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» Orlando-area cop is latest to faint after allegedly being near fentanyl on a windy day

Bodycam footage from the Tavares Police Department is the latest addition to the nationwide fentanyl panic that has turned police departments across the country into collections of fainting goats. Though you cannot overdose on fentanyl by touching it, Tavares Police Officer Courtney Bannick suffered some distressing symptoms after a traffic stop on Tuesday night. She was treated by her fellow officers after they heard choking sounds coming from her radio. They administered Narcan on the officer three times before she came back to her senses. Other police at the scene say they believe Bannick came in contact with fentanyl while handling dollar bills that had the opioid on it. They noted that she was wearing gloves while handling the bills and hypothesized that some of the fentanyl got into her system on — and this is serious here — a gust of wind.

As we have said many times before, the danger of fentanyl lies in the way it kills people who use drugs. Its propensity for turning up in other drugs that are frequently taken at much higher doses and its relative potency compared to other opioids make it a dangerous drug to ingest. Passive fentanyl exposure is extremely unlikely to cause an overdose. If you need proof, look outside your front door. The entire country is suffering through an opioid crisis exacerbated by fentanyl’s spread. Yet only cops manage to fall out from being in the room with the drug. If “fentanyl exposure” were a true risk, you would hear more about it from regular people (and medical professionals who administer the opioid in professional settings). In Tavares, as elsewhere, what we are witnessing is a panic attack brought on by fears of fentanyl that the cops have helped create.

If you want an infinitely more provable story out of the Tavares Police Department, why not take a look at the bodycam footage of one of their officers using a taser on a man inside his own home? And take a second to consider the ways that the news cycle and SEO can push one story out of discussion.

» Florida school districts revise LGBTQ support guides, sports policies due to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ scrutiny

Ten school districts whose LGBTQ support guides and other policies were called into question by the state Board of Education are in various stages of revising the documents, or in some cases have dropped the disputed guides, according to responses the board discussed last Wednesday. State officials are scrutinizing the districts’ guides to ensure that they comply with a 2021 law known as the “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” which deals with what families are entitled to know about their children’s education and health care. The review also addresses a state Board of Education rule guiding bathroom and locker-room access, as well as a controversial new law formally titled “Parental Rights in Education.”

That law, passed by the Legislature this year, requires that parents be notified of any “change in the student’s services or monitoring related to the student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being and the school’s ability to provide a safe and supportive learning environment” for the student. Critics of the law have focused on a provision in the law that prohibits classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity for early grades, disparagingly dubbing it the “Don’t Say Gay” measure.

Leon County school officials, for example, are in the process of revising guidelines called the “Inclusive School Guide for LCS Employees,” and are poised to adopt new procedures related to issues such as transgender students’ participation in sports. The district is proposing to adopt language from a state law known as the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” which requires that athletic “teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls may not be open to students of the male sex.”

» Florida Senate President open to expanding ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law to cover more grades

Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, signaled support last Thursday for a potential expansion of Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” law, aka the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the law (HB 1557) in March, amid a controversy that centered mainly on a provision that bars classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. Also, the law requires that such instruction be “age-appropriate … in accordance with state academic standards” in higher

grades. Passidomo told reporters that she would consider expanding the law to bar instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in additional grades.

“The one thing that I think could be looked at is … you know, the middle school, maybe going to sixth grade or something like that,” Passidomo said.

Opponents have argued the law, which has been challenged in federal court, chills educators’ ability to discuss sensitive topics with students and removes teachers as a lifeline for vulnerable LGBTQ youth. The law’s Republican supporters, however, billed it as a way for parents to have more control over what their children encounter in the classroom.

» UCF student who tracked Elon Musk’s jet banned from Twitter, threatened with lawsuit Shortly after Elon Musk removed his flight-tracking bots from Twitter, University of Central Florida student Jack Sweeney had his personal account removed from the platform. Musk went on to say that a car carrying his child was followed in Los Angeles yesterday and threatened legal action against Sweeney on a platform he can no longer use. “Last night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving & climbed onto hood,” he wrote. “Legal action is being taken against Sweeney & organizations who supported harm to my family.”

A video shared by Musk to support these claims showed none of the climbing or stopping of the vehicle, merely a conversation between two people who are filming each other. Musk has battled with Sweeney for months, asking the aviation fanatic to remove a bot account that automatically posts the flights of Musk’s private jets using readily available information from aviation authorities. Sweeney created a series of bots to track other flights from notable figures. Musk offered the UCF student several thousand dollars to remove the bot account prior to his purchase of Twitter. When Sweeney countered by asking for more money, a Tesla or an internship, Musk stopped responding.

Cops continue to spread fentanyl myths, Florida doubling down on Don’t Say Gay policies, Elon Musk threatens to sue UCF student and other news you may have missed.

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Project Censored’s top 10 stories of 2022 show just one pattern dominating all others this year

BY PAUL ROSENBERG

Since its founding in 1976, Project Censored has been focused on stories — like Watergate before the 1972 election — that aren’t censored in the authoritarian government sense, but in a broader, expanded sense reflective of what a functioning democracy should be; censorship defined as “the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method — including bias, omission, underreporting, or self-censorship — that prevents the public from fully knowing what is happening in society.” It is, after all, the reason that journalism enjoys special protection in the First Amendment: Without the free flow of vital information, government based on the consent of the governed is but an illusory dream.

Yet, from the very beginning, as A.J. Liebling put it, “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”

In their introduction to Project Censored’s annual State of the Free Press book, which contains its top censored stories and much more, Project Censored’s Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth take this condition head-on, under the heading State of the Billionaire, in contrast to the volume’s title, State of the Free Press 2023. Following a swift recap of historic media criticism highlights — Upton Sinclair, the aforementioned Liebling, Ben Bagdikian, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky — they dryly observe, “History shows that consolidated media, controlled by a handful of elite owners, seldom

serves the public interest,” then briefly survey the contemporary landscape before narrowing their gaze to the broadest of influencers: “In pursuit of their own interests and investments, media tycoons past and present, again and again, appear to be conveniently oblivious to the main frame through which they filter news — that of class, including class structure and class interests,” Huff and Roth write. “Consequently, they often overlook (or ignore) conflicts of interest that implicate media owners, funders, investors and advertisers, not to mention their business clients on Wall Street and in Big Pharma, Big Tech and the military-industrial complex.”

Every year, I note that there are multiple patterns to be found in the list of Project Censored’s stories, and that these different patterns have much to tell us about the forces shaping what remains hidden. That’s still true, with three environmental stories, three stories involving money in politics and two involving illicit surveillance. But the dominance of this one pattern truly is remarkable. It shows how profoundly the concentration of corporate wealth and power in the hands of so few distorts everything we see — or don’t — in the world around us every day. Here, then, is this year’s list of Project Censored’s top 10 censored stories.

Paul Rosenberg is a Los Angeles-based writer, senior editor at Random Lengths News, and a columnist for Salon and Al Jazeera.

1:

Fossil fuel industry subsidized at rate of $11 million per minute

Globally, the fossil fuel industry receives subsidies of $11 million per minute, primarily from lack of liability for the externalized health costs of deadly air pollution (42%), damages caused by extreme weather events (29%) and costs from traffic collisions and congestion (15%). And two-thirds of those subsidies come from just five countries — the United States, Russia, India, China and Japan. These are key findings from a study of 191 nations published by the International Monetary Fund in September 2021. They were reported in the Guardian and Treehugger the following month, but have been ignored in the corporate media.

No national government currently prices fossil fuels at what the IMF calls their “efficient price” — covering both their supply and environmental costs. “Instead, an estimated 99% of coal, 52% of road diesel, 47% of natural gas and 18% of gasoline are priced at less than half their efficient price,” Project Censored noted.

“Efficient fuel pricing in 2025 would reduce global carbon dioxide emissions 36% below baseline levels, which is in line with keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees, while raising revenues worth 3.8% of global GDP and preventing 0.9 million local air pollution deaths,” the report stated. The G7 nations had previously agreed to scrap fossil fuel subsidies by 2025, but the IMF found that subsidies have increased in recent years and will continue increasing.

“It’s critical that governments stop propping up an industry that is in decline,” Mike Coffin, a senior analyst at Carbon Tracker, told the Guardian. “The much-needed change could start happening now, if not for the government’s entanglement with the fossil fuels industry in so many major economies,” added Maria Pastukhova of E3G, a climate change think tank.

“Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could lead to higher energy prices and, ultimately, political protests and social unrest,” Project Censored noted. “But, as the Guardian and Treehugger each reported, the IMF recommended a ‘comprehensive strategy’ to protect consumers — especially low-income households — impacted by rising energy costs and workers in displaced industries.”

No corporate news outlets had reported on the IMF as of May 2022, according to Project Censored, though a November 2021 opinion piece did focus on the issue of subsidies, which John Kerry, U.S. special envoy for climate change, called “a definition of insanity.” But that was framed as opinion and made no mention of the indirect subsidies, which represent 86% of the total. In contrast, “In January 2022, CNN published an article that all but defended fossil fuel subsidies,” Project Censored noted.

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2: Wage theft: U.S. businesses suffer few consequences for stealing millions from workers every year

In 2017, the FBI reported the cost of street crime at about $13.8 billion, the same year that the Economic Policy Institute released a study saying that just one form of wage theft — minimum wage violations — costs U.S. workers even more: an estimated $15 billion annually, impacting an estimated 17% of low-wage workers.

One reason it’s so rampant is that companies are seldom punished, as Alexia Fernández Campbell and Joe Yerardi reported for the Center for Public Integrity in May 2021, drawing on 15 years of data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. “The agency fined only about one in four repeat offenders during that period. And it ordered those companies to pay workers cash damages — penalty money in addition to back wages — in just 14% of those cases,” they wrote. In addition, “The division often lets businesses avoid repaying their employees all the money they’re owed. In all, the agency has let more than 16,000 employers get away with not paying $20.3 million in back wages since 2005.”

We’re talking about some major companies. Halliburton, G4S Wackenhut and Circle K Stores were among “the worst offenders,” they reported.

That report kicked off the center’s “Cheated at Work” series, which showed that “U.S. employers that illegally underpaid workers face few repercussions, even when they do so repeatedly. This widespread practice perpetuates income inequality, hitting lowest-paid workers hardest.”

“Wage theft includes a range of illegal practices, such as paying less than minimum wage, withholding tips, not paying overtime, or requiring workers to work through breaks or off the clock. It impacts service workers, low-income workers, immigrant and guest workers, and communities of color the most,” Project Censored explained.

Wage theft also includes worker misclassification as independent contractors — long the case with port truckers and, more recently, gig workers. A 2014 study from the National Employment Law Center estimated that “California’s port trucking companies are liable to drivers for violations of wage and hour laws for $65 to $83 million each month, or $787 to $998 million each year.”

Lack of resources is largely to blame for the lax enforcement, Project Censored explained: “As of February 2021, the Wage and Hour Division employed only 787 investigators, a proportion of just one investigator per 182,000 workers covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act, Campbell and Yerardi noted. For comparison, in 1948 the division

employed one investigator per 22,600 workers, or eight times the current proportion.”

Lax enforcement is “especially problematic” in some 14 states that “lack the capacity to investigate wage theft claims or lack the ability to file lawsuits on behalf of victims,” according to a 2017 Economic Policy Institute report. In contrast, the center’s report “mentioned local successes in Chicago (2013), Philadelphia (2016) and Minneapolis (2019),” Project Censored noted, but “workers’ rights advocates continue to seek federal reforms.”

“Since May 2021, a handful of corporate news outlets, including CBS News, covered or republished the Center for Public Integrity’s report on wage theft,” Project Censored noted, but “corporate coverage tends to focus on specific instances involving individual employers,” while ignoring it “as a systemic social problem” as well as ignoring the “anemic federal enforcement.”

That could change, if Congress were to pass the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act of 2022, which “would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to protect workers from wage theft, according to Ariana Figueroa of the Virginia Mercury,” Project Censored noted, concluding with a quote from Minnesota congressperson Ilhan Omar: “It is clear more DOL [Department of Labor] funding and additional federal reforms are needed in our localities in order to protect our most vulnerable workers.”

It wasn’t just the public that was kept in the dark, Lerner reported. “The substantial risk reports have not been uploaded to the databases used most often by risk assessors searching for information about chemicals, according [to] one of the EPA scientists. … They have been entered only into an internal database that is difficult to access and search. As a result, little — and perhaps none — of the information about these serious risks to health and the environment has been incorporated into the chemical assessments completed during this period.”

“Basically, they are just going into a black hole,” one whistleblower told Lerner. “We don’t look at them. We don’t evaluate them. And we don’t check to see if they change our understanding of the chemical.”

Apart from the Intercept, “only a handful of niche publications have reported on the matter,” Project Censored noted.

on influential energy-related committees,” Project Censored noted. Senators include Manchin, chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Tina Smith (D-Minnesota), chair of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy, and Tom Carper (D-Delaware), chair of the Committee on the Environment and Public Works. “Manchin cut the Clean Electricity Performance Program, a system that would phase out coal, from President Biden’s climate bill,” they added.

In the House, they explained, “nine of the 22 Republican members of the Energy and Commerce Committee are invested in the fossil fuel industry. As Project Censored detailed in the No. 4 story on the Top 25 list two years ago, these individuals’ personal financial interests as investors often conflict with their obligation as elected legislators to serve the public interest.”

3:

EPA withheld reports on dangerous chemicals

In January 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency stopped releasing legally required disclosures about chemicals that present a “substantial risk of injury to health or the environment.” They had previously been posted in a searchable public database called ChemView.

In November 2021, as part of the Intercept’s “EPA Exposed” investigative series, Sharon Lerner reported that EPA had received “at least 1,240 substantial risk reports since January 2019, but only one was publicly available. The suppressed reports documented “the risk of chemicals’ serious harms, including eye corrosion, damage to the brain and nervous system, chronic toxicity to honeybees and cancer in both people and animals,” Lerner wrote.

“The reports include notifications about highly toxic polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAs, chemical compounds that are known as ‘forever chemicals’ because they build up in our bodies and never break down in the environment,” Project Censored noted. “The Environmental Working Group explains that ‘very small doses of PFAs have been linked to cancer, reproductive and immune system harm, and other diseases. For decades, chemical companies covered up evidence of PFAS’ health hazards.’” Their spread throughout the world’s oceans, along with microplastics, was Project Censored’s No. 5 story last year.

However, in January 2022 Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed a lawsuit to compel EPA to disclose the reports, following up on an earlier public records request which, the National Law Review reported, was “built upon information reported in a November 2021 article in The Intercept.” Just weeks later EPA announced it would resume posting the reports in ChemView, Project Censored noted. “Clearly, independent journalism contributed significantly to this outcome,” they said. “Had it not been for the work of investigative journalist Sharon Lerner at The Intercept, EPA whistleblowers would not have had a platform to share concerns that ultimately led the agency to resume these critical public disclosures.”

Oil and gas lobbying totaled $119.3 million, according to campaign oversight group OpenSecrets, while 2020 election spending topped $40 million for congressional candidates — $8.7 million to Democrats and $30.8 million to Republicans. This came as the International Energy Agency warned that no new fossil fuel developments can be approved if the world is to have a 50/50 chance to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, Moore reported. And, yet, “production of oil and gas is projected to grow 50% by 2030 without congressional action,” Project Censored noted. “The fact that so many lawmakers have invested considerable sums in the fossil fuel industry makes it extremely unlikely that Congress will do much to rein in oil and gas production.”

4:

At least 128 members of Congress invested in fossil fuel industry

At least 100 U.S. representatives and 28 U.S. senators have financial interests in the fossil fuel industry — a major impediment to reaching climate change goals that’s gone virtually unmentioned by the corporate media, despite detailed reporting in a series of Sludge articles written by David Moore in November and December of 2021.

Moore found that 74 Republicans, 59 Democrats and one independent have fossil fuel industry investments, with Republicans outnumbering Democrats in both chambers. The top 10 House investors are all Republicans. But it’s quite different in the Senate, where two of the top three investors are Democrats, and Democrats’ total investments, $8,604,000, are more than double the Senate Republicans’ total of $3,994,126. Topping the list is Joe Manchin (West Virginia), with up to $5.5 million of fossil fuel industry assets, while John Hickenlooper (Colorado) is third, with up to $1 million. (Most reporting is in ranges.) Many top investors are Texas Republicans, including Rep. Van Taylor, with up to $12.4 million worth of investments.

