Post by mhbruin on Apr 22, 2022 11:41:43 GMT -8
US Vaccine Data - We Have Now Administered 570 Million Shots (Population 333 Million)
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California Precipitation (Updated Tuesday April 19)
We had some rain up north this week.
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The Man Who Fell Into the Upholstery Machine is Fully Recovered.
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Today's Worst Person in the World Nominees
Will Her Plea in Court Be, "I Did"? Maybe They Just Wanted the Guests to Eat More.
Police in Florida have arrested a bride and her caterer after finding they allegedly added cannabis to food that was later served to wedding guests.
The arrests came some two months after officials were called to the wedding to assist guests who said they felt as though they had been drugged.
Danya Svoboda and caterer Joycelyn Bryan face charges of tampering, negligence and delivery of marijuana.
Officials made the arrests after testing food and drinks from the party.
The wedding occurred on 19 February in the city of Longwood, in central Florida.
Responding deputies wrote in their incident report that several of the 50 guests present reported "feeling weird," after eating meatballs, Caesar salad, tortellini, and "bread with an olive oil and herb dip".
Guests were complaining of stomach pains and vomiting. Several were transported to hospital for treatment.
Cars Don't Kill Kids. People Who Love Guns Do. (Actually Both Do, But Guns Kill More).
Guns became the leading cause of death among children and teens in 2020, killing more people ages 1 to 19 in the U.S. than vehicle crashes, drugs overdoses or cancer.
More than 4,300 died of firearm-related injuries that year — a 29 percent increase from 2019 — according to a research letter published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The letter analyzed decades of mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"In the last 40 years, and almost certainly before that, this is the first time that firearm injuries have surpassed motor vehicle crashes among kids," said a co-author of the letter, Jason Goldstick, a research associate professor at the University of Michigan.
American Ignorance Could Destroy Us All
Here's a stunning fact: President Joe Biden created more jobs during his first year in office than any other president on record, and yet only 3 in 10 registered voters correctly believe the U.S. gained jobs in 2021.
In fact, the U.S. economy added about 6.6 million jobs in Biden's first year. But according to new polling from the progressive consortium Navigator Research, while 30% of voters said the U.S. gained jobs, 17% said it lost as many jobs as it gained, 24% weren't sure, and 29% said the country lost jobs. In other words, 70% of voters either got it wrong or didn’t know.
If Only All Insurrectionists Were This Dumb
A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly pepper spraying officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6, and who law enforcement officials say then allegedly made a menacing call to the FBI special agent investigating his role in the riot.
Barry Bennett Ramey, who officials say was affiliated with the Proud Boys, was arrested in Florida on Thursday, according to court records. He is facing charges of assault on federal law enforcement officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon; obstructing law enforcement; entering or remaining on restricted grounds with intent to impede; knowingly engaging in an act of physical violence while using or carrying and deadly or dangerous weapon; and an act of physical violence on Capitol grounds.
Earlier this month, according to the FBI affidavit, Ramey called the FBI special agent investigating his case and read aloud the agent's home address. He then texted the agent the agent's former vehicle identification number.
I suppose there is some sort of logic to Ramey’s actions. If you have already chemically assaulted cops, threatening an FBI agent is no biggie. In for a penny in for a pound.
Too bad that the FBI agent you threatened arrested you.
Court records indicate that the same FBI special agent who was threatened executed Ramey's arrest warrant Thursday morning in Plantation, Florida. Ramey will make his initial appearance in a federal court in Fort Lauderdale on Friday. Court records do not yet list an attorney for Ramey.
DeathSentence Could Be Helping the Mouse
Florida taxpayers could face a $1 billion Disney debt bomb if its special district status is revoked
See, Disney World and its environs are within a “special improvement district” — a tax authority equivalent of the SCOTUS “companies are people” dictum (it never was in a ruling). Disney operates this special tax district as a stand alone legal entity — building and maintaining roads, picking trash, the whole kit and caboodle. In return, Disney has had the authority to run the special district — called Reedy Creek Improvement District — as it sees fit.
