken out at the University of Economics and Trade after 40 missiles were fired in its vicinity.
Alexei Kostrubitsky, the Russian-installed Donetsk regional emergency minister, told Reuters that Ukrainian forces had used cluster munitions in the shelling, which had caused the fire.
NBC News could not verify these claims, but both sides have used cluster munitions over the course of the invasion.
The intense overnight fighting came as officials from 40 different countries, including the U.S. and China, met in Jeddah to begin Ukraine-organized peace talks seeking to find a way to start negotiations over Russia’s war on the country.
Ukrainian and Western diplomats hope that the senior officials from countries across both the global North and South will agree on key principles for a future peace settlement to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. Russia was not invited.
The renewed global push to peace comes as Russia exited a Turkey and U.N.-backed deal in July allowing for the safe export of Ukrainian grain, causing a jump in global food prices.
Russia strikes Ukraine blood transfusion center; multiple dead and injured reported
Russian forces struck a blood transfusion center in the Kharkiv region of northeast Ukraine, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday, adding that “dead and wounded are reported”.
A “guided air bomb” hit the center in Kupiansk, a city a few dozen kilometers from the Russian border, Zelenskyy said on social media, adding that “rescuers are extinguishing the fire”.
A statement put out on social media by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said the missiles, “destroyed the city’s blood transfusion center.”
Last week there were four consecutive days of drone strikes between Russia and Ukraine. Russia hit a crucial port in Southern Ukraine that used to export grain, and a hospital in Kherson, in the southeast of the country.
Ukraine’s drones hit a skyscraper in Moscow twice in two days.
The intensifying attacks are seen as retaliation to Ukraine’s attempt to bring the war to Russia’s soil.
Reporting contributed by Ramy Inocencio, Barny Smith, Tucker Reals
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DNA leads to true identity of woman at center of bizarre “Mom-In-The-Box” cold case in California
Police have finally identified a woman who was found dead in a California home nearly a decade ago — as well as the body of another person who was discovered inside a box under her kitchen table.
The bizarre case began in February 2014, when the Monterey Police Department responded to the death of a woman, who was identified by her driver’s license as 58-year-old Francesca Linda Jacobs. Police said in a news release that Jacobs died from starvation and they did not suspect foul play, but while at her home they found the “decomposed remains of another person inside a box under the kitchen table.”
Foul play could not be ruled out, police said, and a search of the apartment found that Francesca Jacobs had left a handwritten will naming the woman in the box as her mother, who she identified as Florence Jacobs. The investigation soon became known as the “Mom-In-The-Box” case.
Soon, though, police began to find discrepancies in the case: Francesca Jacobs appeared much older than the age on her driver’s license, and the license seemed to show a much older woman. Records about her life only began in the 1990s, and almost no records could be found for Florence Jacobs.
In late 2022, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office Cold Case Task Force began working with the sheriff’s office to try to identify all unknown humans remains cases in the county, including the “Mom-In-The-Box” case. Samples from both women were used to create DNA profiles that were tested by a private forensics lab in Texas.
The process led to what police called “surprising facts” in the case. The woman who had named herself Francesca Jacobs was actually Linda Rae Jacobs, born in 1942, not 1955. The DNA analysis confirmed that the woman in the box was her mother, Ida Florence Jacobs. Using these new developments, detectives were able to contact relatives of the women.
One relative included a previous husband who “helped confirm the true identities and the unusually strong life-long bond between daughter and mother.”
The investigation confirmed that there was no foul play suspected in the death of Ida Florence Jacobs. However, the biggest question in the case remains unanswered.
“The reasons Linda Rae Jacobs assumed a new name or why she would keep her mother’s body in a box under the kitchen table will likely never be known,” police said.
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Judge Maryellen Noreika lands in the center of the Hunter Biden criminal case
WILMINGTON, Del. — When U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika started quizzing lawyers in her courtroom on Wednesday about a plea deal — what is normally a routine process — her questions about the constitutionality of the arrangement pushed her into the center of a spotlight of an already heated political fight.
The Delaware judge raised numerous concerns over the deal, causing those on the left to accuse her, a former President Donald Trump appointee, of yielding to political pressure from Republicans. And while the opposite side of the aisle was slightly pleased by her decision, it wasn’t what they had hoped for — having her toss the whole thing out.
“Every judge has to be appointed by a president from one party or another — that’s how you get the job,” said former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, a frequent critic of Trump. “But most of the judges are just like this judge in Delaware, they’re committed, experienced people, and when they rule cases, it’s a ruling that’s based on the facts and the evidence.”