“Most significantly, many hold key seats

As of May 21, 2022, Sludge’s reporting had gotten no corporate coverage, repeating the whiteout of a similar report in 2020. “Corporate news outlets have only reported on the fact that clean energy proposals are stalled in Congress, not the financial conflicts of interest that are the likely cause of this lack of progress,” Project Censored concluded.

5: Dark money interference in

politics undermines democracy

The same group of conservative dark money organizations that opposed President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nomination — Judicial Crisis Network, the 85 Fund and their affiliated groups — also funded entities that played a role in the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to a report by the watchdog group Accountable.US. They’re closely linked to Leonard Leo, co-chair of the Federalist Society, with money coming from Donors Trust (a dark-money group backed by the Koch network) and the Bradley Foundation.

“These dark money groups not only funded Leo’s network of organizations to the sum

“CNN’s coverage emphasized the potential for unrest caused by rollbacks of government subsidies, citing “protests that occasionally turned violent.”

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of over $52 million in 2020, but also funded entities in 2020 that played a role in the insurrection to the sum of over $37 million,” Accountable.US reported.

While there has been coverage of dark money spending on Supreme Court nominations, Igor Derysh at Salon.com was alone in reporting the related involvement in Jan. 6.

Just one group, JCN, spent $2.5 million “before Biden even named his nominee” Ketanji Brown Jackson, Derysh reported, “accusing Biden of caving in to leftists by promising a ‘Supreme Court nominee who will be a liberal activist.’” On the other hand, “JCN spent tens of millions helping to confirm Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, according to Open Secrets, and launched a $25 million effort to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett just weeks before the 2020 election,” Derysh reported.

But more disturbingly, “Donors Trust has funneled more than $28 million to groups that pushed election lies or in some way funded the rally ahead of the Capitol riot,” while “Members of the Federalist Society played key roles in Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the election,” including attorney John Eastman, architect of Trump’s plan to get Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election, senators Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who led the objections to the certification of Trump’s loss after the riot, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who filed a lawsuit to throw out election results in key states, effectively overturning Biden’s victory. In addition, 13 of the 17 other Republican attorneys general who joined Paxton’s suit were also Federalist Society members.

“It should worry us all that the groups leading the fight against Biden’s historic nomination of Judge Jackson to the Supreme Court are tied to the Jan. 6 insurrection and efforts to undermine confidence in the 2020 election,” Kyle Herrig, president of Accountable.US, told Salon.

“The influence of dark money — political spending by organizations that are not required to disclose their donors — presents a major challenge to the swift functioning of the judicial nomination and confirmation process, and the U.S. government as a whole,” Project Censored noted. “[D]ark money deeply influences political decisions in favor of select individuals’ or groups’ agendas rather than in support of the public’s best interests.”

Right-wing dark money’s role in fighting Judge Jackson’s nomination and confirmation process was highlighted by Business Insider in February 2022, along with op-eds in both the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post that covered the discussion of dark money during Judge Jackson’s confirmation hearings, and a March 2022 Mother Jones report. “However,” Project Censored noted, “none of the articles featured in the corporate press covered dark money supporting Trump’s Big Lie, the impact such funding had on promoting and reinforcing anti-democratic ideology, or the ramifications of how such

dark money spending erodes public trust in government and the election process.”

6: Corporate consolidation causing record inflation in food prices

“Corporate consolidation is a main driver of record inflation in food prices, despite claims by media pundits and partisan commentators to the contrary,” Project Censored reports. “The establishment press has covered the current wave of inflation exhaustively, but only rarely will discuss the market power of giant firms as a possible cause, and then usually only to reject it,” as they did when the Biden administration cited meat industry consolidation as a cause of price increases in September 2021, “treating administration attempts to link inflation to consolidation as a rhetorical move meant to distract from conservative critiques of Biden’s stimulus program.”

But as Food and Water Watch reported in November 2021, “while the cost of meat shot up, prices paid to farmers actually declined, spurring a federal investigation.” That investigation is ongoing, but meat conglomerates Tyson Foods, Perdue Farms, Smithfield Foods and JBS have paid just over $225 million to settle related civil suits in the poultry, beef and pork markets.

That’s just part of the problem. A July 2021 joint investigation by Food and Water Watch and the Guardian “reported that a handful of ‘food giants’ — including Kraft Heinz, General Mills, Conagra, Unilever and Del Monte — control an average of 64% of sales of 61 popular grocery items,” Project Censored noted. Three companies own 93% of carbonated soft drink brands; while another three produce 73% of the cereals on offer, and a single company, PepsiCo, owns five of the most popular dip brands — 88% of the market. Altogether, “four firms or fewer controlled at least 50% of the market for 79% of the groceries,” the Guardian reported.

It’s not just producers: “In an October 2021 article for Common Dreams, Kenny Stancil documents that food producers, distributors and grocery store chains are engaging in pandemic profiteering and taking advantage of decades of consolidation, which has given a handful of corporations an ever-greater degree of market control and with it, the power to set prices,” according to research by the Groundwork Collaborative.

As for grocers, “Kroger, the largest supermarket chain in the country, cited rising inflation as the reason for hiking prices in their stores even as they cut worker pay by 8%,” Project Censored noted. “Yet, as Stancil explained, Kroger’s CEO publicly gloated that ‘a little bit of inflation is always good for business.’” That CEO earned 909 times what the median worker earned, while worker pay decreased by 8% in 2020, and “the company spent $1.498 billion on stock buybacks between April 2020 and July 2021 to enrich its shareholders,” the Groundwork Collaborative reported. Kroger was one of

just four companies that took in an estimated two-thirds of all grocery sales in 2019, according to Food and Water Watch.

More broadly, “A report for the American Prospect by Rakeem Mabud, chief economist at the Groundwork Collaborative, and David Dayen revealed that one of the most common inflation scapegoats, supply chain problems, is itself a consequence of consolidation,” Project Censored noted. “Just three global alliances of ocean shippers are responsible for 80% of all cargo. … These shippers raked in nearly $80 billion in the first three quarters of 2021, twice as much as in the entire 10-year period from 2010 to 2020,” by increasing their rates as much as tenfold.

Supply chain consolidation reflects a broader shift in the global economy, the Prospect argued. “In 1970, Milton Friedman argued in the New York Times that ‘the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.’ Manufacturers used that to rationalize a financial imperative to benefit shareholders by seeking the lowest-cost labor possible.” This led to a surge in outsourcing to East Asia, and eventually China. “This added new costs for shipping, but deregulating all the industries in the supply chain could more than compensate.”

Occasionally articles touched on the issue of consolidation (mostly to debunk it), though there are a couple of opinion pieces to the contrary. “But these isolated opinion pieces were far outnumbered by the hundreds, even thousands, of reports and analyses by commercial media outlets that blamed everything but oligopolistic price gouging for the rising cost of groceries,” Project Censored concluded.

of America’s most important news outlets, including CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS and The Atlantic. Gates also sponsors a myriad of influential foreign organizations, including the BBC, the Guardian, the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph in the United Kingdom; prominent European newspapers such as Le Monde (France), Der Spiegel (Germany) and El País (Spain); as well as big global broadcasters like Al Jazeera,” he reported.

“MacLeod’s report includes a number of Gates-funded news outlets that also regularly feature in Project Censored’s annual Top 25 story lists, such as the Solutions Journalism Network ($7.2M), The Conversation ($6.6M), the Bureau of Investigative Journalism ($1M) and ProPublica ($1M) in addition to the Guardian and The Atlantic,” Project Censored noted. “Direct awards to news outlets often targeted specific issues, MacLeod reported. For example, CNN received $3.6 million to support ‘journalism on the everyday inequalities endured by women and girls across the world,’ according to one grant. Another grant earmarked $2.3 million for the Texas Tribune ‘to increase public awareness and engagement of education reform issues in Texas.’ As MacLeod noted, given Bill Gates’ advocacy of the charter school movement — which undermines teachers’ unions and effectively aims to privatize the public education system — ‘a cynic might interpret this as planting pro-corporate charter school propaganda into the media, disguised as objective news reporting.’”

7:

Concerns for journalistic independence as Gates Foundation gives $319 million to news outlets

The list of billionaires with media empires includes familiar names like Rupert Murdoch, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and, most recently, Elon Musk. But, “While other billionaires’ media empires are relatively well-known, the extent to which [Microsoft co-founder Bill] Gates’s cash underwrites the modern media landscape is not,” Alan MacLeod wrote for MintPress News in November 2021.

MacLeod examined more than 30,000 individual grants from the the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and found it had donated “more than $319 million to fund news outlets, journalism centers and training programs, press associations and specific media campaigns, raising questions about conflicts of interest and journalistic independence,” Project Censored summarized.

“Today, it is possible for an individual to train as a reporter thanks to a Gates Foundation Grant, find work at a Gatesfunded outlet, and belong to a press association funded by Gates,” MacLeod wrote.

“Recipients of this cash include many

“[T]here are clear shortcomings with this non-exhaustive list, meaning the true figure is undoubtedly far higher. First, it does not count sub-grants — money given by recipients to media around the world,” because there’s no record of them, MacLeod reported.

“For a tax-privileged charity that so very often trumpets the importance of transparency, it’s remarkable how intensely secretive the Gates Foundation is about its financial flows,” Tim Schwab, one of the few investigative journalists who has scrutinized the tech billionaire, told MintPress.

Also missing were grants aimed at producing articles for academic journals, although “they regularly form the basis for stories in the mainstream press and help shape narratives around key issues,” he noted. “The Gates Foundation has given far and wide to academic sources, with at least $13.6 million going toward creating content for the prestigious medical journal The Lancet.” And more broadly, “even money given to universities for purely research projects eventually ends up in academic journals, and ultimately, downstream into mass media. … Neither these nor grants funding the printing of books or establishment of websites counted in the total, although they too are forms of media.”

“No major corporate news outlets appear to have covered this issue,” only a scattering of independent outlets, Project Censored

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noted. This despite the fact that “as far back as 2011, the Seattle Times published an article investigating how the Gates Foundation’s ‘growing support of media organizations blurs the line between journalism and advocacy.’”

8: CIA discussed plans to kidnap or kill Julian Assange

The CIA seriously considered plans to kidnap or assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in late 2017, according to a September 2021 Yahoo! News investigation based on interviews with more than 30 former U.S. officials, eight of whom detailed U.S. plans to abduct Assange and three of whom described the development of plans to kill him. If it had been up to CIA Director Mike Pompeo, they almost certainly would have been acted on, after WikiLeaks announced it had obtained a massive tranche of files — dubbed “Vault 7” — from the CIA’s ultrasecret hacking division and posted some of them online.

In his first public remarks as Donald Trump’s CIA director, “Pompeo devoted much of his speech to the threat posed by WikiLeaks” Yahoo! News noted, “rather than use the platform to give an overview of global challenges or to lay out any bureaucratic changes he was planning to make at the agency.” He even called it “a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia,” a designation intended to grant the CIA wide latitude in what actions it took, while shielding it from congressional oversight.

“Potential scenarios proposed by the CIA and Trump administration officials included crashing into a Russian vehicle carrying Assange in order to grab him, shooting the tires of an airplane carrying Assange in order to prevent its takeoff, and engaging in a gun battle through the streets of London,” Project Censored summarized. “Senior CIA officials went so far as to request ‘sketches’ or ‘options’ detailing methods to kill Assange.”

“WikiLeaks was a complete obsession of Pompeo’s,” a former Trump administration national security official told Yahoo! News. “After Vault 7, Pompeo and [Deputy CIA Director Gina] Haspel wanted vengeance on Assange.” It went so far that “Pompeo and others at the agency proposed abducting Assange from the embassy and surreptitiously bringing him back to the United States via a third country — a process known as rendition,” they reported. (Assassination entered the picture later on.) Since it would take place in Britain, there had to be agreement from them. “But the British said, ‘No way, you’re not doing that on our territory, that ain’t happening,’” a former senior counterintelligence official told Yahoo! News.

There was also pushback from National Security Council lawyers and the Department of Justice, which wanted to put Assange on trial. But the CIA continued to push for capturing or killing Assange. Trump’s “NSC

lawyers were bulwarks against the CIA’s potentially illegal proposals, according to former officials,” Yahoo! News reported, but the CIA’s own lawyers may have been kept in the dark. “When Pompeo took over, he cut the lawyers out of a lot of things,” a former senior intelligence community attorney told them. “Pompeo’s ready access to the Oval Office, where he would meet with Trump alone, exacerbated the lawyers’ fears. [The NSC’s top lawyer John] Eisenberg fretted that the CIA director was leaving those meetings with authorities or approvals signed by the president that Eisenberg knew nothing about, according to former officials.”

“U.S. plans to kidnap or assassinate Julian Assange have received little to no establishment news coverage in the United States, other than scant summaries by Business Insider and The Verge, and tangential coverage by Reuters, each based on the original Yahoo! News report,” Project Censored notes. “Among U.S. independent news outlets, “Democracy Now!” featured an interview with Michael Isikoff, one of the Yahoo! News reporters who broke the story, and Jennifer Robinson, a human rights attorney who has been advising Julian Assange and WikiLeaks since 2010. Rolling Stone and The Hill also published articles based on the original Yahoo! News report.”

9: New laws preventing dark money disclosures sweep the nation

Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision relaxing campaign finance regulations, dark money spending has exploded, and now Republican lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing legislation to make it illegal to compel nonprofit organizations to disclose who the dark money donors are. Recently passed laws in Arkansas, Arizona, Iowa, Oklahoma, Mississippi, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia are based on model legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, which brings together corporate lobbyists and conservative lawmakers to advance special-interest business-friendly legislation.

“ALEC is deeply enmeshed with the sprawling political influence networks tied to billionaire families like the Kochs and the Bradleys, both of which use non-disclosing nonprofits that help to conceal how money is funneled,” Donald Shaw reported for Sludge on June 15, 2021. “Penalties for violating the laws vary between the states, but in some states could include prison sentences.”

“Shaw explained how these bills create a loophole allowing wealthy individuals and groups to pass ‘dark money’ anonymously to 501(c) organizations, which in turn can make independent expenditures to influence elections (or contribute to other organizations that make independent political expenditures, such as super-PACs), effectively shielding the ultimate source of

political funds from public scrutiny,” Project Censored summarized. “‘These bills are about making dark money darker,’ Aaron McKean, legal counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, told Shaw.”

The South Dakota law was overwhelmingly passed by the GOP-dominated legislature despite the fact that voters passed a 2016 ballot measure requiring disclosure of “the identity of donors who give more than $100 to organizations for the purpose of political expenditures,” a requirement the legislature repealed a year later, Shaw reported in February 2021.

There’s a federal impact as well. “In a March 2022 article for Sludge, Shaw documented that the federal omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2022 contained a rider exempting political groups that declare themselves ‘social welfare organizations’ from reporting their donors, and another preventing the Securities and Exchange Commission from ‘requiring corporations to publicly disclose more of their political and lobbying spending,’” Project Censored noted, going on to cite a May 2021 article from Open Secrets about Senate Republicans’ “Don’t Weaponize the IRS Act,” which “would prevent the IRS from requiring that 501(c)(4) nonprofits disclose their top donors.”

Democrats and good-government groups have pushed back. “On April 27, 2021, 38 Democratic senators sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellin and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig urging them to roll back an anti-disclosure rule put in place by the Trump Administration,” Project Censored reported. “In addition, the Democrats’ comprehensive voting-rights bill, the For the People Act, would have compelled the disclosure of all contributions by individuals who surpass $10,000 in donations in a given reporting period. The bill was passed by the House but died in the Senate.”

While there’s been some coverage of some aspects of this story — a Washington Post story about Democrats pressuring the Biden administration, the Associated Press reporting on South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s defense of her state’s law — except for regional papers like the Tampa Bay Times, Project Censored reports, “There has been little acknowledgment in the establishment press of the stream of ALEC-inspired bills passing through state legislatures that seek to keep the source of so much of the money spent to influence elections hidden in the shadows.”