The Reedy Creek Improvement District has issued over $1 billion in debt. Actually, it could be $1.7 billion, maybe even $2 billion. And here is the kicker:
Under Florida statute, if Reedy Creek is dissolved, those liabilities are transferred to the local governments — either Bay Lake or Lake Buena Vista, or more likely, Orange and Osceola counties.
And the cities or counties would get? The property taxes that Disney already pays and nothing more:
Tax experts say that in order for the counties to collect additional revenue from Disney to pay the bond debt, the counties would have to create a new special tax district of their own. Even if they created a new special “Disney” tax district, the tax rate would be capped below that of the current district rate, leaving Orange and Osceola counties with Reedy Creek’s debt service but with less revenue to pay it off.
TucKGBer Thinks He Knows Who the Real Villain Is.
Meadows Is Creating the Evidence of Voter Fraud By Himself
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was simultaneously registered to vote in three states ― North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, according to records obtained by The Washington Post’s Fact Checker.
The ex-Trump aide was removed from voter rolls in North Carolina earlier this month while he is being investigated by state election officials for possible voter fraud. Meadows, who represented the state in the House before his time in Donald Trump’s White House, was registered to vote using an address where he reportedly never lived.
Meadows remains registered to vote in both Virginia and South Carolina, per the Post.
Like his former boss, Meadows constantly talked up “election integrity” and the threat of purported voter fraud during the 2020 presidential campaign and after Trump’s defeat. There has been no significant evidence of either, despite Trump’s continued insistence that he won.
Woops!
Why Donate to Build the Wall If Mexico Is Going to Pay For It?
The co-founder of the “We Build The Wall” project aimed at raising money for a border wall pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in a case that once included former President Donald Trump's adviser Steve Bannon.
Brian Kolfage admitted to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars while promising all donations would pay for the wall. His plea came a month before a trial in a case that began in dramatic fashion in August 2020 when Bannon was pulled from a luxury yacht off the coast of Connecticut and arrested on allegations that he and three others falsely promised donors that all donations would help build a wall on the southern border.
Bannon was pardoned by Trump just before he left office last year. Bannon had pleaded not guilty to charges that he pocketed over $1 million, using some of the money to secretly pay Kolfage, an Air Force veteran who lost both legs in a mortar attack in Iraq.
A guilty plea Thursday by codefendant financier Andrew Badolato in the case during the same remotely conducted electronic hearing before U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan meant that only one of the four defendants originally charged might go to trial in mid-May.
Plea agreements between the government and Kolfage and Badolato specified the defendants will not challenge sentences within an agreed-to guidelines range. For Kolfage, that range was four to five years. For Badolato, it was roughly 3 1/2 years to four years. Sentencing was scheduled for Sept. 6.
He Flew An Airplane in the Air and Where It Landed He Knows Not Where
A YouTuber who crashed his plane in 2021 did so deliberately so he could use the footage in a video, the Federal Aviation Administration says. The video on Jacob's YouTube channel, which has 134,000 subscribers, has massed nearly 2 million views since it was posted in December.
Trevor Jacob, a snowboarder who has competed in the Olympics, had been under investigation from the FAA following his plane crashed in the Los Padres National Forest on November 24, 2021.
In a letter to Jacob obtained by CBS News, the FAA says its investigation found prior to the flight, Jacob attached multiple cameras outside the plane, pointed in the direction of the propeller, "in order to record video footage of the outside and inside of the plane during flight."
Jacob said the engine failed, but prior to jumping out of the plane, he put on a parachute and made no attempts to restart the engine or look for areas to land, nor did he try to contact Traffic Control on the emergency frequency, the FAA says.
"You jumped out of [the plane] while holding a camera attached to a selfie stick and continued to record the aircraft during your descent," the letter reads. "After the crash you recovered and then disposed of the wreckage of [the plane]." He did, however, take the cameras.
