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Though the incident happened in Jamaica, they are suing in Florida court. The family is suing Sandals, its U.S.-based marketing company, and various hot tub part manufacturers for negligence, infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment and product liability, reports Courthouse News Service. A lawsuit filed by the family of John Van Hoy Jr. claims that the man was killed in an incident that can only be described as the Sandals whirlpool death--he drowned after being sucked into a hot tub drain at the Sandals Royal Bahamian Resort in Nassau, Jamaica. According to the lawsuit, John Van Hoy Jr., 33, was taking a dip in the resort spa when he decided to submerge himself under the water. He somehow became caught in a suction drain and was unable to release himself. His fiancee attempted to save him, but when she yelled for help, she alleges that Sandals employees walked away. What's interesting about this Sandals whirlpool death lawsuit is that the family of John Van Hoy Jr. filed suit in a U.S. court as opposed to in Jamaica. Contrary to common sense, because all of the defendants are either American companies or do business in the country, they can be sued in Florida court. This, however, does not mean that the Miami court will entertain the lawsuit or even apply Florida law. The judge can decide that Miami is not the proper venue for the lawsuit, or that the applicable law is that of Jamaica since that was the location of the Sandals whirlpool death. Because of these possibilities, expect the family of John Van Hoy Jr. and their Sandals whirlpool spa lawsuit to be held up by the defendants challenging jurisdiction. Related Resources:

PHILADELPHIA, PA - SEPTEMBER 20: Quarterback Tony Romo #9 of the Dallas Cowboys is sacked by Cedric Thornton #72 of the Philadelphia Eagles during the second quarter of a football game at Lincoln Financial Field on September 20, 2015 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Rich Schultz /Getty Images) New Cowboy Cedric Thornton recently compared what it's like to be a Cowboy to his time as an Eagle. "A lot more aggressiveness, a lot more impact in our walkthroughs, and they expect us to be in better condition than we were in Philadelphia," Thornton told SportsDay writer Jon Machota. Thornton also said Dallas head coach Jason Garrett and his staff have higher expectations going into OTAs and training camp than the Eagles staff had. "It's definitely different in that aspect as far as Philadelphia, but I like it," Thornton said. "I love it." Thornton signed a four-year deal with the Cowboys this off-season and had head coach Jason Garrett excited about his addition to the Dallas defense. Both national and Philly media outlets praised Thornton and his addition by the Cowboys, especially at an extremely reasonable $18 million over the life of the contract.

Full Sighting Description Use a word processor to carefully compose and spell check your report, then copy and paste it into this box. Enter as much detail as you can - such as descriptions of the object(s) seen, what they did, how many of them were observed, and what shape and color they were. A description of the backgrounds of the observer(s) is useful as well. Do not enter any names or contact info in this box! Summary Description Enter a short summary that gives the critical details of your report (one sentence only) . Click here to see examples of how this summary will appear when your report is listed on the web. Characteristics of Object (Check all that apply) : There were lights on the object The object left a trail There was an aura or haze around the object The object emitted other objects The object emitted beams The object changed color The object landed The object made a sound There were aircraft in the vicinity, or aircraft chasing the object There were electrical or magnetic effects, such as a car engine stopping Close Encounter (Check all that apply) : This is a possible UFO abduction case Entities were seen Missing time was experienced Marks found on body afterwards Animals responded to the event