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TikTok, etc. But now, as Lee Fang reported for The Intercept in February 2022, the Biden administration’s Federal Trade Commission is seeking to regulate user data collection. Lobbyists for the Interactive Advertising Bureau are pushing back.

“In a letter, IAB called for the FTC to oppose a ban on data-driven advertising networks, claiming the modern media cannot exist without mass data collection,” Fang reported.

“The IAB represents both data brokers and online media outlets that depend on digital advertising, such as CNN, the New York Times, MSNBC, Time, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Post, Vox, the Orlando Sentinel, Fox News and dozens of other media companies,” Fang explained.

“The privacy push has largely been framed as a showdown between technology companies and the administration,” but “the lobbying reveals a tension that is rarely a center of the discourse around online privacy: Major media corporations increasingly rely on a vast ecosystem of privacy violations, even as the public relies on them to report on it.” As a result, “Major news outlets have remained mostly silent on the FTC’s current push and a parallel effort to ban surveillance advertising by the House and Senate by Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-California, and Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey,” Fang concluded.

“The IAB argues that targeted advertising — and, by extension, the siphoning of user data — has become necessary due to declining revenues from print sales and subscriptions,” Project Censored summarized. “Non-digital advertising revenue decreased from $124.8 billion in 2011 to $89.8 billion in 2020, while digital advertising revenue rose from $31.9 billion to $152.2 billion in the same period, according to Pew Research.”

Complicating matters, “The personal information collected by online media is typically sold to aggregators, such as BlueKai (owned by Oracle) and OpenX, that exploit user data — including data describing minors — to create predictive models of users’ behavior, which are then sold to advertising agencies.

The covert nature of surveillance advertising makes it difficult for users to opt out.” In addition, “The user information collected by media sites also enables direct manipulation of public perceptions of political issues, as famously happened when the British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica tapped into personal data from millions of Facebook users to craft campaign propaganda during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”

“The corporate media have reported the FTC’s openness to new rules limiting the collection and exploitation of user data, but have generally not drawn attention to IAB lobbying against the proposed regulations,” Project Censored noted, citing articles in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post as examples. “[N]either outlet discussed IAB, its lobbying on this issue, or the big media clients the organization represents.”

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Major media outlets lobby against regulation of ‘surveillance advertising’

“Surveillance advertising” — collecting users’ data to target them with tailored advertising — has become a ubiquitous, extremely profitable practice on the world’s most popular social media apps and platforms — Facebook, YouTube, Instagram,

BY SETH KUBERSKY

With more reports of violence and strife in the headlines this year than during any Christmastime I can recall, it’s comforting to look back at a time during a Great War when opposing sides set aside their arms and embraced each other’s humanity, if only for one night. I recently shared a cinnamon roll with Opera Orlando stage director Grant Preisser and music director Dr. Andrew Minear to hear how their Central Florida tour of All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 is making opera accessible to wounded warriors and others across the region this holiday season.

All Is Calm, which Opera Orlando previously produced at the Dr. Phillips Center’s Pugh Theater in 2019, was originally developed in Minneapolis by Peter Rothstein with the Cantus Vocal Ensemble and Theater Latté Da, based on authentic correspondence and a cappella carols from World War I. That first four-performance run sold out, but more importantly it connected Opera Orlando to the veterans community through their partnership with UCF Restores, which was studying music and art as therapy for PTSD.

“We just got an overwhelming response in terms of people really resonating with the production,” says Preisser. “That’s really what motivated us to bring it back, to expand outreach, and to try to connect with as many other veterans as we can.” The result is a three-city tour that started in Lakeland’s Polk Theatre and continued at Sanford’s Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center before it concludes in the Dr. Phillips Center’s Steinmetz Hall on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 23 and 24.

In addition to the tour stops in Lakeland and Sanford, Opera Orlando previewed the production for students at Montverde

Academy and has been caroling at Veterans Administration hospitals in Lake Baldwin and Lake Nona.

“We are Orlando’s opera company, but we also want to reach out to greater Central Florida,” says Preisser. Still, the Steinmetz stop will certainly be the showpiece, allowing the “acoustically perfect” hall to be utilized in the unamplified concert hall configuration it’s intended for. And with tickets starting at only $19 (plus a block of 200 free tickets available for veterans), it may be the cheapest admission you’ll ever find to the world-class venue.

“Opera is probably the most expensive art form to produce,” acknowledges Preisser.

“We want as many people in Orlando to come and see opera [but] a lot of people don’t give it a chance, mostly because of the sticker shock, [so we’re] providing an entry-level price point.”

While Preisser is obviously no stranger to Opera Orlando (he’s the brother of Gabriel Preisser, the company’s Grammy-winning CEO) or All Is Calm (having helmed their earlier version), Minear is a relatively recent addition to the creative team. An Orlando native and veteran Orange County Public School music educator, Minear returned to the region during the pandemic for family reasons after teaching choral conducting at the University of Alabama, and promptly founded Orlando Sings, a nonprofit choir that just celebrated its one-year anniversary.

However, Minear says his history with the Preissers goes back much further than that: “Grant and I go way back; we actually overlapped at Florida State University undergrad for one year, and sang together in the University Singers. I’ve known Gabe for a long time too; my mom knew him because he sang in the children’s choir with her that

she was leading at the time.”

For potential patrons who are averse to the symphonic pomp and circumstance that usually surrounds the art form, Preisser assures, “This is not your typical opera. It’s not grand opera, we don’t have an orchestra.” Instead, the music is created solely by the choral ensemble, which Minear says is “definitely my wheelhouse.”

“I’m thrilled to be to be a part of it,” Minear says, adding that “it’s been a really fun challenge because there is no conductor,” forcing him to devise ways for the onstage performers to establish their own pitch and tempo prior to each song. Equally as important as the music is the dialogue; each emotional monologue is signed off with the name of the real-life solider who penned it. “It just reinforces the fact that this really happened,” says Preisser. “These are real people experiencing this very traumatic event, [and] then having this moment of respite and moment of humanity within no man’s land.”

History records that, although British and German soldiers along the Western Front did spend Christmas Eve of 1914 singing songs and playing soccer together, they soon returned to their trenches and resumed shooting at each other. That tragic truth isn’t overlooked in All Is Calm, but it also doesn’t extinguish the optimism that evening still inspires.

“I think that the beauty of this show is the way the soldiers speak their names [and] come to life,” concludes Minear. “When you start to get to know each other on a human level, like the soldiers did when they stepped out of the trenches, [you] realize that they’re just like us. And I think it’s an important thing to reflect on, especially now.”

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Opera Orlando’s optimism-inspiring All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 tells the true story of how WWI soldiers set aside their weapons for just one night and embraced each other’s humanity

Opera Orlando presents still-timely holiday tale All Is Calm | courtesy photo

SPIRITED AWAY

Juju in Colonialtown embodies the essence of izakaya dining

BY FAIYAZ KARA

We didn’t need a pandemic to tell us that restaurants are a lot more than just places to eat, though the ’rona did emphasize that point, and then some. No question, restaurants are a life force in the community — places to gather, connect and celebrate. They’re places we seek for comfort and consolation, but they’re also places of discovery and learning. Some are able to transport diners to a different time, to a faraway place or, in the case of Juju in Colonialtown, a distant memory: I’m a 7-yearold boy on a Sunday afternoon sitting two feet away from a Zenith console television watching Gamera wreak havoc across Japan. More so than Godzilla, this prehistoric, firebreathing, flying turtle monster mesmerized and captivated my imagination, like Juju itself. Not that Lewis Lin’s restaurant, in all its Showa-era glory, is reminiscent in any way of the mutated reptilian, but festooning this former Pizza Hut in ’60s and ’70s Japanese paraphernalia took me back, as sister restaurant Susuru on Palm Parkway did.

But a theme restaurant this is not. In fact, Juju captures the true spirit of an izakaya more than any other restaurant in town making the claim. There’s a buzzy conviviality without a lick of pretense, even at the sixseat kappo bar where immersive 10-course omakases are served. The dishes at that bar, like seven-day-aged mackerel kissed by the white coals of binchotan, and a fish-bone “tonkatsu” with aged kinmedai (golden-eye

snapper), make the omakase worth the $160 price tag. But there are equally gratifying eats to be had in the main dining room — which, in case it wasn’t clear, retains none of the vestiges of its former tenant. Still, ordering a whisky cocktail dubbed “That Old Pizza Hut” ($13) is practically a must. “That’s so funny,” says one of my dining comrades. “I was just telling my friend the location of Juju and I said, ‘It’s on Maguire, Pizza Hut.’”

Clearly, she’s not the only one.

The Suntory Toki beverage, with ginger-honey syrup, grated nutmeg, orange zest and whipped cream, is even served in a red plastic tumbler emblazoned with both “Juju” and “Pizza Hut.” But what we really tumbled over were the skewered meats: specifically yakitori like chicken thigh ($3.50), chicken meatball ($4) and glorious chicken skin ($3.50), all seared over that Japanese char coal. Order a bunch, enjoy a drink and soak it all in. Everyone else at Juju is doing the same, though if you glance at

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their tables you might see skewers of beef tenderloin ($5), pork belly-wrapped asparagus ($5) and shishito peppers ($5) being enjoyed. We did. Same goes for bonito-flaked okra ($3), Brussels sprouts ($3) and king oyster mushroom ($3), with the only real miss being overdone morsels of ribeye ($5).

It’s not all about the juju, however (juju being a Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound meats make on a grill): There’s kombu-cured Hokkaido scallops served over grilled persimmon sauce dolled up with yuzu granita and fennel ($16); teba gyoza, grilled chicken wings stuffed with, yes, chicken! and shiitake mushrooms ($10); and gyoza pocketing bits of A5 strip-loin wagyu graced with shaved black truffles and a slick of black garlic sauce ($14). It’s all happy food, and happy are the people who eat and share it.

A more substantial item like mentaiko udon ($16), with a spicy cream sauce of cod roe mixed with uni, butter and marinated egg yolk, also provides a great deal of comfort. “Too much comfort,” said one of my guests, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Shoyusmoked duck ($24), one of the prettier dishes on the menu, has rolls of the fowl snuggled atop miso-cauliflower puree dressed to the nines with nasturtium flowers and flecked with a mild sensho pepper. No Gamera-style mouth flames with this one, though the dish was fire.

At Juju, the choice is yours: all the skewers and a couple of beers or, as they do at a real izakaya, a couple of skewers and all the beers. Just don’t have a Shibuya Meltdown — that’s not the sort of transportive restaurant moment anybody wants.

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OPENINGS & CLOSINGS:

Winter Park will see a sizable new restaurant open next fall at 500 S. Park Ave.: The concept by Artistry Restaurants, who operate Boca and Atlantic Beer & Oyster on the north end of the strip, will pay homage to the history of Winter Park. The menu will celebrate the best Florida has to offer — fresh fish and seafood as well as locally raised beef and plenty of citrus … Sushi Sake, the South Florida-based chain promising a South Florida-inspired sushi menu, has opened in the old Boston Market space at 840 N. Orlando Ave. in Winter Park … Filipino sweet shop Sampaguita Ice Cream & Desserts is aiming for a Jan. 1 soft opening at 1233 E. Colonial Drive, between Mamak and the recently opened Haan Coffee … Solita Tacos & Margaritas has opened at 222 S. Orange Ave., promising SoCal vibes and “go-to game-day gatherings” … Another day, another local food and bev operator opens at the new Terminal C at MCO. Wine Bar George, the Disney Springs boite by master sommelier George Miliotes, is offering 75 wines by the glass, bottle and ounce along with a menu of breakfast items, charcuterie, cheese, salads and sandwiches. Cocktails are offered too … Toastique, the boutique gourmet toast and juice bar chain, has opened its first Florida location at the Hamlin Town Center in Winter Garden at 14410 Shoreside Way … Also in Winter Garden, Dolly Llama, the L.A.-based waffle and artisanal ice cream joint at Winter Garden Village, celebrates its grand opening Jan. 7 at noon by gifting the first 100 guests a Dolly Llama swag bag of merchandise … Vitality Bowls Superfood Cafe will join Foxtail Coffee inside the Maitland Social when it opens early next year.

NEWS & EVENTS:

Giant Desires, a collab between regional Chinese food pop-up Little Giant and Deli Desires, goes from 3-7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 23, at Deli Desires. On the menu: krab rangoon bialy, char siu, mapo tofu dip, matzo ball egg drop soup, Szechuan carrot slaw and dumplings

The Salty Donut is offering holiday specials through Dec. 24 that include “Santa’s Sugar Cookie,” an eggnog cinnamon roll and a strawberry sufganiyot — a mini strawberry jam-filled donut tossed in powdered sugar.

PHOTOS BY ROB BARTLETT

ON (small) SCREENS IN ORLANDO

Streaming premieres you won’t want to miss this week.

by Steve Schneider

PREMIERES WEDNESDAY:

Emily in Paris — Despite speculation that the action would be moving to Berlin in Season 3, it seems Lily Collins’ Emily will remain entrenched in the City of Lights, where she’ll have to juggle multiple jobs and affairs. I mean, you can do that in Berlin too, if the multiple affairs are with sausage-related heart diseases. (Netflix)

I Am a Killer — Season 4 offers more harrowing sit-downs with convicted murderers who will never be able to reintegrate into society. Or you could just follow Kyle Rittenhouse on Twitter. (Netflix)

Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan — Why did we have to wait three years for Season 3, in which John Krasinski’s Jack confronts a nefarious plot by Russia to dominate the globe? I mean, it can’t have taken that long just to transcribe Matt Taibbi’s LinkedIn. (Prime Video)

PREMIERES THURSDAY:

Alice in Borderland — In Season 2, Arisu and Yusagi attempt a game reset to free themselves from the virtual limbo in which they’ve become trapped. Ironically, the

entire business model here depends on you being too hypnotized to put down the remote and go kayaking or something. (Netflix)

The Best Man: The Final Chapters — This spinoff series from the hit movie franchise catches up with Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall and the rest of their crew as they confront the challenges of middle age. “Wow, I guess Black does crack,” sighs Taye Diggs, finding his first smile line at age 85. (Peacock)

The Head — The Spanish-made thriller about climate change was originally meant to be a standalone miniseries. But it’s going to a Season 2, because somehow, a bunch of us are still here to watch it. Talk about undermining your own argument, Big Woke! (HBO Max)

I Hate Suzie Too — The second season of dark Britcom I Hate Suzie is a three-part Christmas special that shows Billie Piper’s Suzie Pickles trying to make a showbiz comeback by competing in a televised dance-off. This, of course, is the path to redemption that enabled Sean Spicer to

nab the role of The Doctor’s next companion. (HBO Max)

Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge — An anthology like its 2019 forbear, the second Scare Package flick visits the funeral of deceased horror-store owner Rad Chad Buckley — a solemn observance that turns into a series of death traps for the shocked mourners. Is it too late to cancel my organ-donor card? Because this sounds like the way I’d rather go out. (Shudder)

PREMIERES FRIDAY:

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — If you missed it when it played in theaters for one week last month, here’s the well-received second outing for Daniel Craig’s detective Benoit Blanc. But will the movie’s portrait of a shady tech billionaire (Edward Norton) with questionable associations and a propensity for stealing credit still seem relevant? Now that we’ve all seen Hunter’s joint, that is? (Netflix)

PREMIERES SUNDAY:

After Ever Happy — Just like Glass Onion, the fourth installment in the After series

of teen romances is coming to streaming after a brief run in theaters many weeks ago. Unlike Glass Onion, it has a zero on Rotten Tomatoes. Check out the movie Variety called “stunningly perfunctory,” “a taffy pull of tedium” and an endeavor that “can’t even charitably be said to be blah.” Guys, stop overselling it. You had me at the taffy pull. (Netflix)

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse — Idris Elba and Gabriel Byrne are among those lending their voices to an animated adaptation of Charlie Mackesy’s book, in which a trio of animal pals tries to help a youngster find a home. Sounds like they need a good realtor. Too bad none of those critters is a weasel. (Apple TV+)

Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical — The stage adaptation of Dahl’s classic children’s book is in turn adapted to film, with the title role performed by newcomer Alisha Weir. Or as she’s going to be remembered in 20 years, “that chick that knocked over the Kwik Mart.” (Netflix)

The Witcher: Blood Origin — While its flagship series trades out star Henry Cavill for Liam Hemsworth, the Witcher franchise distracts us with a four-episode prequel set 1,000 years before its main narrative. Stars Sophia Brown and Michelle Yeoh interpret the events that brought about the “conjunction of the spheres.” Wow, four whole episodes about the courtship of Tom and Roseanne? (Netflix)

PREMIERES MONDAY:

Letterkenny — The plot developments in Season 11 are said to include missing pets, an influx of influencers and “a mystery at the church bake sale.” I mean, I’d like to say that mystery has nothing to do with the missing pets … but after 11 seasons, you learn not to make promises. (Hulu)

Treason — Once and future Daredevil Charlie Cox plays the head of the MI6, brought back into contact with a beautiful Russian (Olga Kurylenko) from his complex past. Gosh, between this and the Jack Ryan business, you could spend most of the holidays watching the sofa collude with your ass. (Netflix)

Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair — To be the man, you gotta stream the man. The life and career of wrestling’s own Nature Boy are retraced in a 120-minute documentary that has Flair’s personal seal of approval. So you know it’s gotta be on the level! (Peacock)

PREMIERES TUESDAY:

Chelsea Handler: Revolution — For her fourth Netflix special, Handler takes on ripped-from-the-headlines topics like checks notes … dating during COVID. Aaaaand it’s time to whip out the Elmer’s and paste those headlines right back in again. (Netflix)

PHOTO COURTESY NETFLIX

New Benoit Blanc feature film Glass Onion makes its way from theaters to Netflix this week | photo courtesy Netflix

BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE

Orlando musician Derek Engstrom starts over again with solo album Easy Living

BY KYLE EAGLE

Every now and again some new music rolls down the pike that hits all the senses at once — a sophisticated pop gem that charms the ear, sparks the imagination and moves the heart, if not the feet as well. This is what Orlando musician Derek Engstrom has gifted us with on his newest album, Easy Living, a song cycle of personal tales of highs, lows, transitions and ultimately renewal.