The FAA says Jacob was "careless or reckless so as to endanger the life or property of another," and they are revoking his private pilot license.
The crash video is by far one of Jacob's most viewed videos, and he has only uploaded one video on YouTube since. His YouTube channel frequently features skydiving and other extreme sports like snowboarding.
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Today's Best Person in the World Nominees
I Know He Shouldn't Have Done It, But How Often Would You Want to Have Mike Around to Punch Out a Jerk?
Former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson punched a fellow airline passenger after the person "threw a water bottle at him," Tyson's spokesperson has said.
Video taken on the plane shows Tyson leaning over his seat as he lands repeated punches an unidentified man.
A spokesperson for the boxing Hall of Famer confirmed Tyson had an "incident with an aggressive passenger" who was "harassing him".
Police were dispatched and temporarily detained two individuals.
One person was treated at San Francisco International Airport for non-life threatening injuries.
"That subject provided minimal details of the incident and refused to co-operate further with the police investigation," a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.
The Woman Needed Mike Tyson
I was 32 weeks pregnant with identical twin boys when my life changed forever.
During a routine ultrasound, we found out one of our twin boys had died. An appointment two days earlier had confirmed they were both alive. Not only was one baby, Nicholas, no longer living, but the other baby, M, was in serious danger of injury as a result of his brother’s passing. The doctor sent me directly to the hospital so we could monitor M around the clock. I stayed there until my sons were born five long days later ― one so little, fighting for his life, and one so quiet.
Some people said downright cruel things like:
“At least you have two other children.”
“Thank God you have another baby to keep you busy.”
“You can have more kids.”
“Everything happens for a reason.”
“God must have had a plan for him.”
There is no “at least” when you have lost one of your children. My surviving twin is not a consolation prize. Children are not interchangeable or replaceable.
Do You Hear Her? Do You Care?
Vice President Kamala Harris is once again drawing attention to the “national crisis” of women dying from pregnancy and childbirth complications — disproportionately Black women.
In a visit Thursday to the University of California, San Francisco, Harris noted that the U.S. has the worst maternal mortality rate among all developed countries.
“I do believe that our nation is facing a crisis on the issue of maternal health — it’s real,” Harris said in her remarks.
“We know, for certain women the risk is much higher,” she added, noting that regardless of income or education levels, Black women are over three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women, and Native women over twice as likely.
“A big factor which contributes to these outcomes is systemic inequities,” Harris added. “Differences in how people are treated based on who they are ... disparities that are often a matter of life and death.”
Most pregnancy-related deaths in the United States are fully preventable, and they happen up to a year after a person gives birth, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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We Need a Whole Section Today for Alex Jones News
Alex Jones' Attorney Norm Pattis Says N-Word With His Pants Down During Standup Set
A high-profile attorney for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones used the N-word and other slurs during a standup routine with his pants down last month.
“You just can’t say certain words, they’re off-limits. And one of those words is n****r,” Norm Pattis, a 66-year-old attorney, said during a March 21 standup routine at a pizza spot in East Haven, Connecticut.
Video surfaced this week of Pattis’ performance at Tolli’s Apizza, part of a competition that featured comedians and musicians. He was seen rambling about Black Lives Matter and making homophobic and racist remarks, all with his pants around his ankles (he was wearing basketball shorts underneath). A Black woman sitting in the front row stares at Pattis throughout the nearly eight-minute set, clearly unimpressed.
Of Course He Did This.
Alex Jones is facing a new lawsuit in Texas over accusations that the Infowars host hid millions of dollars in assets after families of Sandy Hook victims began taking him to court.
Relatives of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, massacre have already won defamation lawsuits against Jones after he said the shootings never happened. The new lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday, comes as trials are set for this year over how much he should pay.
“After Alex Jones was sued for claiming the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary was a hoax, the infamous conspiracy theorist conspired to divert his assets to shell companies owned by insiders like his parents, his children, and himself," reads the lawsuit, which was filed in Austin, Texas, by some of the Sandy Hook families.
