So my girlfriend is with a local bank (IN) and someone in California has been able to put her now former card into their Lyft account. She disputed hundreds of dollars of charges and canceled her old card. We assumed this is where this would end.
Since receiving her new card, she has had her phone removed from the “trusted” status and she can no longer access her application. Assumedly, this person is off spending hundreds of her hard earned money. Please help answer the following 2 questions so we know what to do:

1. Should we contact local police and try to get them to start an investigation or have them reach out to CA police to start one?
   
2. How much information of hers do they likely have if they can log into her bank account and make her cell phone no longer “trusted.”
   

Thank you for listening and I hope to hear from someone soon!

Hey all. I have a 16-17 year old female cat that was urinating outside of her litter box for about a week so I got her into the vet. The first visit, they did a full panel of bloodwork and urinalysis. The results of concern are as follows:
SDMA - 19 (High) BUN - 51 (High) Creatinine - 1.3 (normal) Phosphorus - 5.6 (normal) Total T4 - 6.4 (High - were given hyperthyroid diagnosis)
Urine SG - 1.015 (low) WBC - 30-50/HPF (high) Bacteria - Moderate
After these results came back, the vet basically said they want/need to correct the UTI before any treatment plan is established so I took her in for a Convenia shot and we waited 2 weeks. I took her back in for another urinalysis and bloodwork, and her results are as follows:
SDMA - 18 BUN - 59 Creatinine - 1.5 Phosphorus - 4.9
Urine SG - 1.013 WBC - 10-15/HPF RBC - 15-20/HPF Bacteria - None Seen Amorphous Urates and non-crystalline debris present
After talking with my vet on the phone today, they say that they want me to bring her back to collect/do a Urine Culture to see if any bacteria was missed since there are ‘inflammatory cells’ in her urine. They said they want to see if that’s the reason her SDMA and BUN are high.
I do have experience in human medicine, and to me it seems strange to do a urine culture with these results. I assume the blood in her urine is from the collection method given that there were no RBCs in her urine at the first collection. I asked why they would want another collection for culture after having no bacteria, and they told me it was because her Urine SG was low so the urine was likely diluted and the bacteria could have been missed by the lab.
If the infection was bad enough to cause her SDMA and BUN to be consistently elevated and show no improvement, wouldn’t there still be considerable bacteria and more WBCs in her urine to the point where it wouldn’t be just missed? If it was the infection causing elevated values, would they have improved at least to a small degree along with the bacteria and WBC results? Isn’t consistent low Urine SG alongside these other results indicative of CKD? During my phone call, they never mentioned CKD and only suggested that this was a lingering infection that they need to get to the bottom of.
I was frustrated and called back and asked if this could be CKD, and they said yeah it could but we need to rule out the infection as the reason for her SDMA and BUN for being high. I asked if I should start new food for CKD and they said yeah that’s probably not a bad idea. I’m just confused as to what point they would accept the urinalysis results and blame CKD for the low urine SG rather than dilution from increased water intake.
Why am I prodding for diagnosis and treatment on this? Am I being unreasonable? This is a big financial strain on me for them to refuse to diagnose from these results and insist on me coming back weekly for more testing and making me spend $200-300 per visit, while not even mentioning CKD until I brought it up. They still haven’t given me the option/guidance on starting thyroid treatment as they said to just wait until the urine infection is squared away.
Any advice? Are they doing the right thing? Should I find a new vet? Am I just overwhelmed by facing a diagnosis and getting frustrated?
Thanks in advance!