The music on Easy Living would sit, well, easily on a playlist alongside the likes of Donald Fagen, Brian Wilson, Al Kooper or Paul Simon. What makes Engstrom’s music so compelling is that it’s drawn from a wide variety of sources that can’t be pinned down.

The atmosphere of Easy Living is a dreamy blend that welcomes the listener with strings, chimes, charming piano and conga flourishes, melded to vocal harmonies that comfort, tingle the spine and pull the heartstrings.

A sterling band of collaborators flesh out the album: regional heavy hitters like Anthony Cole, Rion Smith, Jorge Ito Colon, Christina Nakajima, Matt Lapham and Syoma Klochko, among others.

Prior to this album, Engstrom was the drummer and principal songwriter for the local soul-jazz group Leisure Chief, which fought the good musical fight in and around

the live music circuit here in Central Florida for many years. You can hear hints of that time well spent in the overall sonic fabric of Easy Living Orlando Weekly reached out to Engstrom for a deep dive into his new album.

How did you go from Leisure Chief to Easy Living?

I was writing a lot of jazz, soul and funk tunes. My dream was to go to New York and be a straight-ahead jazz drummer. After school I would go home and play along to Blue Note records, do my best Elvin Jones impression. Then I got into the more modern players like Brian Blade, a drummer who was writing music. On his album, Mama Rosa, he played guitar on it and that was my first instrument. Hearing that album opened my eyes to what else I could do, and that I don’t have to be just a drummer.

How did Easy Living start, what’s the story?

The writing started in 2021; I was just tired of writing the same way I had in the past and was searching for different outlets for my songs. It set me on this tangent which didn’t fit in with what I was doing with Leisure Chief. I wanted to have a linear progression that went with harmony. I wanted

to have the room to ruminate. The album is a slow burn, all the songs are a slow burn.

The songs on Easy Living do unfold in a way that allows the listener to cozy up to them.

I wanted all the songs to feel like they were building up to something. It wasn’t something I intentionally did, but I did want them to have the room and repetition to forget you’re listening to it and be surprised by it.

So with songs like “Come Along,” there’s that long piano intro and then the Wurlitzer comes in and we’re still not into the song until about a minute in, and it’s a slow burn, to bring it back to that. That’s a reference to the album cover with a small fire on the corner of the house.

The cover is eerie: a Florida suburban house, palm tree in the front yard, yet there is a small fire starting on the roof.

When I sketched it, it became an amalgamation of the house I grew up in Sheffield, Lake Mary. It was important to me in creating the backstory to the record itself in its revealing of my trauma and my past and me working through it. You know, you can have all these “things,” the suburban lifestyle, and there’s still that little fire in the corner and everyone’s got it but we don’t always talk about it, but it’s there. I came up with the sketch and Janet Lee rendered it and nailed it: the idea that it’s not a perfect existence here.

Talk about your vocal performances on the album.

Honestly, it’s a first for me because I did write these songs on piano, I fleshed them out on guitar, but this is a very piano-driven record. I don’t consider myself a great vocalist in the classic ability. I do think it comes from an honest place. I want it to be approachable.

The co-producer of Easy Living was Rion Smith, of Blue Man Group and Shak Nasti repute. Did his experience make him an architect of the album’s sound?

Absolutely. His home studio, 1509, is where I recorded the record. He built it himself and he mixed and mastered my music.

I couldn’t imagine myself recording at another place. If not there, I would want Rion in the room.

On the song “Rothko’s Room,” there are references to that artist, Kandinsky and Hieronymus Bosch — this song seems to stand out a bit from the rest thematically.

I wanted a song that had a monochromatic kind of feel, like Rothko’s art. I like artists and even reference one of my childhood friends in the song, Kieran Castaño (Central Florida visual artist and “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” newspaper cartoonist). My uncle was an oil painter, so I’ve always loved artists.

Every line in the song has some sort of reference to either an artist or a painting. That for me was a tribute and a reprieve from the more personal subject matter in the record. The song stands on its own and is a breath of fresh air before moving back into the rest of the songs.

Derek Engstrom will next play Will’s Pub on Jan. 14, and there’s a Hard Rock Live show with Matt Lapham and Anthony Cole in the works for February too. Keep an eye out also for a physical release of Easy Living in the near future, but for now the newly released album is on Engstrom’s Bandcamp for streaming and downloading.

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Derek Engstrom steps into the solo spotlight | photo by Courtney Edwards

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LOCAL RELEASES

While Orlando’s TV Dinner have been steadily honing their sound on stages over the past several years, they haven’t actually released any new recordings since 2017 debut album Table Manners. In that time, the band have progressively shed some of their early twee-pop hues for a moodier, more personal shade of indie rock. Their new mini-album, Leftovers, officializes that direction.

While still tender and melodic as always, the three songs here show a side of TV Dinner that rocks a little harder and gets even rawer with the emotion. Produced by talented Orlando polymath Chandler Strang (Saskatchewan, Case Work, etc.), Leftovers is TV Dinner’s brawniest, most assured guise yet.

It’s only the prelude to this new chapter, since these songs are actually just demos from an entire new Strang-produced album that’s nearly completed and planned for full release early next year. And yet another signal that TV Dinner are really leveling up is that they just officially enlisted Strang from behind the mixing board and into their ranks as a permanent guitarist.

With an appetizer like Leftovers, things bode well for the upcoming main course. It’s streaming everywhere but is available as a name-your-price download on Bandcamp.

Since reshuffling after parting ways with member Sean Mingo, O-grown experimental hip-hop act OHTWO have been simultaneously settling into their new groove and pushing themselves forward. On their new, eponymous album on hometown label Xylene Records, OHTWO’s Byson and Faust have further dug into the uniquely intimate dance that can happen between producer and MC. The result here is impressively equal-footed, a crisp and clarified interplay with both forces shaping the sound.

Even from the outset, OHTWO’s progressive rap has always looked beyond hip-hop fundamentalism. In a laudable sign that they remain committed to keeping their outlook in a constant gear of evolution, the new record takes a further post-rap step and ticks with a more assertive drum-and-bass kick.

While OHTWO still weave mood with Faust’s articulate cloud-rap stylings, the sonic dynamism here keeps it in motion thanks to Byson’s restless beat work.

The album features guest appearances by singer Honeybeamz, rapper 30racccz and Orlando industrial band TTN. The chemistry that defines this work, however, is one of focused artistic monogamy.

OHTWO now streams everywhere, with even a full version complete with visuals up on YouTube. But it can be fully yours as a name-your-price download on Xylene Records’ Bandcamp.

BY BAO LE-HUU

CONCERT PICKS THIS WEEK

Thursday Night Hang with Chris Cortez: Between all the sturm und drang of the holiday season, just an ounce of respite can quickly rocket to the top of anyone’s personal wish list. That’s why this casual weekly jazz performance headed by Blue Bamboo figurehead Chris Cortez is especially on-time right about now. Although Blue Bamboo showcases a wide range of national and area acts, the informal and intimate nights that Cortez personally hosts pack some of the most vibe and convey the soul of this musician-run place in its purest state.

This Thursday affair is anchored by Cortez, Walt Hubbard, Doug Mathews and Ed Krout. But true to the Boo’s for-musicians-by-musicians ethos, attending players are encouraged to bring their own instruments. After the house band’s concert set, they welcome anyone who’s game to join them in an open jazz jam session. Considering the musician community that surrounds this place, some surprise magic is practically guaranteed. Thanks to a grant by the City of Winter Park, it’s free. (8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 22, Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, free)

Body Shop,

The Synthetics, Altar Boy, KT Kink: In sound and attitude, this exciting young bill is pure underground. Between the primitive and evocative garage rock of Body Shop, the deep post-punk moods of new band the Synthetics, the EBM beats of KT Kink and the dark synth-pop of Altar Boy, the lineup cuts an excellent cross-section through Orlando’s most interesting edges and overflows with some of the city’s rising subterranean stars. It’s a state-of-the-scene sampler that’s probably the most current thing happening this week. (8 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 28, Will’s Pub, $10-$12)

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While still tender and melodic as always, the three demo songs on Leftovers show a side of indie rockers

TV Dinner that rocks a little harder and gets even rawer with the emotion. With an appetizer like this, things bode well for the upcoming main course

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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 22

Christmas With Soul

Orlandoan Ericka Dunlap brings back her holiday revue, promising soulful takes on Christmas tunes bolstered with choreography, costuming and big production. The former (or forever, as her fans would tell you) Miss Florida and Miss America will be joined by guest singers and an eight-piece band to deliver holiday chestnuts with that essential R&B oomph. There’s even a pre-show holiday dinner add-on. 7:30 p.m., Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave., drphillipscenter.org, $30 — Matthew Moyer

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, DEC. 22-23

Home for the Holidays

The Orlando Improv typically reserves prime nights for touring headliners, but this week, two comedians who came up in Orlando, Ken Miller and Carmen Morales, are treating everyone to two special nights with Home for the Holidays. Miller is Orlando’s comedy dad, known not just for his killer set but also for looking out for local comedians on the come-up. He mentored Preacher Lawson, and the two are still close. His set covers the gamut of grown life: parenting, HOA rules, relatable topics that he breathes new life into with clever twists and turns. Born in Buenos Aires, Morales got her comedy start in Orlando, too. She and Miller cut their teeth at the same time at the Why Not Lounge, a former Bonkerz location. She has since moved on to stages across the U.S. Now living in Los Angeles, she works at the legendary Comedy Store. She’s literally home for the holidays, like so many who return to Orlando at this time of year. “The Improv used to do this every Christmas. All the comedians that had moved to L.A. and New York would come to Orlando and do a show,” says Miller. If you’re looking for good times with the family — or a brief escape from them — this is your ticket. 7 p.m., Improv Orlando, 9101 International Drive, theimprovorlando.com, $15-$60.

— Sarah Kinbar

FRIDAY, DEC. 23

James Brown Holiday Jam

A lesser known fact about the Godfather of Soul James Brown is that he had a sizable (brand-new) bag of certified Xmas classics. (We’re particularly partial to “Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto” from the late 1960s.) But he’s also recorded gems like “Let’s Unite the Whole World at Christmas,” “Soulful Christmas” and “Christmas Is Coming.” You’ll likely hear the majority of these, plus all sorts of other deep Brown cuts — both Christmas-adjacent and not — during BMF’s annual holiday service. Glory be. 10 p.m., Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave., willspub.org, free. — MM

SATURDAY, DEC. 24

A Noise Before Christmas

If you think escaping family and loved ones by going to a mere bar is enough to put you on the naughty list over Christmas, you’ve got another thing coming. This Grinchly gathering, taking place in the wee hours of Xmas eve when Santa is out eating your cookies and pilfering through your liquor cabinet, is the real deal. Alongside Oblongata, Paint Sniffer and Shifted Grimm, you’ve got No Face from Tallahassee (formerly sniffle Orlando) doing physical — and often disguised — performance-art-noise, and the host of the evening, Central Florida outsider legend Jiblit Dupree, telling hardluck tales aplenty in his raw ’n’ primal love-hate anthems. ’Tis the season now, if it ever was. 8 p.m., Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave., price TBA. — MM

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Ericka Dunlap hosts ‘Christmas With Soul’ Wednesday night at the Dr. Phillips Center

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 21

Eugene Snowden and His Ten Pints of Truth 10 pm; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

Hard Swingin’ Country Soiree with Decker and Dimitrov 7 pm; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free; 407-748-8256.

SIR JAC: Prince Tribute Artist 6 pm; Fredster’s, 1720 Fennell St., Maitland; $15-$100; 321-444-6331.

A Solaria Solstice: Stirring Songs of the Season Music and poetry take us on a sonic journey through darkness into light. This program includes the music of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, as well as brand-new works sure to inspire. 6:15 & 8:15 pm; Timucua Arts Foundation, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave.; $62.50-$95.50; 407-595-2713; timucua.com.

The Steel Crows, Will May 9 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.; free; 407-270-9104.

THURSDAY, DEC. 22

Open Acoustic Jam with Raleigh and Friends All skill levels welcome. 8 pm; Muldoon’s Saloon, 7439 Aloma Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-657-9980.

Swiftiemas: A Taylor Swift and Friends Holiday Dance Party 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $15.

Thursday Night Hang Jazz jam session. 8 pm; Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts, 1905 Kentucky Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-636-9951.

FRIDAY, DEC. 23

Bad Santa and The Angry Elves, The Hamiltons, DJ The Reverend 8 pm; Will’s Pub, 1042 N. Mills Ave.; $12-$15.

Bay Street, Zapachi, Bozo, Tarek Kasmi 7 pm; Stardust Video and

Coffee, 1842 E. Winter Park Road; all ages; $8-$10; 407-623-3393.

Beautiful Music: Three Flutes Only 5 pm; Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park; free; 407-645-5311.

Karol G vs. Bad Bunny Tribute Party 7 pm; House of Blues, Disney Springs, Lake Buena Vista; $22-$80; 407-934-2583.

Max Miller 8 pm; Dees Brothers Brewery, 210 S. Magnolia Ave., Sanford; free; 407-732-4008.

Sundown Sessions: Hannah Stokes 7 pm; Lil Indie’s, 1036 N. Mills Ave.; free.

SATURDAY, DEC. 24

Aka Harley, Kenon, Save Our Selves 8 pm; Uncle Lou’s Entertainment Hall, 1016 N. Mills Ave.;$5; 407-270-9104.

Claire VanDiver 8 pm; Dees Brothers Brewery, 210 S. Magnolia Ave., Sanford; free; 407-732-4008.

Orlando Violin Music 1 pm; Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, 445 N. Park Ave., Winter Park; $6; 407-645-5311.

TUESDAY, DEC. 27

Jim Brickman: “A Very Merry Christmas” 3 & 7 pm; Alexis & Jim Pugh Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $48-$80; drphillipscenter.org.

FILM

A Christmas Story Frah-jeel-aay! It must be Italian! Wednesday, 3 pm; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $12.50; 407-629-0054; enzian.org.

Cult Classics: Goodfellas Now go home and get your f*cking shine box,

Tommy! Tuesday, 9:30 pm; Enzian Theater, 1300 S. Orlando Ave., Maitland; $11; 407-629-1088; enzian.org.

The Grinch Animal abuser robs (extremely) small town. Friday, noon; East Lawn at Lake Eola, 601 E. Washington St.; free; 407-8194528; downtownorlando.com.

