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White woman finally charged in fatal shooting of Black mom following confrontation with children
June 07, 2023
A Florida woman was arrested a week after fatally shooting her Black neighbor as part of a lengthy feud.
Susan Louise Lorincz was arrested on charges of manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery and two counts of assault nearly a week after shooting Ajike Owens, a mother of four children, through her front door, and authorities had faced criticism for the delay, reported the Associated Press.
“If we are going to make a case we need as much time and as much evidence as possible,” said state attorney William Gladson, the chief prosecutor. “I don’t want to compromise any criminal investigation and I’m not going to do that.”
The 58-year-old Lorincz, who is white, claimed she acted in self-defense and said that Owens was trying to break down her door prior to the shooting, but investigators determined from the evidence and by interviewing eyewitnesses that her actions were not justifiable under Florida's "stand your ground" law.
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"[It was] simply a killing," said Marion County sheriff Billy Woods.
Lorincz had yelled at Owens' children prior to the shooting while they played in a nearby lot and then threw a pair of skates that hit one of the children, according to the sheriff, who has not yet confirmed claims by civil rights attorney that she had used racial slurs during the incident.
“She was angry all the time that the children were playing out there,” said neighbor Lauren Smith, who is white. “She would say nasty things to them -- just nasty.”
Deputies arrived after responding to a trespassing call at Lorincz’s apartment and found the 40-year-old Owens suffering from a gunshot wound, and she died later at a hospital.
“They shot my mama, they shot my mama," one of Owens' young sons said, according to Smith.
The sheriff said deputies had responded to at least a half-dozen calls related to a feud between Lorincz and Owens.
“There was a lot of aggressiveness from both of them, back and forth,” the sheriff said Lorincz had told investigators. “Whether it be banging on the doors, banging on the walls and threats being made, and then at that moment is when Ms. Owens was shot through the door.”
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Spain's elBulli, repeatedly voted the world's best restaurant before it closed over a decade ago, is set to reopen as a museum dedicated to the culinary revolution it sparked.
Nestled in an isolated cove on Spain's northeastern tip, the museum is dubbed "elBulli1846" -- a reference to the 1,846 dishes ground-breaking chef Ferran Adria says were developed at the eatery.
"It's not about coming here to eat, but to understand what happened in elBulli," the 61-year-old told AFP near the kitchen of the restaurant he ran for over two decades.
The museum will open on June 15, nearly 12 years after the restaurant served its final dish to the public.
Visitors will be able to see hundreds of photos, notebooks, trophies and models made of plastic or wax that emulate some of the innovative dishes which were served at the eatery.
Adria pioneered the culinary trend known as molecular gastronomy, which deconstructs ingredients and recombines them in unexpected ways.
The results are foods with surprising combinations and textures, such as fruit foams, gazpacho popsicles and caramelized quails.
Under Adria's watch elBulli achieved the coveted Michelin three-star status and was rated the world's best restaurant a record five times by British magazine The Restaurant.
"What we did here was find the limits of what can be done in a gastronomic experience," Adria said.
"What are the physical, mental and even spiritual limits that humans have. And that search paved paths for others."
'Passion for cuisine'
Some of the world's most famous chefs were trained by Adria at elBulli, including Denmark's Rene Redzepi of Noma and Italy's Massimo Bottura of Osteria Francescana.
A foundation set up to maintain elBulli's legacy invested 11 million euros ($11.8 million) in the museum.
Plans to expand the building on the idyllic Cala Montjoi cove near the towns of Roses had to be adjusted after they ran into opposition form environmentalists.
Adria headed to the white-walled restaurant overlooking the Mediterranean in 1983 for a one month internship on the recommendation of a friend.
He was invited to join the restaurant's staff as a line cook the following year, and became its solo head chef in 1987.
Adria bought the restaurant in 1990 with his business partner Juli Soler, who passed away in 2015.
"The most important thing that happened to me at elBulli is that I discovered for the first time passion for cuisine," he said.
"At the table, when the staff ate together, we did not talk about football, or our weekends, we talked about cuisine."
'Right to close'
The restaurant opened usually just six months of the year to give Adria and his staff time to conceive new dishes.