It's Behind a Paywall, But Here's the Headline
Alex Jones hit with $1 million for violating court orders in Sandy Hook lawsuits – Austin American-Statesman
Alex Jones: InfoWars chief offers to speak to Jan 6 investigators in return for immunity
Here's what this means:
1) Alex Jones thinks he has criminal liability.
2) He thinks he has evidence against at least one bigger fish.
3) He is willing to talk and testify.
Jones's Pants-Down Lawyer May Have Filed Things Improperly. Shocking!
A state judge has reluctantly canceled next week's trial for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in the Sandy Hook defamation case, calling the decision an injustice that was forced upon her after Jones' lawyers "improperly filed" bankruptcy documents.
Speaking at a pretrial hearing in her Austin courtroom Wednesday, state District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble said federal bankruptcy rules left her no choice but to delay a two-week trial — set to begin Monday with jury selection — that would have determined how much money Jones owes to the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the 2012 mass shooting.
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Invasions Have Consequences
Two Things Said on Anderson Cooper Last Night.
1) Ukraine now has more tanks in the field than Russia. Anderson isn't the only one.
2) The US is now delivering custom drones to the Ukrainians, built to their specifications.
Anderson Cooper May Have Slightly Over-Counted Russian Tanks
Putin Says Not Even a Fly Will Be Able to Get in Or Out. But What About a Ukrainian Soldier?
As I’ve been suggesting, it made no sense for Russia to expend more cannon fodder on rooting out Ukrainian defenders from the city-sized labyrinth that is the Azovastal steel plant. So Russia will put up a cordon around the place, and send the rest of their Mariupol forces north to join the fight for Donbas.
Except … have you seen the factory?
The factory is over 4 square miles large. I measured the outside border of the facility and it was over 9 miles, half of it over water. Russia’s lack of night-vision goggles will only compound the difficulty of containing the Ukrainians at the plant. Indeed, its defenders ventured out of the complex a couple of days ago to rescue 500 Ukrainian border guards surrounded and low on ammo in a different part of the city. It will be possible for Russia to keep these forces in Mariupol, but it’ll be impossible to prevent them from roaming the city. Whatever poor Russians or proxies are left behind will be sniped, ambushed, harassed, and attrited little by little.
It's Not All Quiet on the Eastern Front
The rest of the front appears static on paper, with no territory changing hands, but troops on the ground were certainly busy. Ukraine’s General Staff claimed they repelled 10 different Russian attacks and inflicted significant casualties over the past two days:
According to the information, on April 20 this year, another batch of wounded soldiers of the Russian Federation (about 220 people) and over 50 bodies of the killed firefighters were delivered to the central district hospital of Novoaydar city.
In addition, the battalion tactical group of the 136th individual [motorized] brigade of the 58th military army of the Southern Military District, which was operating in the Kurahivsky direction, suffered significant losses in live force (up to 250 people) ...
In the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, ten attacks of Russian occupiers have been shot down in the past 24 hours, six tanks were destroyed, eight units of armored and fifteen units of automobile equipment, four artillery systems.
General staff also reported that some Russian units weren’t getting paid, further adding to morale woes. And while it’s always wise to doubt these casualty reports, they seem to generally match up with some of the videos we can see online
Another One Bites the Dust
And Another One Gone, and Another One Gone
Attack, Lose, Repeat.
Not All the Death and Destruction is Happening In Ukraine
Sergey Protosenya ex-chief accountant of Novatek gas company is believed to have killed his wife Natalia and his 18-year-old daughter with an ax before taking his own life in the courtyard of his luxury villa in Lloret de Mar on Spain’s Costa Brava. Police are investigating if it could be a murder made to appear as a murder-suicide.
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A source in the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation stated that the vice-president of "Gazprombank", Vladislav Avaev, his wife and his underage daughter were found dead in Moscow.
All the deceased had gunshot wounds.
The source stated that "Avaev killed his wife and daughter and committed suicide, according to preliminary information."