The Polar Express Tom Hanks plays an animated train. Wait, that can’t be right … . Thursday, 7 pm; Cranes Roost Park, 274 Cranes Roost Blvd., Altamonte Springs; free; 407-571-8180; altamonte.org.

Wednesday Movie Night: The Nightmare Before Christmas Why, you have hands! You don’t have claws at all. Wednesday, 7:30 pm; Dees Brothers Brewery, 210 S. Magnolia Ave., Sanford; free; 407-732-4008; facebook.com/deesbrosbrew.

COMEDY

Choose Your Own Nog-venture A holiday-themed “choose your own adventure” reading where the audience helps decide the outcome. Hosted by professional doofuses DK Reinemer and Bruce Ryan Costella. Thursday, 7:30 pm; Savoy Orlando, 1913 N. Orange Ave; $15-$25; savoyorlando.com.

Shit Sandwich Amplifying and nurturing our city’s comedy scene. Saturday, 9 pm; Bull and Bush, 2408 E. Robinson St.; free; 407-8967546; bullandbushorlando.com.

THEATER

The Office Holiday Party Musical Extravaganza Show This show is for anyone who overshared romantic traumas with Karen from Finance after having just one too many Jingle Juices at our corporate holiday party three years ago. Through Dec. 23; Renaissance Theatre Company, 415 E. Princeton St.; $30; rentheatre.com.

Phantasmagoria Celebrate the holidays with the critically acclaimed Victorian horror troupe. Thursday and Friday, 7:30 pm; Athens Theatre, 124 N. Florida Ave., DeLand; $26-$31; 386-736-1500; phantasmagoriaorlando.com.

All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 Set along the Western Front during World War I, this moving work relates the historic events of Christmas Eve in 1914 through actual soldiers’ letters and official military correspondence interwoven with old war songs and carols. Friday, 7:30 pm, and Saturday, 2 pm; Steinmetz Hall, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, 445 S. Magnolia Ave.; $19-$129; 407-358-6603; drphillipscenter.org.

A Christmas Carol Presented by Orlando Shakes. Adapted by Jim Helsinger. The miserly and miserable Ebenezer Scrooge greets each Christmas with a “bah humbug,” until he is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Through Dec. 24; Margeson Theater, Lowndes Shakespeare Center, 812 E. Rollins St.; $25-$57; 407-447-1700; orlandoshakes.org.

Dickens by Candlelight

An Orlando holiday tradition performed all around you as you sip tea and indulge in Christmas cookies. Through Dec. 23; Audubon Park Covenant Church, 3219 E. Chelsea St.; $35; 321-274-7927; facebook. com/dickensbycandlelight.

Holiday Punch Spanning over three weekends, multi-award-winning singer and cabarista Laura Hodos returns to the Darden Courtyard stage to lift a glass of holiday cheer in this festive cabaret performance, filled with heartwarming seasonal tunes, comedy, and merriment. Friday, 8 pm, and Saturday, 3 & 8 pm; Orlando Shakes, 812 E. Rollins St.; $35; 407-447-1700; orlandoshakes.org.

True North: A Magical New Holiday Musical

With a wish, a letter and some unique seasonal help, the Patterson family discovers what just an ounce of belief can do. Wednesday, 2 & 7 pm; Orlando Repertory Theatre, 1001 E. Princeton St.; $15-$35; 407-896-7365; orlandorep.com.

EXHIBITIONS

2022 Florida Showcase A selection of contemporary Florida photographers and artists. Through Jan. 14; Snap Downtown, 420 E. Church St.; free; snaporlando.com.

All that Glitters: The Society of Gilders An installation in partnership with The Society of Gilders, an international and professional association devoted to the art and craft of gilding.

Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens, 633 Osceola Ave., Winter Park; $12; 407-647-6294; polasek.org.

Barbara Sorensen: Billows This immersive installation stays true to Sorensen’s preference for processbased sculpture. Rollins Museum of Art, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park; 407-646-2526; web.rollins.edu/rma.

Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From This groundbreaking traveling exhibition of works features secondgeneration immigrant artists who explore the dynamics of living between different cultures and the hybrid identities they lead. Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave.; $20; 407-896-4231; omart.org.

Figurehead: Music and Mayhem in Orlando’s Underground This special exhibition tells the story of how the company helped grow the local scene with a focus on underground rock music and the club circuit. Orange County Regional History Center, 65 E. Central Blvd.; free-$10; 407836-8500; thehistorycenter.org.

THE WEEK

Fumicheliga: A History of the First Peoples of Florida Florida has been home to thriving indigenous populations well before it received statehood in 1845. A&H will examine these important histories in this exhibition. Art and History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland; $6; 407-539-2182; artandhistory.org.

In Between: Painting the Post Immigrant Experience Visual narratives of the postimmigration experience unite to form a picture of modern American identity. Through Jan. 22, 2023; Art and History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland; $6; 407-539-2182; artandhistory.org.

In Conversation: Will Wilson Exploration of self-representation through the science of photography and digital media in response to the continuing impact of early 20th-century photographer Edward S. Curtis’s images from his The North American Indian (1907-1930). Mennello Museum of American Art, 900 E. Princeton St.; $5; 407246-4278; mennellomuseum.org.

Small Things Considered

Annual year-end art exhibition of works 10 inches by 10 inches or smaller. Arts on Douglas, 123 Douglas St., New Smyrna Beach; 386-428-1133; atlanticcenterforthearts.org.

Urbanlando Spotlights sections of the Urban scene in Orlando and surrounding communities by local artists JB, Santos, Nick SL, Miras, and Eric (The Wise Knight) Wise. Through Dec. 31; Kissimmee City Hall, 101 Church St., Kissimmee.

HOLIDAY

Asian Lantern Festival: Into the Wild Dozens of larger-than-life, hand-crafted lanterns that are lit by thousands of LED lights, resulting in a gorgeous display of color, light and sound that celebrates traditional Asian lantern festivals. Through Dec. 30, 6 pm; Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens, 3755 W. Seminole Blvd., Sanford; $19.99-$21.99; 407-3234450; centralfloridazoo.org.

Bivona Christmas Light Show

The Bivona family decks the halls with a fantastic display of Christmas lights that dance to the music. Through Jan. 1, 2023, 6:30 pm; Bivona Christmas Light Show, 1601 N. Wind Court, Winter Springs; free; bivonachristmas.com.

Christmas Nights in Lights

A dazzling drive-through holiday experience. The attraction is more than a mile long and features over 1.5 million dancing lights synchronized to holiday classics on a private radio frequency. Through Jan. 1, 2023, 6

pm; Dezerland Action Park, 5250 International Drive; $45-$65; 321754-1700; nightsinlights.com.

Dazzling Nights A stunning winter wonderland featuring a million dazzling lights, shining forests, magical displays, music and beautiful sculptures. Closed Dec. 25. Harry P. Leu Gardens, 1920 N. Forest Ave.; $12-$200; 407-2462620; dazzlingorlando.com.

Dinos In Lights Holiday Show

Join Stan the T-Rex and his fossil friends in DinoDigs as they show off their twinkling talent in a festive display of music and light. Each family-friendly show will begin every half hour and runs for four minutes, concluding with a wintry surprise. Through Jan. 3, 2023, 11 am; Orlando Science Center, 777 E. Princeton St.; free-$24; 407-514-2158; osc.org.

Holiday Blooms Thousands of colorful poinsettias along with beautiful, seasonal flowers and foliage create a wonderful, magical garden for the holiday season. Through Jan. 2, 2023, 9 am; Harry P. Leu Gardens, 1920 N. Forest Ave.; $15; 407246-2620; leugardens.org.

Holiday Characters: Snow Fairies The weather forecast is predicting snow. With the flurries come the fairies. Stop by to meet and get a photo with a beautiful snow fairy. 7 pm; Cranes

Jiblit Dupree hosts ‘A Noise Before Christmas’ Saturday night at Uncle Lou’s

PHOTO BY MATTHEW MOYER

WEDNESDAY–TUESDAY, DEC. 21-27, 2022

Roost Park, 274 Cranes Roost Blvd., Altamonte Springs; free; 407-571-8180; altamonte.org.

Holiday Fountain Show A crowd favorite, the Plaza fountain features special shows with dancing water and dazzling lights choreographed to classic holiday tunes. Through 6 pm; Cranes Roost Park, 274 Cranes Roost Blvd., Altamonte Springs; free; 407-571-8863; altamonte.org.

Holiday Light Displays Enjoy over 200,000 lights on more than 100 holiday displays. The highlight in the park is the 60-foot tall Christmas tree with more than 8,000 energyefficient LED lights, 2,600 ornaments and over one mile of garland. Through Jan. 1, 2023, 6 pm; Cranes Roost Park, 274 Cranes Roost Blvd., Altamonte Springs; free; 407-571-8863; uptownaltamonte.com.

Holidays at Caribe Programming includes Chocolate Holiday Wonderland displays, merry movies under the stars, specialty meals and menus, a “Jingle Jog,” Holiday Gnome Hunt, visits from Santa, and more. Through Jan. 1, 2023; Caribe Royale Orlando, 8101 World Center Drive; cariberoyale.com/holidays-at-caribe.

Ice! Don a provided parka and take a freezing cold walk through a dazzling indoor

display of ice sculptures, which this year features at least a dozen scenes from How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Through Jan. 1, 2023; Gaylord Palms Resort, 6000 W. Osceola Parkway, Kissimmee; $20-$40; 407-586-2000; christmasatgaylordpalms.marriott.com.

Lake Nona Lights Now celebrating its 10th consecutive year, this neighborhood lights display dazzles with lights synchronized to music in an impressive ongoing nightly show. Through Dec. 31, 6 pm; Lake Nona Lights, 9800 Old Patina Way; free; lakenonalights.com.

The Lights on Jeater Bend Now in its 14th year and final year, Jeater Bend features 11 homes with synchronized lights, music, projection, water & fire.

Through Dec. 31, 6 pm; The Lights on Jeater Bend, Jeater Bend Drive, Celebration; free; lightsonjeaterbend.com.

Night of a Million Lights Immerse yourself in a dazzling winter wonderland illuminated with millions of lights and filled with festive family activities and live entertainment for a one-of-a-kind, fully interactive holiday experience. Through Jan. 1, 2023, 6 pm; Island H2O Water Park, 3230 Inspiration Drive, Kissimmee; $30-$40; 407-910-1401; gktw.org.

Nookmas: A Holiday Affair

Decorate a free X-mas sugar cookie, take part in a white elephant exchange, drink mulled cider, boozy hot cocoa, seasonal beers. Festive outfits encouraged. Friday, 8 pm; The Nook on Robinson, 2432 E. Robinson St.; facebook. com/thenookonrobinson.

Shine Light Show Dazzles with thousands of dancing lights, syn chronized to a high-energy, seasonal soundtrack. Animated light curtains glow with Christmas im agery around a centerpiece tree that magically transforms into a gleaming and glowing holiday spectacle. Through Jan. 1, 2023, 9:15 pm; Gaylord Palms, 6000 W. Osceola Parkway, Kissimmee; free; 407-586-0000; christmasatgaylordpalms.marriott.com.

Winter Wonderland Nightly “snow” flurries and a dazzling Christmas tree forest complete with a 30-foot-tall giant tree centerpiece. Wekiva Island, 1014 Miami Springs Road, Longwood; free; 407-8621500; wekivaisland.com.

Yuletide: A Solstice Celebration Enjoy a path of twinkling luminar ies, live music on the terrace, and a moonlight carillon recital with sacred hymns. Wednesday, 5 pm; Bok Tower Gardens, 1151 Tower Blvd., Lake Wales; $17; 863-7341222; boktowergardens.org. n

Kierra Branker is featured in the 2022 Florida Showcase through Jan. 14 at Snap

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): To inspire your self-inquiry in 2023, I have chosen a passage from Hermann Hesse’s fairy tale “A Dream Sequence.” It will provide guidance as you dive further than ever before into the precious mysteries in your inner depths. Hesse addressed his “good ardent darkness, the warm cradle of the soul, and lost homeland.” He asked them to open up for him. He wanted them to be fully available to his conscious mind. Hesse said this to his soul: “Just feel your way, soul, just wander about, burrow into the full bath of innocent twilight drives!”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Cardiovascular surgeon Michael DeBakey lived until age 99. He almost died at 97, but was able to capitalize on an invention that he himself had created years before: a polymer resin that could repair or replace aging blood vessels. Surgeons used his technology to return him to health. I am predicting that in 2023, you, too, will derive a number of benefits from your actions in the past. Things you made, projects you nurtured and ideas you initiated will prove valuable to you as you encounter the challenges and opportunities of the future.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I decided to divine the state of your financial karma. To begin, I swirled a $10 bill through the flame rising from a green candle. Then I sought cosmic auguries in the burn patterns on the bill. The oracle provided bad news and good news. The bad news is that you live on a planet where one-fifth of the population owns much more than four-fifths of the wealth. The good news is that in 2023, you will be in decent shape to move closer to the elite one-fifth. Amazingly, the oracle also suggests that your ability to get richer quicker will increase in direct proportion to your integrity and generosity.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries author Eric G. Wilson has written a book that I might typically recommend to 40 percent of the Aries tribe. But in 2023, I will raise that to 80 percent of you. The title is How to Be Weird: An Off-Kilter Guide to Living a One-of-a-Kind Life. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it will make sense for you to stop making sense on a semi-regular basis. Cheerfully rebelling against the status quo should be one of your most rewarding hobbies. The best way to educate and entertain yourself will be to ask yourself, “What is the most original and imaginative thing I can do right now?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): One of your potential superpowers is cultivating links between the spiritual and physical worlds. If you develop this talent, you illuminate the ways that eternity permeates the

everyday routine. You weave together the sacred and the mundane so they synergize each other. You understand how practical matters may be infused with archetypal energies and epic themes. I hope you will be doing a lot of this playful work in 2023, Taurus. Many of us non-Bulls would love you to teach us more about these mysteries.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here are six fun and useful projects for you to cultivate in 2023. No. 1: Initiate interesting trends. Don’t follow mediocre trends. No. 2: Exert buoyant leadership in the groups you are part of. NO. 3: Practice the art of enhancing your concentration by relaxing. No. 4: Every Sunday at noon, renew your vow to not deceive or lie to yourself during the coming week. No. 5: Make it your goal to be a fabulous communicator, not just an average one. No. 6: Cultivate your ability to discern what people are hiding or pretending about.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 2023, I hope you will refine and deepen your relationship with your gut instinct. I will be ecstatic if you learn more about the differences between your lucid intuition and the worry-mongering that your pesky demons rustle up. If you attend to these matters — and life will conspire to help you, if you do — your rhythm will become dramatically more secure and stable. Your guidance system will serve you better than it ever has. A caveat: Seeking perfection in honing these skills is not necessary. Just do the best you can.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Psychiatrist and author Irvin Yalom wrote, “The question of meaning in life is, as the Buddha thought, not edifying. One must immerse oneself into the river of life and let the question drift away.” But Holocaust survivor and philosopher Viktor Frankl had a radically different view. He said that a sense of meaning is the single most important thing. That’s what sustains and nourishes us through the years: the feeling that our life has a meaning and that any particular experience has a meaning. I share Frankl’s perspective, and I advise you to adopt his approach throughout 2023. You will have unprecedented opportunities to see and know the overarching plan of your destiny, which has been only partially visible to you in the past. You will be regularly blessed with insights about your purpose here on earth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): As a young woman, Virgo-born Ingeborg Rapoport (1912–2017) studied medicine at the University of Hamburg in Germany. But in 1938, the Nazis refused to let her defend her Ph.D. thesis and get her medical degree because of her Jewish ancestry.