I’ve been following this case pretty closely for almost a year now, but I haven’t had time to really watch the trial live (how are some of you watching every minute?!). I was looking for a post that was basically a run-down of the highlights and important revelations so far, but I haven’t really seen any, so I wrote one myself based on what I have been able to discern from the press coverage. Will you all tell me if I’m missing anything? I’m also gonna add some of my own analysis for discussion.
The “I hit him” testimony
A lot of people heard Karen say some version of “I hit him,” or “did I hit him?”, but the defense is doing a good job poking holes in their testimonies. It seems like a number of the people who claim she said “l hit him,” only recorded this several months later. Officer Saraf, for instance, only added the fact that KR said “I hit him” to his testimony several months later. Katie McLaughlin also agreed that her story had “evolved” since the original event. That particular witness was also interesting because she initially claimed to have no relationship with Caitlin Albert, which was later proven to be untrue; Katie McLaughlin was, as photos showed, quite close with Caitlin Albert at one point, which prompted the defense to acccuse McLaughin of perjuring herself. Firefighter Anthony Flematti also claimed Karen Read said “I hit him” but apparently never told anyone this, which was readily highlighted by the defense.
Of the people who testified that Karen Read said she hit O’Keefe, the only person who didn’t get absolutely obliterated by the defense seems to be Timothy Nuttall, although the defense made it clear that his memory of the day was pretty faulty as well.Lots of people heard her say different things: Stephen Mulanney testified that he heard her saying “Is he dead,” “that’s my boyfriend;” Jason Becker testified that he heard Read say “did i hit him?” And Matthew Kelly even said he explicitly did not hear Read say “I hit him” repeatedly.
Honestly, I’m not sure it matters whether or not Karen Read said “I hit him,” or “did I hit him?” It’s clear that she was worried about her own responsibility in the matter, which seems…. Not great but possibly innocuous? She was obviously insanely drunk the night before, and hangxiety/hangover guilt is famously a terrible combination with tragedy. I know I tend to assume the worst when I wake up after a night of heavy drinking. Even when I haven’t been drinking, I tend to blame myself when things go wrong. And I think it’s kind of telling that It doesn’t seem like any of these witnesses really thought that she had a clear, certain memory of hitting him. Except, that is, the officer in the McLaughlin testimony, who I guess summoned a sergeant when he heard her say this.
Anyway, most of this is stuff we already knew. We already knew she expressed that she felt guilty at the scene, and we already knew
The Sloppy Crime Scene & Responding Police Officers
Responding officers were super, uhh, carless when it came to the crime scene. They used solo cups to store the frozen blood found at the scene, which eventually led the blood to dry up. And they used a leaf blower to scan the scene for evidence, which somehow didn’t turn up any broken tail light. Basically, this testimony showed us that it was a super haphazard crime scene that could easily have been tampered with, and that there just wasn’t much care put into the storage and collection of evidence. This is important, because it sets the stage for the defense to say that forensic evidence from the scene cannot be trusted. Paul Gallagher admitted that “nothign about the scene was standard” and that he had never processed a crime scene in the snow before, which led them to improvise in a number of ways.
The other thing we got from these officer- witnesses was that Michael Lank, the canton police lieutenant who responded to the scene, had once been in a physical altercation in order to defend Chris Albert. For the defense, this is relevant because it shows not just the deep ties, but also the extent to which this group of people will go to cover up for their own. And the fact that this tight-knit circle are brutish and violent.
The Bartender
The testimony from the Waterfall bartender appeared to be marginally important. She confirmed that the Alberts were important, powerful people in the town, and that everyone knew who they were. She also said that nobody in the party appeared to be intoxicated.
Brian Albert getting rid of his phone
Brian Albert’s testimony basically just stuck to the party line. The phone thing, though, did remind me of how nuts it is that he got rid of his phone, and I’m assuming it’s not the last we’ll hear of it. I guess we already knew that he got rid of his phone right as it was supposed to be subpoenae’d, but it was still kind of crazy to hear him try to explain away that he got rid of it a single day before he received the order. He basically claimed that he was due for an upgrade so he traded it in. But he and Higgins both happened to destroy their phones right before they were subpoenae’d, which isn’t not suspicious.
Julie Nagel and the Black Blob
Julie Nagel, friend of 23y/o Brian Albert Jr, was inside the house that night. She testified that “I did notice ... something out of the ordinary, like a black blob in the ground by the flagpole,” as she was leaving. The defense didn’t like this, because it refutes the idea that JO was only placed on the lawn later. And they cast doubt on this testimony during the cross examination by pointing out that if she actually saw a body, she would have responded really differently. They also pointed out that she never really mentioned this until now.
The Ryan Nagel & co testimony
Ryan Nagel is Julie Nagel’s brother, who came to pick up his sister right around the time that Karen Read arrived, and left right as she was leaving. He never actually picked up his sister, because she ultimately wanted to stay.
Basically, he and the other people in his car said they saw Karen Read arrive at 34 fairview road. His sister came out to talk, at which point he was focused on his sister. He said he did not observe anyone enter the house, but the cross-examination made clear that this could have happened while he was talking to his sister. When he looked up, he saw the SUV brake lights come on, as if to start driving away. As he pulled up and drove past this car, he saw someone that fit Karen Read’s description in the driver’s seat, alone. He did not observe any damage to the vehicle.
This testimony is important, because this witness saw KR arriving and being alone in her car, which means JO would have left the vehicle at that point. It seems like it could be good for the defense, because he’s saying that she was alone in her car, and that he didn’t see JO outside, which could mean that he was inside. He also said her car didn’t have any visible damage. And it seems like he was a decently observant witness. But it also could just mean that JO’s exit from the vehicle was as unremarkable as his death, which would explain why nobody saw him.
Allison McCabe
Jen McCabe’s daughter, who claims she picked up Colin Albert that night. She testified that she arrived to pick him up at 12:10 or so, and she shows a screenshot of text messages to prove it. The Free Karen Read crowd thinks these are doctored, and I admit the screenshot looks really weird. There are some rumors floating around somewhere that there’s cell phone data that proves he was in the house much later than that, but I haven’t seen it. I also think the hyper focus on Colin Albert is weird, because it seems to me like a million different people could have ben responsible for JO’s death.
The Veterinarian Specialist
Testified that no dog DNA was found on swabs of John O’Keefe, but they did find pig DNA. Jackson’s cross exam reminded the jury that the collection of evidence was highly improper. The vet did concede that the pig DNA could have come from a dog treat.
Thoughts?
I’m hearing a lot of people characterizing this as a bloodbath, but honestly I don’t feel like anything so far has been, like, a crazy bombshell for either side. I would imagine there will be some during the defense’s turn to call up witnesses. Apparently that’s when trials tend to get juicy.
I also don’t really understand why the defense is so obsessed with the Colin Albert story. It seems like it could be easily disproven and then their whole theory falls apart. If I were in charge of Karen Read’s defense, I’d lean into the possibility that there are a million ways John O’Keefe could have died that don’t involve Karen Read. Maybe he slipped on the ice, hit his head, cut himself on his broken glass while he was trying to get up, and crawled quietly to the middle of the lawn where he was too incapacitated to call for help. Maybe he passed out in the gutter and someone else hit him— it seems like a ton of drunk people were coming and going, after all. And hit and runs are super common! Or, if we are to believe that John O’Keefe and Brian Higgins had a common romantic interest in Karen Read, couldn’t Brian Higgins have been equally likely— and have more motive— to bludgeon John O’Keefe? Honestly all those guys seem like the type to get angry and end up in a bar fight.

I was mostly using it to watch TV and to mess around with music. I quit watching TV. I never needed it for my day job (did occasionally use it for side gigs but haven't had any of those in a while).
I never thought it'd be this easy to go without it, but in the age of cell phone being your all in one device, I really haven't had any issues.
This all started because my laptop broke. I keep telling myself I'm gonna buy a computer, but I just... don't know what to buy because I've been so fine without one.
Anybody else ever experienced this?

Stepdaughter has been involved in the Junior and Senior tag. Some kids recklessly drove in front of our house close to midnight last night. My stepdaughter happened to be outside supposedly walking the dog (even though she never does that willingly). Some boys run into our yard to tag her then get back in their car and drive off. My wife and I have now clue what’s going on. When we asked our stepdaughter, she lies saying she didn’t know who they were or what they were going. The neighbors ended up calling the police bc they heard screaming, plus the car squeal off, and were concerned. The police show up to our house and my stepdaughter tells the truth about the prank. I’m furious. My wife is delicate in her disciplining. Previously when I’ve made suggestions i.e. no phone or not allowing her to do something she really wants to do, she always makes an excuse to not punish her. I have stopped giving input. I decided to suspend her cell phone service since she lied about the incident and caused such a scene. I didn’t tell my wife. My wife is now furious with me for suspending the phone line TLDR: teenage prank caused police to come to house at midnight, stepdaughter lied about knowing. I suspended my stepdaughters phone service as punishment, now the wife is furious with me

Man, Gill has me in stitches for the past 2 days.
I am laughing non-stop, replaying all the GME memes in my head at random moments... literally I cannot stop the "buckled-over-cry-laughing". And after everyone around me is sure I don't have a cell phone or bluetooth stuck on my ear, I am getting all kinds of "concerned" looks.
It's the gift that keeps on giving.
It only gets funnier too: Mon and Tues I was up about $47,000, and gave "air jacking-off" hand motion to it. Now I'm back to about half of that I suppose. Not even looking now, and that in itself is worth a few Joker laughs. Like I seriously don't care.
They've had the wrong people in poverty & wage-slavery too long.