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We Can All Do This
Work from home, lower your speed on highways and take the train instead of a plane if you want to save energy and beat Russian President Vladimir Putin, the European Commission advised citizens, as part of recommendations to reduce reliance on Russian oil.
The range of “simple steps” outlined in the Playing My Part plan on Thursday could save a typical household on average almost 500 euros ($540) a year and 220 million barrels of oil a year for all of the European Union, according to the commission and the Paris-based International Energy Agency.
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It's Not Over Until the Nerdy Fauci Sings - Personal Edition
My adult daughter, who lives at home, just started a new job with a tech startup this week. Last night, she attended a company dinner.
This morning she got a call from the office telling her not to come in. The COO, who was at the dinner and one other employee have tested postive.
She is somewhat immuno-compromised, and she has been exposed.
It's Not Over Until the Nerdy Fauci Sings - Boston Edition
Boston urged people to start wearing masks Thursday and the Biden administration weighed its next legal step in what is shaping up to be a high-stakes court fight over the abrupt end of the national mask mandate on airplanes and mass transit.
The Boston Public Health Commission noted a rise in hospitalizations, as well as a 65% increase in cases and an even larger spike in COVID-19 levels in local wastewater samples. It also stressed that the guidance was merely a recommendation, not an order.
The country is wrestling with how to deal with the next phase of the pandemic and find the right balance in enacting health measures at a time when many Americans are ready to move on after two exhausting years.
It's Never Over for Some People
A U.K. patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half, scientists reported, underscoring the importance of protecting vulnerable people from the coronavirus.
There’s no way to know for sure whether it was the longest-lasting COVID-19 infection because not everyone gets tested, especially on a regular basis like this case.
But at 505 days, “it certainly seems to be the longest reported infection,” said Dr. Luke Blagdon Snell, an infectious disease expert at the Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Snell’s team plans to present several “persistent” COVID-19 cases at an infectious diseases meeting in Portugal this weekend.
Their study investigated which mutations arise — and whether variants evolve — in people with super long infections. It involved nine patients who tested positive for the virus for at least eight weeks. All had weakened immune systems from organ transplants, HIV, cancer or treatment for other illnesses. None were identified for privacy reasons.
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I Ask Again, Why Forgive Student Debt, But Not Other Debt?
From The Economist:
Forgiving student debt is not particularly progressive. College-educated Americans command a sizeable wage premium. Those who attend graduate school often take out large loans at higher interest rates than for undergraduate degrees. The crfb estimates that the effective debt cancellation for students who went to medical or law school is between $29,500 and $48,500 (see chart). For those with two-year degrees and those who did not finish college—the most economically vulnerable—the effective benefit has been less than $3,500. “The problem with universal loan forgiveness is that you end up with a system where a lot of the money goes to successful, affluent, white students,” says Adam Looney, a professor at the University of Utah and former official at the Treasury Department.
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Martin Lewis warns cost of living crisis may affect people applying for mortgages this year
Dean Jerry has no comment.
Martin Lewis is a British Money Expert
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Just What We DIDN'T Need. Another Streaming Service.
CNN's new owner says it will close the US-based news channel's streaming service just a month after it launched.
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) says it will issue refunds to subscribers after the service is shut down on 30 April.
The head of CNN+ has resigned and hundreds more workers could be at risk of losing their jobs.
CNN+ was launched on 29 March in an attempt to bring in revenues from news streaming subscriptions.
The company spent as much as $300m on developing the service but it got off to a slow start, attracting just 10,000 viewers a day, according to reports.
Was It CNN-? Did People Confuse it With C++?
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Dark Matter is Not a New Netflix Series. The Fifth Force Is Not a Bruce Willis Movie.
Deep underground amidst the Alps, scientists are barely able to contain their excitement.
They whisper about discoveries that would radically alter our understanding of the Universe.
"I've been hunting for the fifth force for as long as I've been a particle physicist," says Dr Sam Harper. "Maybe this is the year".