Seventy-seven years later, she was finally given a chance to finish what she had started. Success! The dean of the school said, “She was absolutely brilliant. Her specific knowledge about the latest developments in medicine was unbelievable.” I expect comparable developments for you in 2023, Virgo. You will receive defining opportunities or invitations that have not been possible before. Postponed breakthroughs and resolutions will become achievable.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Of the 2,200plus humans quoted in a 21st-century edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 164 are women — a mere 7 percent! At least that’s more than the four females represented in 1855’s first edition. Let’s take this atrocious injustice as our provocation for your horoscope. In accordance with astrological omens, one of your assignments in 2023 will be to make personal efforts to equalize power among the genders. Your well-being will thrive as you work to create a misogyny-free future. Here are possible actions: If you’re a woman or nonbinary person, be extra bold and brave as you say what you genuinely think and feel and mean. If you’re a man, foster your skills at listening to women and nonbinary people. Give them abundant space and welcome to speak their truths. It will be in your ultimate interest to do so!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To prepare you for 2023, I’m offering you wisdom from mythologist Michael Meade. Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Scorpios will be most likely to extract riches from it. Meade writes: “Becoming a genuine individual requires learning the oppositions within oneself. Those who fail or refuse to face the oppositions within have no choice but to find enemies to project upon. ‘Enemy’ simply means ‘not-friend’; unless a person deals with the not-friend within, they require enemies around them.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best,” declared Sagittarian opera singer Maria Callas (1923–1977). Many critics say she was indeed one of the 20th century’s best. The consensus is that she was also a temperamental prima donna. Impresario Rudolf Bing said she was a trial to work with “because she was so much more intelligent. Other artists, you could get around. But Callas you could not get around. She knew exactly what she wanted and why she wanted it.” In accordance with astrological omens, Sagittarius, I authorize you, in your quest for success in 2023, to be as “difficult” as Callas was, in the sense of knowing exactly what you want. But please — so as to not undermine your success — don’t lapse into diva-like behavior.

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I’m a 50-year-old cis straight female writing with a question about my son. He’s 19 and in college. I’m a single mom and we are very close. When he was 8, I found him on my laptop looking at videos of “strong women” wrestling with men. Since then, that’s all he looks at online and fantasizes about. There is a particular woman he follows. For a fee, you can wrestle with her. She engages in other acts as well (BDSM), but according to my son, sex is not permitted. He says her website is very clear about this. He assures me she’s legit and has only positive online reviews. I asked to look at her website, but he was reluctant to show me due to embarrassment. I didn’t push it. Then for his upcoming birthday he asked if I would split the cost of a session with this woman: $600!

My first concern is for his safety. Maybe I listen to too many true crime podcasts, but I’m worried that something bad will happen to him and I’ll never see him again. I know that many people visit sex workers and live to tell the tale. And now, as I sit here writing this, I realize that it’s sex workers who are the more vulnerable ones, so maybe his safety is a non-issue. Still, I’m his mom and I worry. My other concern is that engaging with this woman may mess him up sexually. He hasn’t had any prior sexual experiences and I’m worried that if this woman is his first experience, it will make ordinary, real-life pedestrian sex uninteresting for him in the future.

I have no one to talk with about this, which is why I’m reaching out to you. I’ve always maintained an open and nonjudgmental relationship with my son, but I’m really struggling with this. He already has an appointment and I’m superambivalent about this and need your reassurance.

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“I’ve always been kinky,” journalist and author Jillian Keenan wrote in her 2016 memoir Sex

With Shakespeare. “My fetish appeared early, long before I knew anything about kink or the diversity of sexual lifestyles. As a child, I pored over any book that mentioned spanking, paddling or thrashing. Tom Sawyer and The Whipping Boy went through many early reads, as did, believe it or not, key entries in the Oxford English Dictionary. … I looked up the definitions for spank, paddle, thrash and whip so often that, after a few years, my dictionary automatically fell open to those pages.”

Keenan’s memoir tracks her two lifelong obsessions: the plays of William Shakespeare (way kinkier than your high school English teacher ever let on) and her love of spanking, obsessions that have intersected and informed each other in surprising ways throughout her life.

Reading Sex With Shakespeare might give you some comfort, TGUSF. Because Keenan, who (like your son) was raised by a single mom, found a community of like-minded kinksters as an adult, found love and lost love and found love again, and along the way made a name for herself as a fearless foreign correspondent. And like Keenan, TGUSF, your son is kinky and always has been. Now, not every pre-pubescent child’s obsession becomes a full-blown kink in adulthood; if that were the way it worked, there would be a lot more dinosaur fetishists out there. (And there are some!) But your kid’s kinks, like Keenan’s kinks, were hard-wired early and a first sexual experience that’s strictly vanilla won’t erase them. He is who he is, TGUSF, and while dating is going to be a little bit more of a challenge for him, your son is going to have a much easier time finding like-minded perverts out there — friends, play partners and potential romantic partners — than kinksters did before the Internet came along.

All that said, I don’t think you should get your son a sex worker for his birthday (or go halfsies on one), TGUSF, and I don’t think your son should’ve asked you to. Being close is fine — being close is

wonderful — but you can be close and still have or establish healthy and appropriate boundaries. “There are things a mother has a right not to know,” my mom liked to say. She knew her kids, once we were adults, were out in the world taking risks and exploring our sexualities and making mistakes and sometimes getting into trouble. Mom was there for us when the shit hit the fan, but she didn’t want to know where we were, who we were with or what we were getting up to at all times — because she didn’t want to worry more than she, as a mom, was going to anyway. So, when I called my mom once from a sex dungeon in Berlin (on her birthday!) and she asked where I was, who I was with and what I was doing, I lied to her.

If your son is old enough to book a session with a sex worker, TGUSF, he’s old enough to pay for it himself. And if he needs to talk about it with someone and he doesn’t have a friend he can confide in about his kinks, well, that’s what Reddit and Twitter and sex-advice columnists are for. His sex life isn’t your business, and he shouldn’t make it your business.

Also not your business: how your son chooses to spend his birthday money. If he spends his birthday money on a PS5, that’s something he could share with his mom. If he spends his birthday money on a sex worker, that’s something he should lie to his mom about. If your son doesn’t know he should lie his mom about that kind of stuff yet — if he doesn’t know there are things a mom has a right not to know — then you’ll have to tell him.

P.S. My first sexual experiences were exactly what my mom wanted them to be — very straight and very vanilla — and they didn’t make me any less gay or any less kinky. That’s just not the way it works.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 18TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO. 2020-CA-000037. U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF THE LB-CABANA SERIES IV TRUST, Plaintiff, v. RODRIGUE CANGE, et. al, Defendant(s). NOTICE OF SALE PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 45. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Final Judgment in Foreclosure entered on August 29, 2022 and entered in Case No. 2020-CA-000037 in the Circuit Court in and for Seminole County, Florida, wherein U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE OF THE LB-CABANA SERIES IV TRUST, is Plaintiff, and RODRIGUE CANGE; RIVER OAKS MASTER PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.; THE SANCTUARY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, INC.; KETELINE CANGE; BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., are the Defendants The Clerk of the Court, Grant Maloy will sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, via https:// seminole.realforeclose.com, on January 3, 2023 at 11:00 a.m., the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit: LOT 665 OF THE SANCTUARY, PHASE 2 VILLAGES 2 AND 4, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 65, PAGES 92-100, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF SEMINOLE COUNTY, FLORIDA. PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: 13-21-315RP-0000-6650 and commonly known as: 3314 Heirloom Rose Pl, Oviedo, FL 32766 (the “Property”). Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the sale. IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDS ANY ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCEEDING, YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, TO THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN ASSISTANCE. PLEASE CONTACT THE ADA COORDINATOR, COURT ADMINISTRATION, OSCEOLA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 2 COURTHOUSE SQUARE, SUITE 6300, KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA 34741, (407) 7422417, AT LEAST 7 DAYS BEFORE YOUR SCHEDULED COURT APPEARANCE, OR IMMEDIATELY UPON RECEIVING THIS NOTIFICATION IF THE TIME BEFORE THE SCHEDULED APPEARANCE IS LESS THAN 7 DAYS; IF YOU ARE HEARING OR VOICE IMPAIRED, CALL 711”. Dated this 6th day of December, 2022. GHIDOTTI | BERGER LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 1031 North Miami Beach Blvd North Miami Beach, FL 33162 Telephone: (305) 501 2808; Facsimile: (954) 780.5578 By: /s/ Tara L. Rosenfeld Chase A. Berger, Esq. Florida Bar No. 083794 Tara L. Rosenfeld,

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE EIGHTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO: 59-2022-CA-001795 PAMELA J. KLOOTE, Plaintiff, vs. DALE D. HELLING, Defendant. NOTICE OF SALE To Defendant DALE D. HELLING, and all others whom it may concern, Notice is hereby given that pursuant to the Second Amended Final Judgment of Foreclosure entered on November 10, 2022, in Case No.: 59-2022-CA-001795 in the Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Seminole County, Florida, in which PAMELA J. KLOOTE is the Plaintiff, and DALE D. HELLING is the Defendant, the Seminole County Clerk of the Court, will sell at public sale the following described real property located in Seminole County: Lot 49, GROVE ESTATES, according to the Plat thereof as recorded in Plat Book 21, Page 20, of the Public Records of Seminole County, Florida. The above property will be sold on January 10, 2023, at 11:00 a.m. to the highest and best bidder online at https://www. seminole.realforeclose.com in accordance with § 45.031, Fla. Stat. Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the Lis Pendens must file a claim within sixty (60) days after the sale. DATED this 8th day of December, 2022. WINDERWEEDLE, HAINES, WARD & WOODMAN, P.A. 329 Park Avenue North, Second Floor Winter Park, FL 32789 Attorneys for Plaintiff Telephone: (407) 423-4246 By: /s/ Michael C. Caborn Michael C. Caborn Florida Bar No. 162477 mcaborn@whww.com

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JUVENILE DIVISION: 07/HIGBEE CASE NO: DP22-64, IN THE INTEREST OF Minor Child: B. G. DOB: 01/12/2020. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: Zuleika Bruno-Aponte Address Unknown: A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above referenced child. You are hereby commanded to appear before Honorable judge Heather Higbee on January 20, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES A CONSTRUCTIVE CONSENT TO THE TPR PETITION OF THE CHILD(REN) AND COULD RESULT IN THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD(REN). WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 14th day of December, 2022. This summons has been issued at the request of: George Lytle, Esquire Florida Bar No.: 985465 Orlando, FL 32801 George.Lytle@myflfamilies.com, CLERK OF COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk. (Court Seal)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. JUVENILE DIVISION: 3/TYNAN CASE NO.: DP14-304 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD: A.H. DOB: 08/19/2006. NOTICE OF ACTION FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Hyacinth Hall (Address Unknown) A Petition for

Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child. You are hereby commanded to appear before Honorable Circuit Judge Greg A. Tynan on January 20, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. The Hearing will be conducted in person. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD.

IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD NAMED IN THE PETITION. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 5th day of December, 2022. This summons has been issued at the request of: Jennifer McCarthy, Esq., Florida Bar No.: 0086793, Senior Attorney for State of Florida, Department of Children and Families, Children’s Legal Services/DCF Jennifer.McCarthy@myflfamilies.com. By: /s/ CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, Deputy Clerk (Court Seal)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA Case No.: 2022 DR 8425. WIDTZ CADET, Petitioner / Mother, and JERMAINE ANTONIO MURRAY, Respondent / Father. NOTICE OF ACTION FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF PATERNITY CASE TO: JERMAINE ANTONIO MURRAY LAST KNOWN: 2327 Outfield Dr., Orlando, FL 32837 YOU ARE NOTIFIED that an action has been filed against you and that you are required to serve a copy of your written defenses, if any, to it on Kaitlin Newton-John, Esq., whose address is 2431 Aloma Ave, Suite 124, Winter Park, FL 32792, on or before the 1st day of February, 2023, and file the original with the clerk of this Court at Orange County Courthouse, 425 N Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32801, before service on Petitioner or immediately thereafter. If you fail to do so, a default may be entered against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. The action is asking the Court to decide custody of a minor child, taking into consideration the factors enumerated in Florida Statutes, Section 61.13(3). Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request. You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office notified of your current address. (You may file Designation of Current Mailing and E-Mail Address, Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Form 12.915.) Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed or emailed to the addresses on record at the clerk’s office. WARNING: Rule 12.285, Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure, requires certain automatic disclosure of documents and information. Failure to comply can result in sanctions, including dismissal or striking of pleadings. Dated:10/4/2022. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/ Felicia Sanders, Deputy Clerk. 425 N Orange Ave, Suite 320, Orlando, FL 32801.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA JUVENILE DIVISION: 07/HIGBEE CASE NO: DP 21120 IN THE INTEREST OF MINOR CHILD: T.H.S. DOB: 11/27/2020. NOTICE OF ACTION TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: MICHAEL SAMSEL, ADDRESS UNKNOWN. A Petition for Termination of Parental

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Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced child. You are hereby commanded to appear before Circuit Judge Heather Higbee on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MIGHT LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILD NAMED IN THE PETITION. YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR. WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 1st day of December, 2022. This summons has been issued at the request of: Paul Karasick, Esq., Florida Bar No. 69216, paul.karasick@myflfamilies. com CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk (Court Seal)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA. DIVISION: 7/HIGBEE CASE NO.: DP18-325 In the Interest of: E.O DOB: 07/03/2015, minor child. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: ALEJANDRO ORDONEZ, ADDRESS UNKNOWN. A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above - referenced child, you are hereby commanded to appear before The Honorable Judge Heather Higbee on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. in court room 6 at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, FL 32806, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified: In Person. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS OF THIS CHILD (OR CHILDREN). IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR YOU MAY BE HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT. WITNESS my hand and seal of this court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 15th day of December, 2022. This summons has been issued at the request of: KIRSTEN TEANY, Esquire, Florida Bar No.: 0981540, Attorney for Department of Children and Families, Kirsten.Teany@myflfamilies.com. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT By: /s/ Deputy Clerk (Court Seal)

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR OSCEOLA COUNTY, FLORIDA DIVISION: 41 CASE NO.: 21-DP-62. IN THE INTEREST OF: D. L. L., DOB: 11/18/2018, A. G. L. C., DOB: 06/22/2021, Minor children. NOTICE OF ACTION AND OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS. STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: THALIA LOPEZ, Unknown Address. A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced children; you are to appear before Judge Laura Shaffer, on January 5th, 2023, at 2:30pm at the Osceola County Courthouse at 2 Courthouse Square, Courtroom 4C, Kissimmee, FL 34741, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR

ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD WHOSE INITIALS APPEAR ABOVE. “Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4) (d) and 63.082(6)(g), Florida Statutes, you are hereby informed of the availability of private placement with an adoption entity, as defined in Section 63.032(3), Florida Statutes.” WITNESS my hand as the Clerk of said Court and the Seal, this 5th day of December, 2022. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT (Court Seal) By: /s/ Deputy Clerk.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR OSCEOLA COUNTY, FLORIDA DIVISION: 41 CASE NO.: 21-DP-62. IN THE INTEREST OF: D. L. L., DOB: 11/18/2018, A. G. L. C., DOB: 06/22/2021, Minor children. NOTICE OF ACTION AND OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS. STATE OF FLORIDA. TO: CARLOS MAYSONET, Unknown Address. A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced children; you are to appear before Judge Laura Shaffer, on January 5th, 2023, at 2:30pm at the Osceola County Courthouse at 2 Courthouse Square, Courtroom 4C, Kissimmee, FL 34741, for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THIS CHILD. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS TO THE CHILD WHOSE INITIALS APPEAR ABOVE. “Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4)(d) and 63.082(6)(g), Florida Statutes, you are hereby informed of the availability of private placement with an adoption entity, as defined in Section 63.032(3), Florida Statutes.” WITNESS my hand as the Clerk of said Court and the Seal, this 5th day of December, 2022.

CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT (Court Seal) By: /s/ Deputy Clerk.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. IN AND FOR ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, CASE NO. DP21-00132. Juvenile Division: 07 IN THE INTEREST OF: B.K. DOB: 01/12/2009, R.P.M. DOB: 07/15/2016, minor children. SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF ADVISORY HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS STATE OF FLORIDA TO: Carlington Christopher Pinnock, address unknown. A Petition for Termination of Parental Rights under oath has been filed in this court regarding the above-referenced children. You are hereby commanded to appear before Honorable Heather L. Higbee on February 14, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. at the Juvenile Justice Center, 2000 East Michigan Street, Orlando, Florida 32806, Courtroom 6 for a TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS ADVISORY HEARING. You must appear on the date and at the time specified. For this hearing, all parties shall participate IN PERSON. FAILURE TO PERSONALLY APPEAR AT THIS ADVISORY HEARING CONSTITUTES CONSENT TO THE TERMINATION OF YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS TO THESE CHILDREN. IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR ON THE DATE AND TIME SPECIFIED, YOU MAY LOSE ALL LEGAL RIGHTS AS A PARENT TO THE CHILDREN NAMED IN THE PETITION. “Pursuant to Sections 39.802(4)(d) and 63.082(6)(g), Florida Statutes, you are hereby informed of the availability of private placement with an adoption entity, as defined in Section 63.032(3), Florida Statutes.” WITNESS my hand and seal of this Court at Orlando, Orange County, Florida this 22nd day of

November, 2022. This summons has been issued at the request of: CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT Michael M. Kest, Esq. Florida Bar No.: 27994 236 S. Lucerne Cir. East Orlando, Fl 32801 Michael@kestlaw.

com. CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, By: /s/ Jennifer Giles. Deputy Clerk

LOST OR ABANDONED PROPERTY FOUND OR RECOVERED WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF ORLANDO, FLORIDA. PROPERTY NOT CLAIMED WILL EITHER BE SURRENDERED TO THE FINDERS OR RETAINED FOR USE BY THE DEPARTMENT. PICTURE IDENTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.

December 2022

DESCRIPTION, FOUND PROPERTY:

1. Cellphones W. Sandlake Rd/Greenbriar Pkwy

2. Key fobs 100 Blk of N. Orange Ave

3. Cellphone 800 Blk of W. Central Blvd

4. Cellphones E. Colonial Dr. / N. Magnolia Ave

5. Cellphones 40 Blk of W. Washington St.

6. Cellphone 5300 Blk of Lake Margaret Dr.

7. Clothing 4200 Blk of Millenia Blvd

8. Cellphones 1200 Blk of W. South St.

9. Cellphone 5200 International Dr.

10. Cellphone 2400 Blk of E. Colonial Dr.

11. Electronics 40 Blk of W. Washington St.

12. Cellphones 100 Blk of E. Central Blvd

FOR INFO CALL (407) 246-2445, MONDAY

– THRU THURSDAY, 9:00 AM TILL 3:00PM

NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, ROBERT FREDERICK LENNON, of 1317 EDGEWATER DRIVE, 6200, ORLANDO, FLORIDA 32804, pursuant to the requirements of the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, is hereby advertising the following fictitious name:

ROBERT FREDERICK LENNON It is the intent of the undersigned to register

“ROBERT FREDERICK LENNON” with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Dated: 12/14/2022

Notice of Public Auction for monies due on storage units located at U-Haul company facilities. Storage locations are listed below. All goods are household contents or miscellaneous and recovered goods. All auctions are hold to satisfy owner’s lien for rent and fees in accordance with Florida Statutes, Self-Storage Act, Sections 83.806 and 83.807. The auction will start at 8:00 a.m. on January 5th, 2023 and will continue until all locations are done. U-Haul Moving and Storage at Maitland Blvd, 7815 North Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL 32810; B12 derius jones $370.05, B55 Lahreesia Blackmon $374.00, C28 BRUCE REAVIS $535.65, B05 Kecia Brown $668.00, D60 elismari quintana $556.20, U78 diamante taylor $441.90 U-Haul Moving and Storage of Altamonte Springs, 598 West Highway 436, Altamonte Springs, FL 32714; B121 PAMELA CRUZ $899.68 U-Haul Moving and Storage at Semoran Blvd, 2055 State Rd 436, Winter Park, Fl 32792; 1098

VALLAN NEAL $497.07, 1412 Jhoann Fernandez $518.85, 1051 TOMEKA HOLT $319.46, 1178 Joseph Phillips $582.94, 1195 amber johnson $418.88, 2182 TIMOTHY LUCERO $7,489.09, 1417 Jennifer Colon $502.07, 2318 Richard Santiago $486.52, 1454 clinton Thompson $319.46, 1221 Ruchelle Sutton $573.43, 2161 TIMOTHY LUCERO $7,499.74 U-Haul Moving and Storage at Longwood, 650 North Ronald Reagan Blvd, Longwood, FL 32750; A090 Christopher Brown $468.52,

E028 Vinnessa Ferguson $490.01, E073

Larhanda Jones $540.18, C049 Alfred Harris $693.83, A022 Amy Noon $857.08

U-Haul Moving and Storage at Lake Mary Blvd, 3851 S Orlando Drive, Sanford, Fl 32773; 1282 MARCIA JONES $637.74, 2591 Keiyshard Bobb $287.51, 1492 jozelain romero $409.80, 1047 jayna fox $960.85, 5072 Lisette Bolton $612.28, 2401 colette hays $793.20, 1324 Jose Zouain $327.35, 2035-39 TRACY KEENAN $694.76, 1611 PATRICIA LINDEMAN $823.62, 5030 Torrence Evans $790.81, 1573-75 Johanna Jagdeo $826.51, 2552

Elizabeth Washburn $748.15, 2048 BLAS FABRE $297.35, 1306-08 leshanda black $683.26, 1091 Mystery Room $1,241.24, 5024 Jamie Strickland $830.26, 2728

Demarcus Miller $406.06, 1726 Marie Carini $165.55 U-Haul Moving & Storage of Sanford, 3101 S Orlando Drive, Sanford, FL 32773; 1427 Shadareya Aguillera $530.50, 1540 OB TALLEY $623.60, 1248 Frances Cunningham $490.75, 1790 Latoya Howard $431.90, 1832 Jennifer Padilla $405.60, 1617 Renata Fanara $641.60, 0150 Amanda Combs $731.85, 1849 KELLY BRADLEY $800.90, 1604 robert fishburn $743.50, 1652 Jodiann Allen $310.42, 0103 DENISE THOMAS $847.22, 1432 Repoleon Porchia JR $737.70, 1967 JANELLE WOODS $437.40, 1321-23 ETHEL MCQUEEN $744.17, 0160 Jasmine Walker $638.48, 1723 Lois Miller $783.32, 0127 Johnny Pantojas $598.48, 1308 Vicky King $321.00, 1297 Robert Badders $296.36, 1068 lawanda Tillmon $924.04, 1653-55 JACOB AYERS-WEBB $1,248.62, 1751 Aaron Joseph Marcum $515.60, 1927 ASHLEY RICHARDS $576.00, 1468 Hector Torres $490.75 U-Haul Moving and Storage of Sanford on Rinehart Road, 1811 Rinehart Road, Sanford, Fl 32771; 3081 Sterle Scott $367.44, 4189 Leon Gray $686.68, 4079 Mystery Room $1,075.40, 4122 Saulene Rondil $359.30, 3080 Tracey Nelson $838.35, 4037 kara Justice $449.20, 3159 PORTIA WASHINGTON $439.16, 2107 Angelo Cashe $533.37, 4156-57 Barbara Rosenwinkel $784.44, 4201 Cornelius Wesley $640.12, 2074 RENATA KING $383.34, 3121

Jocqui Burrows $345.44, 3120 Shaquana Beard $816.32, 2155 ALEXISC FORD-ST FLAVIEN $851.75.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION FOR MONIES DUE ON STORAGE LOCKERS LOCATED AT UHAUL COMPANY FACILITIES. STORAGE LOCATIONS AND TIMES ARE LISTED BELOW. ALL GOODS SOLD ARE HOUSEHOLD CONTENTS, MISCELLANEOUS OR RECOVERED GOODS. ALL AUCTIONS ARE HELD TO SATISFY OWNER’S LIEN FOR RENT AND FEES IN ACCORDANCE WITH FLORIDA STATUTES, SELF STORAGE ACT, SECTIONS 83.806 AND 83.807, STARTS AT 8:00am and RUNS CONTINOUSLY. U-Haul Gatorland, 14651 Gatorland Dr, Orlando Fl 32837 01/03/2023: 390 Harvey Backus, 447 Leah Layne, 1023 Stefany Ayala, 527 Michael Zurita, 810 Juan Rosario, 986 Virgina Long, 241 Marlyn Mcnair, 919 Josean Ayala, 368 John Eustace, 544 Juan Rosario, 733 Alphonse Bruno, 1041 Fotini Tziotis, 830 Mando Garcia, 782 Roberto Sanchez Martinez, 580 Jerome Thompson, 701 Destiny Turturiello, 556 Caleb Maxie. U-Haul Narcoossee, 7800 Narcoossee Rd Orlando, Fl 32822 01/03/2023: 3347 Jermeil Saunders, 1321 Blanca Rodriguez, 2236 Gebral Hicks, 1141 Manuel Figueroa, 3098 Jermaine Bonner, 1000 Nitza Rosado, 3181 Manuel Arroyo, 1140 Leinad Cross, 3069 Kendall Derrico, 3166 Kendall Derrico, 1084 Michael Wison, 2388 Paula Cardenas, 3048 Joel Rodriguez, 3455 Luis Padilla, 3074

Carlos Rodriguez. U-Haul Hunter Creek 13301 S. Orange Blossom Trl. Orlando Fl. 32837 01/03/2023: 1072 Tyler Willett, 3087 Eduard Surinach, 2515 Theresa Schage,

1307 Cheryl Green, 1050 Sharmean Alford, 1514 Heather Brucato, 3084 Fernando Marmolejos, 1306 David Bower, 1033 Bryon Ward, 1086 Claudia Lacey, 3309 Luis Santiago, 1509 Virginia Abreu, 2101 Stewart Humberto Bolivar, 3334 James Curtis, 2105 Ricky Sanchez, 2601 Emilio Marquez Garcia, 3503 Gustavo Celli, 1706 Shareka Clark, 1724 Johnathan Bermudez, 1722 Leticia Valdes, 1231 Gustavo Celli, 2084 Thiago Sabino.

Notice Of Public Sale

Personal property of the following tenants will be sold for cash to satisfy rental liens in accordance with Florida Statutes, Self Storage Facility Act, Sections 83-806 and 83-807. Contents may include kitchen, household items, bedding, toys, games, boxes, barrels, packed cartons, furniture, trucks, cars, etc. There is no title for vehicles sold at lien sale. Owners reserve the right to bid on units. Lien sale to be held online ending Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at times indicated below. Viewing and bidding will only be available online at www.storagetreasures.com beginning at least 5 days prior to the scheduled sale date and time! Also visit www.personalministorage. com/Orlando-FL-storage-units/ for more info. Michigan Mini-200 W Michigan St Orlando, FL 32806-at 10:30am: 7 Richard Vega 55 David Tyrone Hill Personal Mini Storage Forsyth-2875 Forsyth Rd Winter Park FL, 32792-at 10:00 am: 246 Therese

Tucker 336 Reno Burnett 356 Miguel Castanon Torres 455 Ferdinand Gonzalez 493 Melissa Simpler 498 Yraliz Perez 535 Kirstie Hilaire 540 Sheila Sanchez

Personal Mini Storage West-4600 Old Winter Garden Rd Orlando, FL 32811-at 11:30 am: 95 Pamela Walker 96 Jesse

Watkins 132 Curtis Holland 147 Anthony Anderson 152 Alvivon Williams-Mbugua 157 Yolanda Williams 161 Yolanda Jones 181 Samuel Demming Jr 188 Shawanda Mendez 231 Earnest Sanders III 237

Shayeon Davis 324 John Rodriguez 371 Nils Sims 425 Sharrice Abney 435 Tara Jones 491 Tyqueria Rivers 508 Artavious Kelly 527 Litani Desir 530 Tylia Freeman 531 Karen Watson 540 Maria Herard 552 Channson Darisaw 565 Adeail Fontenot 617 Donisha Addison 637 Latoya

Williams Personal Mini Storage Lake Fairview-4252 N Orange Blossom Trail Orlando, FL 32804-at 11:00 am: 44 Rodolfo Arellano 81 Sharrice Abney 166 Everett Bryant 186 Tyron Brown 254 Michael Viera 271 Andreca Dawkins 612 Andrew Russo 632 Sean Barriero 672 Brittany Wright 966 Lavetris Sims Personal Mini Storage Edgewater-6325 Edgewater Dr Orlando, FL 32810-at 11:30 am: 103 Sherry Marie Banks 227 Jose Marrero 327 Janice Walter 333 Valeria Johnson 339 Jovan Donovan Henry 421 Allan Sears 427 Jacorey Bush 506 Franklin Hughes 606 Laura Mitchell 707 Edwin Roman 937 Michelle S Rosales 1031 Javia Lee 1117

Josiah Salina 1122 Shamari Ingram 1220

Edward Lee Pitts 1630 Robin Oelerich 1752 Michele Des’Joise Prowell 2107 Sedia Plata Miro 2130 Yachira Pabon, 2021 homemade trailer #NOVIN020134660

Personal Mini Storage Forest City Rd6550 Forest City Rd Orlando, FL 32810-at 12:00 pm: 1045 Alexis Michelle Sheppard 1058 Larry Blue 1101 Esther Leefatt 3130

Carlos Wright, Jr. 3274 Whitney Green 4044 Darrius Clayton 4057 Hope Stokes 4106 Benjamin Allen 5050 Guemsnel Maurepas 5053 Charles Solloway 6005 Rose Tremblay.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY

Notice is hereby given that Mindful Storage will sell at public auction, to satisfy the lien of the owner, personal property described below belonging

to those individuals listed below at the following times and locations: January 18th, 2023 9:30am Mindful Storage facility: 900 Cypress Pkwy. Kissimmee, FL 34759 (321) 732-6032 The personal goods stored therein by the following: #1078-Households, #1072- Households, #1040-Households, #1039-Households, #1002-Furniture, #2236- Furniture, #2106Households, #2089-Furniture, #2076-Boxes, #2004-Luggage. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Mindful Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

Notice of Public Sale: Pursuant to F.S. 713.78 on January 6th, 2023 at 9:00 am, Riker’s Roadside Of Central Florida, INC, 630 E Landstreet Rd, Orlando, FL 32824, will sell the following vehicles and/or vessels. Seller reserves the right to bid. Sold as is, no warranty. Seller guarantees no title, terms cash. Seller reserves the right to refuse any or all bids;

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2016 / FORD WBAPH73599E127625 2009 / BMW 5NPDH4AE2GH689001 2016 / HYUN JA32U8FW6GU006023 2016 / MITS 1N4AL21E29N546788 2009 / NISS WVGBE77L28D042141 2008 / VOLK 1N4AL11D46C232777 2006 / NISS 1N4AA5AP3DC838608 2013 / NISS 3N1CN8EV7ML863133 2021 / NISS 4YMBU0811LG021653 2020 / CTRA

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE:

ADAM AYED ENTERPRISES LLC gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on 1/06/2023, 09:00 am at 9712 RECYCLE CENTER RD ORLANDO, FL 32824- 8146, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes.

ADAM AYED ENTERPRISES LLC reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all bids.

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2008 FORD

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2014 KIA

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2016 NISS 5TDJZRFH1KS979071

2019 TOYT

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2021 CADI.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE:

CORTES TOWING SERVICE gives notice that on 1/06/2023 at 10:00 AM the following vehicles(s) may be sold by public sale at 245 ORANGE AVE., LONGWOOD, FL 32750 to satisfy the lien for the amount owed on each vehicle for any recovery, towing, or storage services charges and administrative fees allowed pursuant to

Florida statute 713.78.

5TDZT34A85S260850 2005 TOYT 2CKDL33F486308360 2008 PONT 5NPET46C59H575524 2009 HYUN 1HGCP2F63CA172507 2012 HOND 1G1ZB5ST8GF265982 2016 CHEV

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 08:00 am at 2603 OLD DIXIE HIGHWAY KISSIMMEE, FL 34744, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. reserves the right to accept or reject any and/or all bids.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 08:00 am at 10850 COSMONAUT BLVD ORLANDO, FL 32824, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. reserves the right to accept or reject any and/ or all bids.