After leading the Red Sox to a World Series title in 2013 but misfiring on most free agent and trade decisions since then, Ben Cherington is out as general manager. Last night, the Sox announced the hiring of Dave Dombrowski, the former Detroit Tigers general manager who was let go to pursue other opportunities earlier this month, as the new president of baseball operations. Dombrowski will assume responsibility for “all baseball operations matters effective immediately” and will report directly to Red Sox principal owner John Henry and chairman Tom Werner. In a written press release, the Sox said that Cherington “declined the opportunity to continue as general manager, but has agreed to assist Mr. Dombrowski during the transition.” To have come back with Dombrowski having all the power would’ve left Cherington in an awkward position. A press conference will be held at 2 p.m. today to introduce Dombrowski. Cherington could not be reached for comment last night. The move may come as a surprise, especially since the Red Sox have been adamant that Cherington would be their general manager “for a very long time,” as Henry said on June 2. “There are adjustments we need to make as an organization. Ben will make those adjustments, and he’ll lead that process. I think he and his people are the right people to do that.” Cherington took over as GM of the Red Sox in 2011 when Theo Epstein left to join the Cubs front office. In his first season as GM, Cherington hired Bobby Valentine as manager and watched the Sox win just 69 games. But he pulled all the right strings prior to the 2013 season, adding John Farrell as manager while signing free agents Koji Uehara, David Ross, Jonny Gomes, Mike Napoli and Shane Victorino, among others, as the Sox won 97 games on their way to a World Series title. In 2014, Cherington appeared to lose his touch. Signing A.J. Pierzynski as the catcher was a giant mistake, and the mid-season addition of Stephen Drew may have stunted Xander Bogaerts’ development. Cherington was forced to trade almost 25 percent of the active roster by the July 31 deadline, an opportunity for the Sox to add immense talent to their farm system. But almost all of his trade deadline moves, with the exception of acquiring Eduardo Rodriguez for reliever Andrew Miller, have looked like failures. Jon Lester did not re-sign after he was traded last year for Yoenis Cespedes, who was eventually flipped for Rick Porcello. Porcello was signed to a four-year, $82.5 million extension on Opening Day and owns a 5.81 ERA. Trading John Lackey for Allen Craig and Joe Kelly has looked like one of the worst trades in recent Red Sox history. Cherington then built the worst starting rotation in the American League and committed $183 million to Pablo Sandoval and Hanley Ramirez. However, Cherington can’t be knocked for his ability to assemble a top-ranked farm system. “The Red Sox baseball operations group and Ben Cherington deserve extraordinary credit for the young, talented players that have broken through at the major league level, and I see outstanding potential in the talent still developing in our minor leagues,” Dombrowski said in a statement. “I am anxious to get to Boston and to focus on playing an important role in helping this great franchise continue its recent history of world championships.” In Dombrowski, the Red Sox will turn to a proven leader in the industry when it comes to finding talent. “Although I did have other potential options within baseball, there was no option that stood out as clearly as the chance to come to Boston and win with the Red Sox,” Dombrowski said in a statement. “Boston is a baseball city like no other and its history and traditions are unique in our game. I expressed to John and Tom that Boston would be my absolute top choice and am honored to have the chance to serve Red Sox Nation.” Dombrowski took the Tigers from consistent losers when he was hired in 2001 to consistent winners, leading them to World Series appearances in 2006 and 2012. They made the ALCS in 2013, when they lost in dramatic fashion to the Red Sox, and have won the last four AL Central titles. Dombrowski was named the Montreal Expos GM in 1988 at the age of 32, then left for the Florida Marlins in 1992 and helped them win a World Series in 1997. He also has a close relationship with Henry, who owned the Marlins in the late 90s until he bought the Red Sox with Werner in 2002. “I have known Dave very well for a long time,” Henry said in a statement. “Tom and I have no doubts that Dave is the right person to strengthen our baseball operations group going forward.”