I (26F) left my relationship (28M) 2 weeks ago with our two baby daughters. It was very abusive. I have been reborn (about a year ago) and since then it got even worse and I felt the oppression and I had to put an end to it. I have watched as my faith has transformed everything around me. I know my relationship was holding me back from becoming my full potential that God has planned for me so leaving isn't the issue. But, finances are, & I have been tempted to make easy money by being sexual over video. I left with no money, no job, no car, no cell phone, no help with my kids, nothing. The rent is paid this month and next month it is all on me. I have used all state/church assistance I could already because he has been in & out the last year. As of now I am getting help with food. But, I need to make things happen for myself and I'm completely stuck. I have not ever believed in sex work. But, today, I had a mental breakdown. My kids are healing from their own trauma so it's been day in day out super demanding all while I'm also healing and trying to do everything I can and I feel like nothing is getting done or better.
I searched on Google How to make money the same day as a webcam girl. I only know about this line of work due to ex's porn addiction ironically. I've never done anything like this and I do not partake in watching it either. And I read a few answers but I felt this feeling creep over me that made me want to jump out of my own skin. Chills up my spine and everything. I know that the darkness this brings is real because I've seen it first hand. I really almost puked. I can't believe how that all made me feel.
I know God will provide and I've been steadfast in that up until today when I broke down. I just need some extra prayers over here to keep me going and bring me back to a place of hope. I thank anyone who takes the time to read this or give advice or pray.

Okay, so my dad had bought me phone around a week or so ago and was going through the getting used to period. I hadnt even gotten to having it for a full week when my dad said, I need to see your phone, im taking it to Magenta Wireless ( all you Americans can figure out what cell provider that is) so i gave it to him expecting he'd do just that. as im writing this it has been three days since ive seen it. and ive also noticed that my dad gets weirdly defensive around the drivers car door of his car (which is where it is) and there have been many senarios where i would think "Damn, it would be eaiser to have a cell phone." so will i be the asshole for taking back whats mine?

Today I was pulled over by a St Martin parish deputy on Hwy 90 for what the officer claimed was an illegal license plate cover, which came from Hampton Toyota when I purchased the car in 2020. The license plate cover did not obstruct any text on the license plate itself.
After giving me a dubious explanation about the legality of my license plate cover, he asked me why I stuck the middle finger at him, which was false. I did not give him a vulgar gesture; I signaled my indignation when he nearly pulled out in front of me as he tried to merge into the left lane. I simply raised my arms at him in frustration when he nearly cut me off. And even if I had given him the bird, that's not illegal per a famous Supreme Court ruling.
So there's no doubt that I was pulled over because a dumbass cop erroneously believed that I gave him the bird. Then, to top things off: before letting me go, he took a picture of my drivers license with his cell phone.
Now I wish I had given that fucking pig the middle finger. I've never been pulled over and was so shaken that I didn't even get his badge number, so now I get to enjoy anxiety and regret for the rest of my evening.
ACAB

I have an uncle who has just been quite literally saving money under his mattress for 50 years. He has $70k+ just in sitting in shoe boxes. I know that showing up with more than $10k in cash at a time sets off alarm bells. But how can he start a savings or brokerage account with this amount of pure cash that he’s hoarded over years? He has no computer or internet or cell phone, so need to do this the old fashioned way. He’s not Amish or insane or anything, just an older guy who made his living in a super rural area as a logger. (For the record he actually wants to do something with it now, this is not just me asking a hypothetical question).

This week I've gotten 2 texts from the same number with verification codes that I didn't request. The first time was on Sunday, and I ignored it because I didn't ask for it. That same day I called my bank to change the pin number on my new account debit card, and they told me someone successfully changed it 4 hours earlier - when I got the text.
The text message comes in the same thread as I've received other legit verification codes, and they don't indicate where they are texting from, just that I requested the code and not to give it to anyone, employees won't even ask for it.
I got another one today so I'm starting to wonder if I'm being targeted/hacked. This is a brand new account at a brand new bank with a brand new card that I've never swiped anywhere. How could they successfully change my pin number when even the bank required me to do it at an ATM? I called the bank, they said the account is locked so no one can spend any of it, including me. I called my cell phone company and they are escalating it to their fraud department, but I'm not even confident that the person I spoke to understood what I was getting at.
Could my sim card be cloned? How could they change my pin when I didn't give anyone the verification code? Could someone have hacked my cell phone? A virus? I literally never used that card anywhere, didn't load it into Google wallet, nothing, so I'm just not sure what's going on here... Any advice is appreciated!