For the past 20 years, Sam has been trying to find evidence of a fifth force of nature, with gravity, electromagnetism and two nuclear forces being the four that physicists already know about.
He's pinning his hopes on a major revamp of the Large Hadron Collider. It's the world's most advanced particle accelerator - a vast machine that smashes atoms together to break them apart and discover what is inside them.
It's been souped up even further in a three-year upgrade. Its instruments are more sensitive, allowing researchers to study the collision of particles from the inside of atoms in higher definition; its software has been enhanced so that it is able to take data at a rate of 30 million times each second; and its beams are narrower, which greatly increases the number of collisions.
What all this means is that there's now the best chance ever of the LHC finding subatomic particles that are completely new to science. The hope is that it will make discoveries that will spark the biggest revolution in physics in a hundred years.
As well as believing that they may find a new, fifth force of nature, researchers hope to find evidence of an invisible substance that makes up most of the Universe called Dark Matter.
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Do You Think Trying to Pay Will Drive Them to Drink?
The Tennessee Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that would require a drunken driver convicted of killing a parent or caregiver pay child support for the victim's children.
The bill unanimously passed in Tennessee's House of Representatives earlier this year.
"Under this bill, if a defendant is convicted of vehicular homicide due to intoxication or aggravated vehicular homicide and the victim of the offense was the parent of a minor child, then the sentencing court must order the defendant to pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim’s children until each child reaches 18 years of age," the bill's summary says.
The reasonable amount of child support would be based on the financial needs of the child, the financial resources of the surviving parent or the state and the standard of living that the child is used to, the bill says.
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Losing Sleep Over the French Election? Le Pen Should Be
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Why do Museums Want to Hang on to Nazi-Plundered Art?
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Jewish family that is trying to reclaim a Camille Pissarro painting seized by the Nazis in 1939 and now owned by a leading Spanish museum, court documents show.
In the latest twist in a two-decade legal saga, Supreme Court justices ruled unanimously on Thursday that the dispute between the Cassirer family and Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation should be decided according to the law of the state of California, and not U.S. federal law.
"The family believes this is a success and they are hopeful that justice will be served," Bernardo Cremades, lawyer of the Jewish Community of Madrid and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain, which are helping the Cassirers, told Reuters on Friday.
"Under California's law a person cannot consolidate the property of any asset that's been stolen," Cremades said.
"In this case there is no doubt, and the Thyssen Foundation does not deny it, that the painting was plundered by the Nazis during World War Two."
The Thyssen Museum said in a statement it was confident that the appeals court in California would rule in its favour.
Lilly Cassirer, whose family owned an art gallery and publishing house, inherited "Rue Saint-Honore, Apres-midi. Effet de Pluie" in 1926. She was forced to surrender the Impressionist painting to the Nazis in 1939 in order to obtain exit visas from Germany.
The artwork resurfaced in the United States in 1951, where it remained until it was purchased by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza for $300,000 in 1976. His collection gave rise to the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.