The meal consisted of a set menu comprising dozens of small dishes which cost around 325 euros, including a drink, when the restaurant closed in 2011.
A team of 70 people prepared the meals for the 50 guests who managed to get a reservation.
Adria said he accepted that his culinary innovations did not please everyone.
"In the end they are new things and it's a shock after the other, it is normal that it makes you reflect on what you like," he said.
In the final years of the restaurant, demand for reservations was so high that Adria allocated seats mostly through a lottery.
When Adria decided to close the restaurant, he justified the move saying it "had become a monster".
"I was very certain that we were right to close. We had reached what we felt was a satisfactory experience at the maximum level," Adria told AFP.
"And once we reached it we said 'why do we have to continue?'. The mission of elBulli was not this, it was finding the limits," he added.
© 2023 AFP
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Pope Francis, who will undergo surgery for an abdominal hernia, admitted last year he needed to slow down faced with his age -- now 86 -- and increasing health issues.
Here are some of the medical problems the pontiff has had during his life, from an operation in his youth to remove part of a lung, to the knee issues that have forced him to use a wheelchair.
Lung operation
When he was 21, the then Jorge Bergoglio almost died after developing pleurisy, an inflammation of the tissues that surround the lung.
According to biographer Austen Ivereigh, surgeons removed three pulmonary cysts and a small part of his upper right lung in an operation followed by a long and painful recovery.
In an interview about his health with Argentinian journalist and doctor, Nelson Castro, he insisted however that he had made "a complete recovery... and never felt any limitation since then".
Respiratory infection
The pope was admitted to hospital in April 2023 suffering breathing difficulties. It turned out to be a respiratory infection, which was treated with antibiotics.
Sciatica and acupuncture
The pope has complained in the past of a "troublesome guest", sciatica, a chronic nerve condition that causes back, hip and leg pain that has occasionally forced him to cancel official events.
He has a distinctive limp -- he has described it as "walking like a broody chicken" -- but this is caused by a flat foot, Francis told Castro for his book "The Health of Popes".
As archbishop of Buenos Aires, he was treated by a Chinese acupuncturist for his back pain, Ivereigh wrote in The Tablet Catholic weekly in 2021.
Around the end of 1979, early 1980, he also suffered "an almost fatal" infection of the gallbladder and had a "brief" issue with his heart in 2004 after a slight narrowing of an artery, the biographer said.
Problems with a "fatty liver" were overcome through changes to his diet.
Bach and therapy
Francis, who was head of the Jesuit order in the 1970s during Argentina's brutal military dictatorship, has also previously sought mental health support.
He spoke with "a great woman psychologist" once a week for six months during the dictatorship, he told Castro, to help him with anxiety.
Nowadays he deals with it by listening to Bach or sipping "mate", a popular Argentinean herbal drink.
The pontiff is reported to go to bed at 9:00 pm and read for an hour before going to sleep for six hours and waking at 4:00 am every day. Lunch is invariably followed by a 45-minute nap.
Colon operation
In July 2021, Francis spent 10 days in hospital after undergoing surgery to address symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon.
The condition causes potentially painful inflammation of the diverticulum, a pocket that can form on the colon walls and which tend to multiply with age.
Patients with diverticulitis may experience lower abdominal pain, fever or rectal bleeding.
Francis underwent a left hemicolectomy, in which the descending colon -- the part attached to the rectum -- is removed.
He said a year later that he was still feeling the effects of six hours spent under anaesthetic during the operation.
In an interview in January this year, he said the diverticulitis had returned.
He has also visibly put on weight over the past year.
Honesty
Francis has repeatedly said he would consider stepping down if his health required it.
His predecessor Benedict XVI shocked the world in 2013 by becoming the first pope since the Middle Ages to resign, citing his declining physical and mental health.
Ivereigh has noted "how freely and transparently Francis discusses his various conditions, physical and psychological".
"How far we are from the Vatican refusing to confirm the Parkinson's everyone could see in the face of John Paul II," he wrote in The Tablet.
In August 2022, the pope named Massimiliano Strappetti, a Vatican nurse, as his personal healthcare assistant.
© 2023 AFP
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