In 2019 I was working for a trucking company based out of Houston Texas. To keep it brief... The company was owned by a big time Pastor out of Houston. He hired a man who had multiple million dollar contracts, but he didn't have the trucks or the drivers to fill those contracts. The contract holder was also leasing a truck/trailer at the time, but pretending as though it was his own.
Company owner =FR
Truck owner=WC
Middle man=KT
KT is a long time conman/criminal out of the south. He was in and out of jail for several years when he decided to start truck driving. After a while however he needed more money. He wanted to run his own loads, but needed a truck/trailer. That's when he partnered with WC. WC owns multiple tractor trailer setups and he leases them to many individuals all over the country. He met KT and without prying too much into his past, he leased him a tractor trailer. WC would make a percentage of every load which kept him happy for around 8 months. That's around the time KT met FR at a party or some type of event. He was given an email for contact and in early 2019 he sent his first email to FR's company asking to become a partner, or to make a percentage for every contract he gave to FR, considering he didn't have the trucks or drivers to perform all the contracts he had. FR with dollar signs in his eyes agreed and made him a partner by April 2019.
The contract between them was officially made by FR's company Lawyer and signed in late September 2019. KT started using all of FR's company details, emails, business logos in all of his interactions from then on out. He had a problem however. He was still needing to make money to pay for his contract with WC. He would assign loads to WC's truck and find drivers through craigslist. After a few weeks to a few months of non payment however, all drivers would abandon the truck and he would have to find a new driver. Eventually that became me in October 2019.
I posted a craigslist ad looking for Repower work and KT's secretary emailed me the details. I received a phone call the next morning and I was off from Denver to pick up a loaded tractor trailer sitting in the Cheyenne WY Regional Airport parking lot. I was told the driver had a family emergency and the load was already late so I would be paid a handsome amount to deliver asap. I spent 9 days in the truck delivering 3 loads from Washington state, Boise Idaho, to Salt Lake City and then eventually going down to Gallup New Mexico to hit the I40 to drive the truck back to Houston, where I was told I would meet KT, get paid and be on a paid flight back to Denver. I was eager to get home.
On October 29th 2019 I was asleep in the back of the truck at the Pilot Travel Center in Gallup, New Mexico when I was awoken by a pounding on the passenger door. I was dressed in multiple layers as the truck had run out of fuel the day before. The Comdata Cards weren't working to put fuel in, and I was told it would be solved the following day. It was around 8 degrees outside. I was in a tshirt with my hoodie laying on me, and a pair of sweatpants under my blue jeans to keep warm. When I finally crawled to the front of the truck to open the door I was greeted by a Glock pointing at my head and told to slowly exit the truck keeping my hands up. I did as the Trooper commanded. After a brief search of the truck for damage (I had the key fob), and after showing the Bill of Ladings printed with my name and signature on them I was informed I was receiving a Felony for Possession of a Stolen Vehicle. After being "Frozen Out" to admit fault (I was ordered to stand in front of the Troopers cruiser for 2 hours in 8 degrees as he was trying to get me to admit to stealing the vehicle) I was then cuffed and brought back to the sub station for further questioning and filing. I was told everything from how stupid I was for taking the job after telling my side of the story, all the way to how I should've made my father (a 33 year retired officer) run the plate on the truck to check if it was reported stolen before getting in. Which doesn't make sense, when the truck was reported stolen THAT NIGHT.
WC was getting worried about his equipment not being insured by him, but by FR's company. He demanded his truck back on October 27th and was told by KT and FR they had NO KNOWLEDGE of any such truck. He reported it stolen the afternoon of the 29th and it was tracked by on star to my location where I was arrested. After being interrogated at the sub station and sitting handcuffed to a bench in a cell for 2 hours while the Trooper wrote his report (which just spoke about how he received a call, went directly to me, arrested me and had me in custody now.) I was then transported to McKinley Country Correctional Facility where I spent a hellish 42 hours locked in with 33 other inmates. The toilet system would backup and flood the cell soaking everyone laying on our mats with feces and urine. The food provided was absolute garbage not fit for any living person. A new inmate stole cuffs off an officer and showed everyone after a couple hours and threatened people. We also had an inmate come down from the pods (a convicted murderer there for another trial) after threatening to kill a known Ped upstairs. He was found strangling him and until they figured things out he was transported down to us. He laid down right behind me. I couldn't eat the food so I gave it to him having tupperware. He actually gave me my only phone call using his key code for the phone in the cell. My Dad told me they were bailing me out very shortly.
My bailbondsman arrived at 11pm Halloween night after taking his kids to get candy. I was taken to a motel room down the street. We stopped for my first real meal... taco bell. I was just happy to be out of there, but I ended up throwing up several time in my room and I couldn't sleep for a few days.
-Fast forward to December. My case was dismissed in pretrial.
-Fast forward to May 2020 the lawyer who took my case in Gallup in December to help me sue the State Troopers dropped me. You can see his bill boards EVERYWHERE in Gallup, NM.
-I found a new lawyer in Denver who believed me and started filing.
-We received correspondence from FR's lawyer saying he never met KT, has no knowledge of WC or the truck in question and to leave him alone.
-2 years later (FR is still saying he never knew anyone) in August 2022 we received partial discovery. FR's email. He was ordered to type in KT's name in the history bar and over 200 emails popped up. Everything from their contract created by FR's lawyer to emails such as...
"KT! You're a very very smart man. Now let's make you a VERY VERY RICH MAN!"
-Early 2023 WC settles with us and says he would be a witness for me in trial. The State Trooper received Qualified Immunity. KT still hasn't been found. FR offers a 10k settlement. We decide to go to trial.
-late 2023 we have another meeting in Houston, Tx to discuss a settlement at the court house. I am met by FR himself who was not supposed to be there. He's limping on a cane. Never made an apology. They up their settlement to 100k. I'm still wanting to go to trial, but the mediator who is the 2nd judge at the courthouse all but tells me I won't win a GD thing if I go, because of the "Good ole' boy" system in Houston. He said no matter how I feel about what happened, I'm a white veteran truck driver who got arrested... Nobody gives a sh*t and they are going to see to that.
-After 6 hours and being literally counted down by the mediator from 10 to 0 I accepted the offer.
-I started making Reno911 style Bodycam footage to help me get over things mentally. Some have received over a million views. I now live in Long Beach California.
-KT was and still has never been found. FR is still a pastor at a major church in Houston. I don't know anything about WC. The state trooper is in the news almost every other week for arresting DUI drivers in Gallup.
AMA