Spread the love Cryptocurrency user Jordan Spencer recently received a letter from his bank warning him that his account would be closed if he continued to buy and sell cryptocurrency through the popular website and app Coinbase. The bank, Lakestone Bank and Trust also ominously threatened to keep an eye on his account to make sure that he obeyed. Spencer posted the letter in a Facebook group for Ethereum traders to warn others about possible penalties or sanctions from banks. The letter stated that: “We are happy to have you as a Lakestone Bank and Trust customer and would like to fulfill your banking needs, but it has come to my attention that you are making purchases and receiving funds from Coinbase.com – A type of business transaction that is against Lakestone’s policies and will need to be discontinued immediately. We will continue to monitor your account and if we see that these types of transactions continue we will be forced to take other action, up to and including closing the account.” The post quickly went viral and created an uproar among cryptocurrency enthusiasts, who quickly spammed the bank’s Facebook page with negative reviews and comments. Cryptocurrency is obviously a threat to the traditional financial system, with a market cap of over $600 billion and rising every day, which far exceeds that of most major banks. It was reported this week that daily cryptocurrency markets are now doing the same volume as the New York Stock Exchange. Last week, the SEC issued a statement warning investors about cryptocurrencies not being regulated by governments. The statement is interesting considering that the SEC has allowed, if not assisted, in the many financial scams that have left so many people destitute. “Speaking broadly, cryptocurrencies purport to be items of inherent value (similar, for instance, to cash or gold) that are designed to enable purchases, sales, and other financial transactions. They are intended to provide many of the same functions as long-established currencies such as the U.S. dollar, euro or Japanese yen but do not have the backing of a government or other body. Other often-touted features of cryptocurrencies include personal anonymity and the absence of government regulation or oversight. Critics of cryptocurrencies note that these features may facilitate illicit trading and financial transactions and that some of the purported beneficial features may not prove to be available in practice,” the statement said. Many cryptocurrency traders are fearing that more restrictions and regulations from governments are likely on their way. If these sort of crackdowns from banks aren’t resisted by customers, we can expect them to increase. The centralization of power and control of currency is what gives the banking elite their power—cryptocurrency is a threat to that power as its very nature is based on decentralization. As we reported earlier this week, the idea of cryptocurrency has actually been popular among crypto-anarchists and privacy experts for decades, and was predicted in Timothy May’s 1994 manifesto “The Cyphernomicon.” In the book, May prophesized about “sophisticated financial alternatives to the dollar, various instruments, futures, forward contracts, etc.” Cryptocurrency is providing this financial alternative. Banks can either respect the wants and needs of their customers through facilitating a mutually beneficial relationship with those who wish to deal in both US dollars and crypto—or, they can die a slow economic death as cryptocurrency makes them obsolete. Lakestone Bank and Trust appears to have made their decision.

When submitting iOS apps to the App Store with Bitcode enabled, your app gets recompiled by Apple, to be optimized for specific devices and architectures. While Bitcode is optional, it’s more and more encouraged by Apple, and even required for watchOS and tvOS apps. Due to the fact that recompiling happens on Apple’s servers, third party crash reporters don’t have access to the symbolication files, which are required to properly associate the crash stack trace with the exact files and line numbers in your source code. The current solution to solve this for Bitcode enabled apps is to manually download the dSYM files from Apple and upload them to your crash reporting service. Downloading the files can be done either using Xcode or iTunes Connect. Download dSYM symbolication files using the Xcode Organizer Download dSYM symbolication files from iTunes Connect The problem with this approach is not only the time you spend doing this manually for every single release, but also the lack of automation. There was no way to automatically do this process after every release, or just periodically on every day, so you end up spending a lot of engineering time on repetitive tasks. Introducing automatic fastlane dSYM download With the latest version of fastlane, you can now easily download all available dSYM symbolication files from iTunes Connect and upload them straight to the crash reporting service of your choice. lane :refresh_dsyms do download_dsyms # Download dSYM files from iTC upload_symbols_to_crashlytics # Upload them to Crashlytics clean_build_artifacts # Delete the local dSYM files end All you have to do is define a lane (as seen above) and run: fastlane refresh_dsyms It’s easy to just run this task on your existing CI infrastructure every day or so, however you’re totally free to trigger it whenever and wherever you want. dSYM download in action You can find more information about the available options in the fastlane docs. Currently the dSYM upload is supported by Crashlytics, Sentry and HockeyApp. If your service is still missing and they provide an API, feel free to submit a PR to add it to fastlane. Open Source As always, everything described in this article is completely open source under the MIT license, check out the following source files: download_dsym.rb action (takes care of actually downloading the zip file from iTunes Connect) Access to build details, including dSYM files (spaceship code to receive the dSYM download URLs) upload_symbols_to_crashlytics (Upload the dSYM files to Crashlytics) upload_symbols_to_sentry (Upload the dSYM files to Sentry) hockey (Upload ipa and dSYM files to Hockey) Getting started If you’re already using fastlane, just update your existing Fastfile and add the new refresh_dsyms lane to it. Step 1: Install fastlane If you haven’t yet had the change to try fastlane, now is the perfect time. To quickly get started: [sudo] gem install fastlane --verbose cd your/project mkdir fastlane && touch fastlane/Fastfile fastlane/Appfile Edit your Appfile to include your bundle identifier and iTunes Connect Apple ID. Update your Fastfile to include the refresh_dsyms lane (seen above). You’re all set, now you can run Step 4: Enjoy fastlane fastlane refresh_dsyms On the first run you’ll be asked for your password, which will be stored in your local Keychain. You wonder what else you can add to your Fastfile ? Check out the available actions to see all 170 built-in fastlane integrations, you can already use today.