JANUARY 8, 2023 1N4BA41E56C860142 2006 NISS 1YVHP80C675M47804 2007 MAZD 3KPFL4A73HE047143 2017 KIA JANUARY 9, 2022 JA32W8FV9FU023513 2015 MITS JANUARY 12, 2022 4T1BE46K38U778285 2008 TOYT JA4LS21HX2J024708 2002 MITS JANUARY 13, 2022 1G2NF52F62C130034 2002 PONT 3N1BC11E98L368193 2008 NISS 3VW2K7AJ7CM388328 2012 VOLK KNADE163X66109773 2006 KIA JANUARY 15, 2022 1GDFG15R1V1075001 1997 GMC 5NPDH4AE6FH566588

2015 HYUN

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: NEW GENERATION TOWING AND RECOVERY, LLC. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 08:00 am at 2603 OLD DIXIE

to accept or reject any and/or all bids.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Preston’s Towing. gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates, 07:00 am 605 E Donegan Ave, Kissimmee, FL 34744, pursuant to subsection 713.78 of the Florida Statutes. Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid. Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale: 1/2/2023 1N4AL3AP1JC189157 2018 NISS 1/9/2023 WDDNG71X87A057224 2007 MERZ 3B7HF13Y8VG829118 1997 DODG 1N4AL3AP9GN352456 2016 NISS 4T1BF3EK2BU145079 2011 TOYT JM1BK343051266113 2005 MAZD 1G1PC5SB6F7236923 2015 CHEV 1/10/2023 JHMCN36475C006991 2005 HOND JTHBA30G445022806 2004 LEXS 1FDEE14H5THA59270 1996 FORD 1/11/203 4T1BF1FKXGU262385 2016 TOYT KMHDN45D53U575497 2003 HYUN 1/12/2023 JH4DC4450YS011343 2000 ACUR

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Legal, Public Notices

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 5341 – 2310 W Carroll St, Kissimmee, FL 34741 to satisfy a lien on TUESDAY, January 10, 2023 at approx. 11:00 am at www.storagetreasures.com: Harris Airimus Desmond/ Wilfredo Gonzalez Miranda/ Symone Cherrise Brown/ Carolina Sanchez/ Arianna Walls/Arianna Holbrook/ Ms Arianns Walls/ Arianna A Walls/ Ariannawalls A Walls NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 6174 – 1004 North Hoagland Blvd. Kissimmee, Fl. 34741 to satisfy a lien on TUESDAY, January 10, 2023 at approx. 11:30am at www.storagetreasures.com: Joe Castro/ Shonka Thomas/ Jose Luis Jr Marrero

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 6177 – 1830 E Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy. Kissimmee, Fl. 34744 to satisfy a lien on TUESDAY, January 10, 2023 at approx. 12:00 pm at www.storagetreasures.com: Sue Acosta/ Harris Roderick Meredith/ Eshad L Evans/ Shawnta Taylor/ JOEL BIENVENIDO JONGCO

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 0671 – 100 Mercantile Court, Ocoee, Fl 34761 to satisfy a lien on WEDNESDAY, January 11, 2023 at approx. 10:30am at www.storagetreasures.com: Matthew Tisbert/ Paul Hansin/ Shah Shaltouki / Shahrokn Shaltouki/ John Frederick Coocen/ Asia Moore/ Xiomayra NIeves Viera/ Taylor / Taylor Mae Zimmerman/

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 0693 – 1015 North Apopka Vineland Road, Orlando, FL 32818 to satisfy a lien on WEDNESDAY, January 11, 2023 at approx. 11:00am at www.storagetreasures. com: Kimberly Abraham / KA / Tiara Merritt/ Shadeana Oliver / SM / Sherae Smith / SS / Marykate Carolan / Cristiane Gusmao / David Modeste/ Allante Jeffries / Lorenzo M Rivera / Lorenzo Rivera

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 0420 –5301 N. Pine Hills Road, Orlando Fl 32808 to satisfy a lien on WEDNESDAY, January 11, 2023 at approx. 11:30am at www.storagetreasures.com: Rachelle Kashey Stanley/ Francharia williams/ Darrya Kennedy/ Mara Belizaire/ Kwana Sheree Sheree Hamilton/ Tamika Shantrell Tolbert/ Precious Qweasha Mcgee/ Orlemise Joseph/ Spencer Collins/ Kamaria Jackson NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 0430 –7400 West Colonial Dr, Orlando Fl 32818 to satisfy a lien on WEDNESDAY, January 11, 2023 at approx. 12:00 pm at www. storagetreasures.com: Refresh Beverage Company LLC / Adan Sanders/ Adan F Sanders Jr./ Javier Carrion Ramos/ Silancia Delivrance NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 5868 –4752 Conroy Storage Lane, Orlando Fl 32835 to satisfy a lien on THURSDAY, January 12, 2023 at approx. 10:30am at www.storagetrea-

sures.com: Robin Nicole Robertson/ Natalie Barrera/ William Aaron Jenkins/ Christine Ducille Taylor/ Joan Butler/ Phillip Horn/ Micheal Seamus OConchubair/ Victoria Jeanne Haberek/ Letrice Lashawn Greene/ D’Airrien Lashey Jackson/ Sierra E Robinson NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart #351 – 10425 S. John Young Parkway, Orlando FL 32837 to satisfy a lien on THURSDAY, January 12, 2023 at approx. 11:00am at www.storagetreasures.com: Ronecia Knowles/ Reginald Wiley/ Carmen Standfill/ Jose Rafael Marte NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 5961 – 1540 Sullivan Rd., Davenport, FL 33896 to satisfy a lien on THURSDAY, January 12, 2023 at approx. 12:00pm at www.storagetreasures.com: Kathleen Rossin/ Kevin Ray/ Julie Lynne Johnson/ Dion Horne/ Tisha D Moody/ Paul Thomas Rodgers/ Cesar Vargas/ Jesse Kohl Miller/ Ericka Rivera / NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage unit contents of the following customers containing household and other goods will be sold for cash by CubeSmart # 5694 – 7720 Osceola Polk Line Rd., Davenport, FL 33896 to satisfy a lien on THURSDAY, January 12, 2023 at approx. 12:00pm at www.storagetreasures.com: Alison M Ramsey.

NOTICE OF SALE

Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty. Seller gives Notice of Foreclosure of Lien and intent to sell these vehicles on the following dates at 7AM. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid. Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale: 1/13/2023

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NOTICE OF SALE

Vehicles will be sold as is, no warranty. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid. Terms of bids are cash only. Buyer must have funds on hand at time of sale: 2003 Chevy

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training programs and customer service initiatives. Evaluate and manage staff performance. Handle customer inquiries and complaints. Requirements: Two years of progressive experience as an Administrative Supervisor. At least one out of the two years with experience in accounts receivables. Send resume to: reyna@trueairconditioning.com with “AS-TAC” in the subject line.”

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is a global semiconductor company that designs & develops a wide range of microprocessors & graphic processor units.

AMD has the following positions in Orlando, FL:

Sr. Silicon Design Engineer positions to Research, design, develop, and/or test electronic components and systems for semiconductor and related device manufacturing.

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BUSINESS PARTNER for Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando FL) to prvd comrcl, fincl & cntrctl advc for ofrs & tndrs (incl prc clcltns, trms & condtn, csh flw, risk assmnts, etc.). Req Mast in Busn, Fnc, Lgl, or rltd + 2 yrs exp in job offrd or acc alt occu. Altrntvly emplyr wl acpt a Bach dgr + 5 yrs exp in job ofrd or acptbl altrnt occu. Mst hve fl trm exp w/: ablty to wrk on prjcts of vryg amnts & acrs var cntrct strctrs (Sply only, Sply & Instltn, Lngr Trm Priod Cntrcts, Lng Trm Serv Agrmnts); exp w/ MS Ofc, DAMEX, PATAC, LoA Tool, & Slsfrc; exp in Comrcl Sls. As fed cntrctr, Siemens Enrgy cntn to mntr fed & stte lgl gdlns re COVID-19 vccne mndte. Siemens Enrgy is pausng mndtry vccne plcy whle addrssd bycourts. SEI wll mntr the stuatn clsly & may reimplmnt its plcy if req to cmply w/ fed law. Should vccne plcy be reimplmntd, this pstn req ees to be flly vccntd agnst COVID-19 unlss grntd a med or relgious accmmdtn. Mail rsms Michael Kellermann, Siemens Energy, Inc., 4400 N Alafaya Trail, Orlando, FL 32826. Ref MK/DB. Must be authrzed to wrk in US prmnntly.

in hot-gas pth cmpnt dsg & optmztn. Req Bach in Mech Eng, Aero Eng, or rltd + 4 yrs exp in job offrd or acc alt occu. Mst hve 2 yrs exp w/: trbmchnry rsrch & dvlpt; CFD, incl ablty to stup, prfrm, & intrprt CFD rslts w/ a hgh lvl of exprts prtclrly for cmplx trbne aero flow flds; Trbne Dsg Optmztn, incl ablty to stup, prfrm, & intrprt aerdynmc & mlt-dscplnry optmztn dsg & anlys prcs for gas trbne flw pths & cmpnts; Gas trbn heat trnsfr dsg & anlys of blde, vane, & othr flow pth cmpnts; Gas trbne flw pth aerdynmc thrmdynmc prfrmnc anlys, incl dfusrs; Tst rig cncptlztn, stup, opr, & data rdctn for gas trbne aerdynmc prfrmnc quntfctn & vldtn. Approx 20% trvl req. As fed cntrctr, Siemens Enrgy cntn to mntr fed & stte lgl gdlns re COVID-19 vccne mndte. Siemens Enrgy is pausng mndtry vccne plcy whle addrssd bycourts. SEI wll mntr the stuatn clsly & may reimplmnt its plcy if req to cmply w/ fed law. Should vccne plcy be reimplmntd, this pstn req ees to be flly vccntd agnst COVID- 19 unlss grntd a med or relgious accmmdtn. Mail rsms Michael Kellermann, Siemens Energy, Inc., 4400 N Alafaya Trail, Orlando, FL 32826. Ref MK/FI. Must be authrzed to wrk in US prmnntly.

ENGINEERING: Principal Engineer for Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando FL). Coordnte dev of cost effctve & innvtve civil eng sltns. Req Bach in Civil Eng, Strctrl Eng, or rltd + 8 yrs exp in job offrd or acc alt occu. Mst hve 8 yrs exp w/: powr plnt indstry cnstrctn & dsgn; bldg codes & seismc dsgn reqs of US & Latin Amrca; coordntng & exctng detail dsgn of foundtns, dsgn & cnstrct bldgs, undrgrnd utlties & strm watr drainge drng prjct exctn stge. Approx 15% trvl req. As fed cntrctr, Siemens Enrgy cntn to mntr fed & stte lgl gdlns re COVID-19 vccne mndte. Siemens Enrgy is pausng mndtry vccne plcy whle addrssd bycourts. SEI wll mntr the stuatn clsly & may reimplmnt its plcy if req to cmply w/ fed law. Should vccne plcy be reimplmntd, this pstn req ees to be flly vccntd agnst COVID-19 unlss grntd a med or relgious accmmdtn. Mail rsms Michael Kellermann, Siemens Energy, Inc., 4400 N Alafaya Trail, Orlando, FL 32826. Ref MK/MM. Must be authrzed to wrk in US prmnntly.

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ENGINEERING: System Engineer / TA, TB & SGT Application Support Engineer for Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando, FL). Resp for applyng advncd spcialzd & trdmrkd knwldge of Siemens’ prprietry gas trbnes in ordr to prvde engnrng spprt for ongoing outges in N. Amrca thrgh drct intrctn w/ fld srvce prsnnl & prvde tech spprt for outge plnnng actvties w/ the local Prjct Mngrs. Req. Bach or frgn equiv in Eng, Aerospce Tchnlgy, or a rel fld + 3 yrs of exp in the job offrd or in an acc alt occu. Mst hve 3 yrs of exp w/ the fllwng sklls: oprtnl knwldge of small gas trbnes (SGT100-400) & rtatng equpmnt, hve exp as a trainr/instrctr w/in the tech fld to enble trainng of cllgues; to implmnt effctve tech chnge & bsnss imprvmnt, to spprt our rgionl grwth & dev. Approx 10-25% trvl req. As fed cntrctr, Siemens Enrgy cntn to mntr fed & stte lgl gdlns re COVID-19 vccne mndte. Siemens Enrgy is pausng mndtry vccne plcy whle addrssd bycourts. SEI wll mntr the stuatn clsly & may reimplmnt its plcy if req to cmply w/ fed law. Should vccne plcy be reimplmntd, this pstn req ees to be flly vccntd agnst COVID-19 unlss grntd a med or relgious accmmdtn. Mail rsms

Michael Kellermann, Siemens Energy, Inc., 4400 N Alafaya Trail, Orlando, FL 32826. Ref MK/CH. Must be authrzed to wrk in US prmnntly.

SCJS FRANCHISING INC. is looking for a Franchise Operations Manager in ORLANDO, FL. Duties: Create franchise op policies related to H.R. vendors/suppliers/business dev. of multiple IZSAM franchise locations; direct/assign post const. cleaning projects to subordinate supervisors; manage subordinate supervisors/ensure complete and satisfactory project delivery w/n franchise standards; monitor suppliers/ensure efficient and effective delivery of goods/services w/n budget; manage clt relations/customer satisfaction efforts; review fin. statements/other KPIs to report areas of productivity improvement/cost reduction to upper mgmt. Sal.: $43,306.00/yr.

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ENGINEERING: Service Engineer for Siemens Energy Service Company Ltd. (Orlando, FL) rspnsbl for rpr/upgrd, comsng, tung, opr & mntnce of Cmbusn Trbne/Stm Trbne/Gnrtr instrmntn & cntrls sys. Req Bach* dgr in Instrmntn & Cntrls, or rltd + 5 yrs exp in job offrd or acc alt occu. Mst hve 8 yrs of exp w/ flwg skls: mntnce & opr exp w/ Siemens or Wstnghse Cmbstn Trbnes, nxt gen gas trbnes, Stm Trbne & Gnrtrs; extnsv exp w/ SPPPA T3000, TXP, OVATION & WDPF Cntrl Sys; wdsprd knwldg of Comsng, Strtup & Tung of mltfuel trbnes; undrstndg of Stm, Gas & Gnrtr instrmntn; prfcient in intrprtg & undrstndg Mech, I&C, PI&D & elctrcl drwgs & schmtcs.

Requirements: bachelor’s in Business Admin. or related area of study, 2 yrs of exp. as Franchise Manager in US, Ovrtime, wkend, holiday work req., freq. travel to hq in Omaha, NE req. Send resumes to: DANNIE BENNETT JR. 12411 LOCHMOOR CIRCLE, BELLEVUE, NE 68123

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AIR HVAC, INC. Assign and monitor clerical and administrative responsibilities and tasks among office staff. Review and analyze special reports such as accounts receivable and accounts payable to keep management informed. Prepare payroll. Prepare work schedules according to budget and workloads. Support achievement of financial objectives. Implement and evaluate office staff

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Computer Support Specialist. To respond user inquiries in regards to software or hardware issues. Conduct computer diagnostics to resolve issues. Provide assistance and support using computer software or equipment, windows server, Microsoft exchange, Microsoft office 365, firewalls, routers and networking technologies. Install and perform repairs to software and hardware following installations specifications. Prepare evaluations of software to recommend improvements and/or upgrades. Req. High School Diploma and 24 months experience. Send resume to ray@diriga.com or to Diriga Technologies, Inc. at 821 Herndon Av., ste 140271, Orlando, FL, 32803.

ENGINEERING: Component Design Engineer III for Siemens Energy, Inc. (Orlando FL) Eng w/ prfrnc for adv eng dgr & expd

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Approx 95% dmstc/intrntnl trvl reqd. Avail for on-call serv 24/7. Mst be able to pass bth reqd bckgrnd chcks & reqd drug & alchl tstg. *Emplyr wl acpt 2 yrs of exp in lieu of a Bach dgr. As fed cntrctr, Siemens Enrgy cntn to mntr fed & stte lgl gdlns re COVID-19 vccne mndte. Siemens Enrgy is pausng mndtry vccne plcy whle addrssd bycourts. SEI wll mntr the stuatn clsly & may reimplmnt its plcy if req to cmply w/ fed law. Should vccne plcy be reimplmntd, this pstn req ees to be flly vccntd agnst COVID-19 unlss grntd a med or relgious accmmdtn. Mail rsms Michael Kellermann, Siemens Energy, Inc., 4400 N Alafaya Trail, Orlando, FL 32826. Ref MK/JED. Must be authrzed

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