So I had a pretty good route yesterday until the verrrry end which seems to be the norm for me. Last 7 stops are in the boonies, gravel roads, trailers or modular homes and my cell service is struggling. Unfortunately I forgot about downloading the maps (and I’m not even sure how to do this in the flex app) but anyway, I’m at the penultimate stop and the guy comes out the porch before I have a chance to take a pic. So that was rookie mistake number one. But I didn’t realize after I’d clicked “I’ve parked” it said “are you in the delivery area?” I mean I’m right at the house but I ignore it and then give the package to the guy. I get back to my car thinking that I can simply advance to the next screen and say yes it’s within the delivery area. Nope! It said “the homeowner needs to acknowledge they have the package” or something special like that. No prompt this time of “were you able to leave it in a non-standard location” like I got with others.
It literally won’t let me advance. Then I see my bars are down to nothing, so I dumbly switch to airplane mode that I’ll be able to get out of this. Nope! The app freezes and it takes forever for cell service to come back on. I have to drive down the road a bit to get some bars back. By the time the flex app refreshes it thinks I haven’t delivered the package AT ALL. I decided to deliver the last package on the same road which goes fine! But the app goes “you still have one more left” the same damn package I already delivered 10 mins before. I go back to the house and sit there trying to move through the prompts but for some reason with this house, it doesn’t recognize it being in the area. I can’t get chat support to come up because no bars, again. It’s like a dead zone. I’m sitting there for 5 minutes struggling in front of this dude’s house until he and his dad or whoever both wander out to my car “can we help youuuuuu?” I didn’t feel threatened but I didn’t feel welcome either. I told them Amazon thinks I haven’t delivered and he said oh yeah we got it, you can tell them that lol.
I finally had to drive away and attempt to get support on the actual phone to help me but they couldn’t friggin hear me because again no cell service. They keep asking me to park and attempt to deliver. They sent me a security code to my phone to confirm who I was but I kept telling them ugh I can’t access text or email because no bars… I am yelling at them that “I already finished my route” but they still can’t hear me. They said “disconnecting the call in 3… 2… “ The app just cycled and I was ready to be done with my route early and now I’m actually in danger of being late even though all packages have been delivered.
This is the second time the app has crapped out on me, one time because my iPhone got too hot in the car and now this time because of no cell service. I clearly followed the airplane mode advice wrong when it comes to the app telling me I’m not in the delivery area even after I’ve successfully delivered a package.
Can someone walk me through what to do when this map issue happens and/or you have no cell service suddenly in the middle of nowhere? (Besides down loading the map although that wasn’t the issue finding the place it was the app recognizing that I did my job).
In the end after I started home on the highway all bars came back and I got chat support to come up and mark my route complete (and even that I had to do twice because when I checked the app after “refreshing” it it still said “you’re going to be done delivering early”!).

Enravel (Seattle)
Date of Incorporation: 9/14/2009
Governing Persons: Rony Abovitz (Governor); Scott Henry (Governor); Anastasia Lang; Richard Taylor; Jennifer Fitzpatrick; Joseph Tsai https://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/business.aspx?ubi=602954597
Enravel, which presented at the April Innovation Showcase, followed up the presentations with an update and product demo. The company, led by UW mechanical engineer Brian Schowengerdt [former UW & Microvision employee], has developed a laser-based “pico projector” that could be built into mobile electronics like cell phones, digital cameras, and even eye glasses. The 1 mm x 9 mm projector —about the size of a grain of rice—uses “scanning fiber” technology to then scan an image from the device, and project an enlarged image back onto a larger surface, like a wall. The company, which has put most of its resources into developing the projection technology so far, plans to now turn its focus to streamlining the light source modulator to improve image quality.
https://xconomy.com/seattle/2010/07/15/technology-alliance-showcases-four-new-companies-in-biotech-and-cleantech-and-revisits-one-past-presente2/
Linden Rhoads [at the time Vice Provost-IP, Commercialization, Innovation at the University of Washington] introduced this startup by pulling out her iPhone and iPad (yes, one of those) and talking about the devices’ display capabilities. “These are great, these are fun, but they’re going to be so much more fun when there are projectors available for them,” she said. “That day is very, very close at hand.”
Enravel is led by UW mechanical engineer Brian Schowengerdt, an expert in alternative displays, user interfaces, and human visual perception. He co-founded the company in 2009 to commercialize a laser-based “pico projector.” The idea, he says, is to “take a display of iPad size and compress it into the size of an iPhone.” More specifically, to shrink a projector to “the size of a grain of rice” and use it to project on-screen images, video, games, websites, e-mail—you name it—onto any larger surface.
The core technology is a “scanning fiber” projector that uses fiber optics and a vibrating element to scan an image and blow it up, for example, to a size of 17 inches across from just five inches away. A matchbook-size assembly of laser diodes (off the shelf) provides the light source to project the image. You could imagine such a projector might be crammed into a smartphone and used anytime you want a bigger display to interact with, for reading text or watching a video, say.
Enravel has five employees, and its technology was built over the past few years using $8 million in funding for a related endoscopic imaging project (led by Eric Seibel) and $100,000 in grants. The company expects to finish its portable prototype by next month, and to have a standalone product by the end of next year.
https://xconomy.com/seattle/2010/04/22/technology-alliance-showcases-five-companies-in-sensors-mobile-displays-and-drug-therapies-investors-take-notice/?single_page=true
Thanks to for mentioning Enravel
Jump to Q3 2019
UW Researcher Spotlight: Eric Seibel, Mechanical Engineering Written by CoMotion Staff / September 27, 2019
Eric Seibel: "Scanning Fiber Endoscope: This is an ultrathin and flexible scanning fiber endoscope (SFE) for the early detection and treatment of cancers within the body. The goal is to advance minimally invasive medical imaging by using ultrathin flexible endoscopes that allow access to regions of the body that were previously inaccessible to permit less invasive treatment of cancers before they have spread from their place of origin. It was licensed to startup VerAvanti for medical endoscopes and Magic Leap for AR displays as well as a few other related licenses."
https://comotion.uw.edu/comotion-spotlight-on-a-uw-researcher-eric-seibel/
August 26, 2019 - Veravanti announces a new subsidiary and the opening of a nanofabrication facility
"The opening of the Avanti Nanofabrication facility enables VerAvanti to manufacture its patented Scanning Fiber Endoscope (SFE), a new, extremely small imaging modality designed to access small arteries to illuminate stroke and cardiovascular risks."
https://veravanti.com/news/2019/8/26/veravanti-announces-a-new-subsidiary-and-the-opening-of-a-nanofabrication-facility
Some information on Veravanti in relation to Enravel:
Research: Large field-of-view short-wave infrared metalens for scanning fiber endoscopy Mirror 1 Mirror 2
Near-Infrared Imaging of Artificial Enamel Caries Lesions with a Scanning Fiber Endoscope
Other Scanning Fiber Endoscope Projects
Endoscope Surveilence
SFE For Dental Care
SFE For Bladder Surveillance
The scanning fiber endoscope is an ultrathin and flexible endoscope for the early detection and treatment of cancers within the body. The SFE can be used as a surveillance device with the goal of improving our chances of survival from cancer.
A scanning fiber endoscope is a technology that uses a flexible, small (< 6Fr) peripheral or coronary catheter to provide wide-field, high-quality, full-color, laser-based video imaging. These differences distinguish SFE applications from current imaging approaches such as IVUS and Intracoronary OCT. Applications for the device (which was pending FDA review and approval as of 2017[needs update]), are expected to include medical diagnosis and support in determining interventional treatments such as surgery or biopsy. Providing both full-color images and a wide-field, real-time surgical view into the inner depths of arteries, enables physicians to circumnavigate hard to reach internal tissues to assess for potential disease.
REDMOND, WA (August 26, 2019) – VerAvanti, a developer of a new class of scientifically-advanced solutions to help physicians find answers to treat strokes and heart attacks that often strike without warning, today announced that its new subsidiary, Avanti, has opened a Nanofabrication facility in Bothell, Washington. The facility includes a 9,300 S.F. ISO 9001 cleanroom, the second largest in Washington State.
The first-of-its-kind facility on the Eastside will support high-volume component production of wafers and chips with nanoscale features. Because of the inconceivably tiny parts made from unconventional materials, these components aren’t practical, economical or even possible to fabricate at commercial foundries. The lab capabilities include photolithography, wet and dry etch, atomic layer deposition, Sputtering, Deep Reactive Ion Etching, scanning electron microscopy, Multiphysics simulation, design, and proprietary piezoelectric fabrication. The Avanti Nanofabrication will provide services to VerAvanti and the other businesses seeking these specialized services.
VerAvanti Founder and CEO, Gerald McMorrow explained why VerAvanti launched its new nanofabrication subsidiary. McMorrow stated, “The opening of the Avanti Nanofabrication facility enables VerAvanti to manufacture its patented Scanning Fiber Endoscope (SFE), a new, extremely small imaging modality designed to access small arteries to illuminate stroke and cardiovascular risks.” With the price point advantages this subsidiary enables, VerAvanti is positioning for a highly competitive market launch of its innovative SFE device.
About VerAvanti
Founded in 2013, privately-held VerAvanti is using advanced science and automation to commercialize the world’s first Scanning Fiber Endoscope (SFE)), to help physicians close treatment gaps and proactively identify interventions for the 200,000 individuals (U.S.) who suffer ischemic strokes due to an unknown cause1. Protected by more than 30 patents licensed by VerAvanti, the SFE is a micro-imaging catheter equipped with an extreme depth of focus camera that provides physicians a previously unseen surgical view into hidden intravascular anatomy, enabling more proactive diagnosis and treatment of individuals at-risk for stroke and cardiovascular events. Visit VerAvanti to learn more and review scientific papers and SFE images.
About Avanti Nanofabrication
Avanti Nanofabrication, a subsidiary of VerAvanti, is a nanofabrication facility located in Bothell, WA. The facility includes a 9,300 S.F. ISO 9001 cleanroom, the second largest in Washington State. Lab capabilities include photolithography, wet and dry etch, atomic layer deposition, Sputtering, Deep Reactive Ion Etching, scanning electron microscopy, Multiphysics simulation, design, and proprietary piezoelectric fabrication.
DEVELOPMENTAL STATUS (VerAvanti)
2019:

• August - VerAvanti Announces a New Subsidiary and the Opening of a Nanofabrication Facility

2017:

• June - Awarded $286K NIH Research, Phase 1 Grant. entitled “Optical visualization to efficiently guide coronary intervention of chronic total occlusion”
• May - Awarded $300k NIH Research, Phase 1 Grant entitled “4-Channel Multimodal Ultrathin-Flexible SFE for cancer diagnosis and therapy”
• April – Established in-house MEMS production facility.

2016:

• SFE console design complete.
• Quality system certified to ISO 13485 by Notified Body (DEKRA).
• David Auth, PhD joined VerAvanti board of directors.
• Patent Issued: "Closed Loop Optical Feedback Synchronization System for Imaging Application" (9,258,108)

2015:

• Scale-ready infrastructure, implemented including quality systems, NetSuite ERP, CRM, an accounting system and other automated business processes
• Established Clinical Advisory Board.
• Began development of automated catheter production.
• Identified and retained sales executives for USA and Europe with known track records.

2014:

• Design Concept – Coronary / Peripheral Scanning Fiber Endoscope
• Established manufacturing clean-room environment that operates at Class ISO 8 levels.
• Established corporate offices and R&D center of excellence.

2013:

• VerAvanti Inc. founded.
• Acquired exclusive worldwide rights to license SFE technology, consisting of more than 20 patents.
• Hired core development and engineering staff.
• Established automated document control system.