Noreika was appointed as a federal judge in 2018 by the Trump administration, but she received the endorsement of Sens. Tom Carper and Chris Coons, both Delaware Democrats, at her nomination. Nevertheless, the fact she was appointed by Trump and has other ties to the Republican Party has some criticizing her as potentially partisan — and others arguing that she would counter any bias from the current Justice Department that is overseen by a Biden appointee.
“I’m pleased that the White House consulted with Sen. Carper and me and accepted our recommendations for the U.S. District Court bench,” Coons, a close ally of the Biden administration, said when Noreika was first nominated in 2018. The senator added that Noreika and another nominee to the same court were “seasoned attorneys, with impressive trial skills, deep experience in federal practice and profound respect for the law. I am confident that they will both be capable jurists, and I look forward to their confirmation hearings.”
Noreika earned a masters degree in biology from Columbia before she ultimately graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She became a celebrated attorney in Delaware trying cases as a corporate litigator with Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell, specializing in intellectual property and patent law cases. She earned numerous honors and awards for her legal practice, according to the questionnaire she provided the Judiciary Committee for her nomination.
She came to the bench with more than 20 years of civil trial experience, rather than trying criminal cases, which could explain her decision to tread carefully over such a high-profile criminal case.
While the judge has no overt political ties, she has made a number of political donations, beginning in 1999 and extending through 2014, according to public records. While she contributed to some Democrats, her preference appeared to lean toward Republicans.
Noreika’s first donation was a $100 contribution to Democrat Ruth Ann Minner, who was the first woman to be elected governor of Delaware in 2000. Minner was a moderate Democrat with farming roots from the southern part of the state who championed fiscally conservative positions and progressive social policies. Noreika also contributed $1,000 to Hillary Clinton in 2008 and $1,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
She then donated thousands of dollars to Republicans Mitt Romney and Tom Cotton, who are both now serving in the U.S. Senate.
Noreika’s views regarding Hunter Biden and the White House aren’t known. This also isn’t the first legal issue that Noreika has faced on the bench related to the Bidens.
She tossed out a defamation lawsuit brought by John Paul Mac Isaac, the man who was hired to repair Hunter Biden’s laptop and then played a role in it becoming public. He sued CNN, Politico and Hunter Biden himself.
Still, seeming to surprise prosecutors, defense lawyers and observers, Noreika had several issues with the plea agreement in Wednesday’s hearing. She expressed concern about whether the agreement was constitutional, whether it truly gave Hunter Biden the legal protections he was due, and whether it was airtight, meaning there could be questions raised in the future about what it covered.
“Mr Biden, I know you want to get this over with, and I’m sorry,” she said from the bench on Wednesday. “But I do want to make sure that I am careful in my view of this, so I do need some more information. And part of that is making sure that your plea gets you what you think it gets and part of it is making sure that I do justice as I’m required to do in this court.”
There were two parts to the original deal between Hunter Biden and prosecutors: a plea agreement for the misdemeanor tax charges and a diversion agreement for a separate felony gun charge.
Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed to require Hunter Biden to follow a strict set of rules for 24 months to avoid the gun charge. The deal would require any future violation to the diversion be vetted by Noreika before a charge could be filed, according to court documents — an added layer that drew scrutiny.
Chris Clark, Hunter Biden’s attorney, explained in court that they added the layer so that the president’s son wouldn’t have to worry that a future administration could abandon the agreement for political reasons, saying it was “so that wouldn’t be something that would become more politicized, but rather would be something that the parties could rely on, someone we consider a neutral arbiter to determine the breach, not the charge.”
Noreika raised concerns that having her oversee the diversion agreement was “outside of my lane in terms of what I am allowed to do” constitutionally.
“That choice as to whether to bring charges, that’s the executive branch, not the judicial branch,” she said. “So is this even constitutional?”
Vance said the inclusion of that added layer was a reflection of the partisan divisions the country face, particularly as Trump, his family and his allies have directed attacks directly at the president’s son.
“I can’t think of any case where you’ve ever had to take account in devising a plea agreement of the possibility that the next president of the United States might exact personal revenge on a defendant,” she said. “And so prosecutors and defense alike have to bend over backwards to prevent that. That’s so far beyond the realm and scope of what prosecutors do, but it’s the reality.”
Noreika raised other concerns, saying she was being asked to act as “a rubber stamp” over the tax charges.
Vance predicted that the two sides would “tweak the plea agreement to make it work,” and then Noreika would accept it.