Hi All,
First time Reddit poster inspired by stories found online to try and see if I could get a different perspective on current events going on in life right now (Sorry mods if it looks like I keep reposting, trying to figure reddit out). It's been super chaotic for the past few weeks, and I need to try and see if I could get any advice/guidance in my situation.
To give some background information to my current challenge, I (Male, Mid-20s) am a first-year Intern Special Education (Moderate-Severe) Teacher who is still getting his teaching credential. I knew the previous teacher who had the classroom beforehand as I was a paraprofessional for 2 years in the district prior, and the position was open for about a year before I applied and got the position, which was a fight in itself. I really enjoy the work, find it extremely rewarding, and despite many struggles throughout the year (University classes over an hour away, health concerns), I believe I have managed to create a successful school year for the most part. The biggest challenge is that I have 6 staff members (all female, 2 early 20s, 4 older than 40), where some of them have not been very supportive to my direction for the room.
I have a staff member (lets call her Diane, approximately 65), who I had a good relationship with before the academic year began, when we worked together for the previous year's extended school year program when I started. By the start of the next year is when things began to change. I had assigned Diane as a one-on-one aide for a student in a wheelchair as the IEP team convened on day 1 and granted this service to her. I assigned Diane to her initially since she had told me that she had an extension to her contract that went beyond the hours someone in the position typically is granted. Diane flat out refused, threatening to quit because the child had supposedly rolled over her feet on purpose in previous years (the child is very sweet in question, and I couldn't imagine them doing that). I convened with my Director of Special Education, as he is on the IEP team for the student, and we made a decision to assign the one-on-one aide to another aide of mine who really enjoys working with the student.
The year would go on with off and on incidents with students in this manner. Threats to quit, refusal to record IEP goal information, constantly on her cell phone. In my classroom, I have a side office where we have our printescanner, and has a couch. The office also has windows that can overlook the classrooms, but we have blankets hung up because I was told that students would get distracted and look through the windows at staff on breaks. I didn't think much of it, but thought it was reasonable enough not to take it down. On one day, I found Diane pulled out a pack of cigarettes from her bag in the office. Not seeing these from her before, I asked what she was doing with those, to which she waved the pack to me and stated "this is why we have blankets over the windows." Confused, I asked her if she could take them out at the present time, which she did, walking outside without me finishing my sentence. I was concerned because, even though I had never caught her smoking, her words troubled me. I went to the Vice Principle (VP) telling her what went on and how I couldn't have a conversation with Diane, and we found that (in the state of California), there's nothing that states employees can posses cigarettes on school grounds, just that they can't use them. VP asked if she wanted to talk to Diane, I declined saying that she technically didn't do anything wrong. Director came by after school and I told him as well about the incident. He told me that he would check around the District Office for any info. Fast forward to the next morning, I go to the office and VP stops me saying "What's going on with the cigarette thing??" I ask what she meant, and VP told me that she and the enacting Principal (current Principal is out due to having a baby), were going to talk to Diane about the cigarette incident. My Director must have told enacting Principal and they made a plan to address the incident with Diane. After that, Diane had been very hostile towards me: not acknowledging my instruction or having a conversation with me, taking other aides out of the classroom during instruction time when students need help, taking photographs of things I would write down, etc.
I began recording incidents in my work and personal email in February because I was inexperienced and didn't know any better (first year mistake). I would seek out help from my Director and Principal, and they each talked to her a couple of times individually, but behaviors didn't stop. In April, I finally had enough and decided to file a grievance with Human Resources. I filled out the paperwork, wrote up my deposition on the situation (how you tried addressing the behaviors, how administration addressed the situation, and the result of administration action - in short "no action" from 4 different administrators involved), and provided them with the emails to myself as a paper trail since February when things started ramping up.
Nine days later, I get a call from HR stating that they wanted to meet with me and to bring my union representative. I was thrilled because I thought it was to address my grievance I filed. I go in the next morning with my rep to the Superintendent of HR, and he slides me a paper while explaining that I am on Paid Administrative Leave concerning "allegations of inappropriate conduct," as a Child Protective Services report was filed on me. They take my badges and keys. I am floored, head racing, all the stereotypical stuff you would hear from a movie. HR wouldn't even say what the reasons were when my rep inquired at the time.
Fast forward to now, and we have been currently fighting it out, and my union secured an attorney to represent me in the matter. The attorney let me know of the allegations, and I know that they are false. Trying to pin me on some real creep stuff that I won't address here. It disgusts me to even think that that's what the allegations even are. The attorney and I had an initial hearing with HR confirming the allegations, who the student was, what I had supposedly done, etc. Since I participated in the hearing, my attorney let me know that we can now request the paperwork that was filed to CPS and know the identity of the reporting party as this is a requirement of mandated reporters in schools as the allegations were made during the school day and not before/after school. I know in my heart that this is a retaliation from Diane/other staff members who have been siding with Diane, and let HR know this feeling to investigate based on the grievance I filed before my dismissal. If somehow the reporter is someone else, than this is coercion that I think should be investigated.
My attorney/professors at university were letting me know about other things concerning my situation that I'm just worried on (keep in mind, this is California). The primary field is the argument in resignation, firing, and non-reelection. First, after taking advice from my attorney and listening to my heart, I am not resigning from my position. I know I have done nothing wrong in my position as a teacher based on the allegations that were brought up against me. My attorney had also advised me that if I had resigned, the CPS report would still be active. Sure, there's things that you would have to answer for in the future for interviews and all if you resign, but that would raise more red flags for you if you resigned since CPS would still be involved with you, and you would have to acquire a criminal defense attorney in the meantime (also, it's interesting to me that this whole event has gone on for about a month, and not one CPS or law enforcement official has ended up on my doorstep when, in reality, they have all the right to come up).
Second, is firing. The district could in all their rights terminate me for what is going on. My attorney doesn't think that this would happen as if they were to terminate me, I could file for an appeal (or legal cases for that matter) to the school board and open up a cross-examination investigation with key witnesses, character witnesses, the whole nine yards, all being lead up to a vote. This apparently is expensive to run, and seems unlikely to happen given how the school year is about to end.
Lastly, and what seems to be most likely to occur, is that the district will choose to non-reelect me. This apparently gives them an out to conducting the full investigation, it gives them an out to not open up an investigation for the grievance I filed (whose timeline expires a week after my last contract day for the year, leaving the grievance invalid), and allows the district to not give a reason to non-reelection according to my attorney. However, since nothing else has occurred to spur the non-reelection, I could file for a suit against the district on charges of retaliation and wrongful termination as some of the allegations are related to a specific physical disability concerning my health that I explained to HR and that they have a prior record of.
The last note that I have currently for the process is that if I am removed, it doesn't bode well for my credential status, which I haven't even technically earned yet. It will get flagged depending on the outcome of my dismissal, and doesn't look great to employers either. Add a defamation charge to the district?
I know that this is a lot to throw out into the sea, but I would like to see if I can get some help on this process that I am currently facing. I miss my kids and just want to just go back to my kids, but I don't know if that's even a possibility at the present time. If anyone has any helpful comments or advise to take, I would greatly appreciate it. It's disheartening to work so hard for something only to see it crumble before your eyes.
(Edit) TLDR: Brand new SPED teacher has had lots of conflict with aides in his classroom. Staff may have filed a CPS report on teacher, putting him on Paid Administrative Leave. Seeking help/understanding in what actions to take, and what to expect from other's experience.

Long story short: Give any elderly or otherwise vulnerable people in your life a heads up that there's another round of calls coming from predatory companies trying to lock people into fixed rate gas contracts that do not benefit them. They may make it sound like they work with Fortis and while what they are doing seems to be legal, it is not in your best interest to entertain them.
Long story/My experience
I was at my mother's place when she got a call from someone making it sound like they were from Fortis BC. She eventually gave me the phone because English isn't her first language and she was confused by something they said.
With all the spam we receive these days, I am so paranoid about scams and asked them to direct me to a website where I could learn more. They directed me to the Fortis website for the Customer Choice Program. They kept trying get me to fill out a form they had already sent my mother via a text message (they managed to get her cell number, and her Fortis Account Number out of her before she gave me the phone). I told them I wasn't going to do anything without looking into it online for myself and that we'd call them back if we were interested.
Took me 2 minutes to turn up a Reddit thread with an explanation of the scheme. They sell contracts to lock in energy at a fixed rate, but it doesn't work out in the customers favour long term and the contracts can last 5 years and cost $30,000 to get out of. At some point someone lobbied for this to be legal and Fortis seems to be obligated to give consumers the choice to sign these contracts with third parties, which is why they appear on the Fortis webpage. If someone you know has fallen for this, there's apparently a 10 day cooling off period in which you can cancel without penalties.

Since January I've had this ongoing problem. I have a samsung galaxy z flip 5. I got the preorder in august and set it up with consumer cellular with an esim. It worked perfectly without incident until I moved in January. I have no cell reception at my new house- total deadzone. So I had to turn on wifi calling to recieve texts and calls. Okay, sure, no problem. But wver since turning on wifi calling, it's been down hill.
So far CC customer support has had me:
-reset network
-reset APN
-install physical sim
-reset APN again
Every "solution" has triggered a handful of more problems. Its a nightmare. NOW, since installing the physical sim, I cannot use wifi calling. It won't turn on. I've tried resetting wifi settings, I've tried turning off the esim, i made the physical sim the primary, tried punching in the correct APN settings for consumer cellular again. My wifi is lightning fast, strong, no issues on that end. Wifi calling works using the esim, but the whole point of the physical sim, was to resolve the mms texts not recieving or sending that the esim was failing to do. I rely on wifi calling to recieve calls and texts. So I went from being only able to recieve small, NON-mms texts with wifi calling ON using the esim, to being unable to use wifi calling at ALL with the physical sim. What am I missing? I've called CC over 10 times. I've called samsung. No one has a single clue what the hell is going on. I'm losing my marbles. Every time I find what I'm certain will be the solution, it doesn't work and only creates even more problems.
Thoughts?
Ideas?
Anyone have a similar problem?
I'm also a millennial..grew up on phones and computers! by definition, I should have been able to figure this out on my own by now 😂

More and more, I see blatant fraud on platforms like Amazon, Ebay, and Discogs to name a few. The listing are for one thing but they send another, in the case of 3rd party sellers.
In the most current case. I spent more money than I would have like and paid for a pair of "Sonicare Protectiveclean" model 5000 "gum care edition" toothbrushes (an older model) all verified by the title, description, and pictures. Amazon has listings for the newer models like the "Sonicare Optimal Clean" too, but I could have gotten them cheaper elsewhere, like $40 dollars.
The third party seller shipped the Optimal Clean instead. I was frustrated, but more so, when I realized it wasn't shipped by Amazon. It started many, many hours of trying to return it, on the phone with Amazon. Seller uploaded a cell phone pic of a label for the return. After more hours on the phone with Amazon asking them to make him send a proper email link, he uploaded a pdf, but at least ,this time, the label was valid. It's still a real pain compared to the normal provider link to a printable label.
I spoke with many different Amazon representatives, including a manager. None seemed to care that he was committing fraud, at least from my understanding. After my issue, I read other reviews, and many mentioned it wasn't what they ordered. I think he's doing this on a large scale. One mentioned that "a mistake could be made in shipping", but I said read the reviews, and I don't believe he has the item listed. He's shipping the newer model for a higher price than elsewhere even on Amazon. He seems to be the default seller on allot of the "ProtectiveClean" models.
I posted a question. I was actually curious. I want to know if I can trust amazon listings, and sellers on amazon. My seller answered... and, for me, it confirmed he knows exactly what he's doing. He still comes up as the default seller which really bothers me.
Q: Has anyone gotten the older "Protective Clean" as listed, or is everyone getting a newer model e.g. optimal clean"?
A:"They getting exactly what they supposed to get"
Additional: I have spent hours on the phone with reps. They all say I will get my refund, but didn't care about the fraud...only kept deflecting to my ordesituation alone. I found a pair of "Sonicare ProtectiveClean 4300" for about $40 dollars cheaper than the model I didn't want. I'll be wary of 3rd party sellers, especially that do their own shipping, in the future.
Fellow Consumers, please let me know what you think.

Trying to find a Catfish (Chicago/Yorkville area)
So, this is my first ever redit post so please let me know if there is something I'm missing or shouldn't be in here.
So this is an extremely long and tangled story that I'm going to point form but I met a person on an app called Sober Grid in 2019 when I was attempting to gain support for quitting smoking weed. (Backstory my now xhusband had me convinced I was addicted and was ruining my life- to him I needed to quite)
I quickly made a connection with an individual from Chicago Illinois who presented to be a recovering addict trying to help others on the app to be sober and for himself to remain sober.
We talked steady on the app for a short period of time then moved to what's up app. Yes I was married at the time, yes it was a horrible idea and yes I was the asshole in this situation when it comes down to that. But that's not the point of this post... That could be its own post haha...
Anyways, we carried on conversation and became quite close over that time. He seemed to genuinely care about me, took interest in my life, and we just genuinely grew a natural connection and feelings. This continued over 3-4 years- 1 and 1/2 while married and then the remainder of the time I was seperated/divorced.
Fast forward to now finding out the person I was speaking to was not who they presented themselves to be. He sent me hundreds of photos throughout our "relationship" but after finding out about face ID I found out he was using photos of an Italian soccer player. And when confronted has not answered and never has.
So I am reaching out to good old Redit! I just want to find some closure and know who the fuck was on the other end for those 3-4years. Also curious to see if I was the other women as I now have my suspicions.Before I get asked if we had face timed, We did attempt to FaceTime multiple occasions but he was "busy" or I was unable to pick up (which he knew) but we had multiple phone calls a day.
So about him: - he claimed to have been a US Marine who had resigned and started a typical life. He expressed struggling alot with war PTSD after witnessing many traumatic events and being shot. - he claims to be a Nicor pipe fitter in the Chicago/Yorkville area - has expressed that his parents passed away when he was super young, struggled with homelessness in highschool due to this and was in foster care but had a horrible experience. - he was going by the name Michael and his last name starts with an A - I have both cell phone numbers he called from - was a personal trainer for classes at a YMCA in Yorkville
If this sounds familiar I would love to hear from you! If you have more questions I'll answer the best I can.
Help me catch this catfish Redit.