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New Cases 7-Day Average | Deaths 7-Day Average | New Hospitalizations 7-Day Average | |
| Apr 21 | 40,744 | 346 | |
| Apr 20 | 42,604 | 375 | 1,609 |
| Apr 19 | 40,985 | 385 | 1,582 |
| Apr 18 | 37,132 | 380 | 1,564 |
| Apr 17 | 35,212 | 373 | 1,542 |
| Apr 16 | 34,972 | 379 | 1,532 |
| Apr 15 | 34,778 | 399 | 1,510 |
| Apr 14 | 35,475 | 446 | 1,490 |
| Apr 13 | 31,391 | 409 | 1,477 |
| Apr 12 | 29,401 | 452 | 1,463 |
| Apr 11 | 30,208 | 483 | 1.447 |
| Apr 10 | 28,927 | 500 | 1,443 |
| Apr 9 | 28,339 | 509 | |
| Apr 8 | 28,169 | 516 | |
| Apr 7 | 26,286 | 471 | |
| Apr 6 | 26,595 | 496 | |
| Apr 5 | 26,845 | 533 | |
| Apr 4 | 25,537 | 537 | |
| Apr 3 | 25,074 | 572 | |
| Apr 2 | 25,787 | 576 | |
| Apr 1 | 26,106 | 584 | |
| Mar 31 | 25,980 | 605 | |
| Mar 30 | 25,732 | 626 | |
| Mar 29 | 25,218 | 644 | |
| Mar 28 | 26,190 | 700 | |
| Mar 27 | 26,487 | 690 | |
| Mar 26 | 26,593 | 697 | |
| Mar 25 | 26,874 | 705 | |
| Mar 24 | 27,235 | 732 | |
| Mar 23 | 27,134 | 753 | |
| Mar 22 | 27,545 | 787 | |
| Mar 21 | 28,657 | 861 | |
| Mar 20 | 27,786 | 901 | |
| Mar 19 | 27,747 | 909 | |
| Mar 18 | 28,274 | 972 | |
| Mar 17 | 29,317 | 1,035 | |
| Mar 16 | 30,040 | 1,052 | |
| Mar 15 | 30,934 | 1,107 | |
| Mar 14 | 32,458 | 1,186 | |
| Mar 13 | 34,113 | 1,187 | |
| Feb 16, 2021 | 78,292 |
| At Least One Dose | Fully Vaccinated | % of Vaccinated W/ Boosters | |
| % of Total Population | 77.2% | 65.8% | 45.3% |
| % of Population 5+ | 82.1% | 70.0% | |
| % of Population 12+ | 86.9% | 74.2% | 47.0% |
| % of Population 18+ | 88.6% | 75.7% | 48.2% |
| % of Population 65+ | 95.0% | 89.5% | 67.2% |
California Precipitation (Updated Tuesday April 19)
We had some rain up north this week.
| Percent of Average for this Date | Last Week | |
| Northern Sierra Precipitation | 79% (70%) | 73% (63% of full season average) |
| San Joaquin Precipitation | 65% (58%) | 65% (57%) |
| Tulare Basin Precipitation | 60% (54%) | 61% (53%) |
| Snow Water Content - North | 29% | 15% |
| Snow Water Content - Central | 33% | 27% |
| Snow Water Content - South | 23% | 24% |
The Man Who Fell Into the Upholstery Machine is Fully Recovered.
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Today's Worst Person in the World Nominees
Will Her Plea in Court Be, "I Did"? Maybe They Just Wanted the Guests to Eat More.
Police in Florida have arrested a bride and her caterer after finding they allegedly added cannabis to food that was later served to wedding guests.
The arrests came some two months after officials were called to the wedding to assist guests who said they felt as though they had been drugged.
Danya Svoboda and caterer Joycelyn Bryan face charges of tampering, negligence and delivery of marijuana.
Officials made the arrests after testing food and drinks from the party.
The wedding occurred on 19 February in the city of Longwood, in central Florida.
Responding deputies wrote in their incident report that several of the 50 guests present reported "feeling weird," after eating meatballs, Caesar salad, tortellini, and "bread with an olive oil and herb dip".
Guests were complaining of stomach pains and vomiting. Several were transported to hospital for treatment.
Cars Don't Kill Kids. People Who Love Guns Do. (Actually Both Do, But Guns Kill More).
Guns became the leading cause of death among children and teens in 2020, killing more people ages 1 to 19 in the U.S. than vehicle crashes, drugs overdoses or cancer.
More than 4,300 died of firearm-related injuries that year — a 29 percent increase from 2019 — according to a research letter published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The letter analyzed decades of mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"In the last 40 years, and almost certainly before that, this is the first time that firearm injuries have surpassed motor vehicle crashes among kids," said a co-author of the letter, Jason Goldstick, a research associate professor at the University of Michigan.
American Ignorance Could Destroy Us All
Here's a stunning fact: President Joe Biden created more jobs during his first year in office than any other president on record, and yet only 3 in 10 registered voters correctly believe the U.S. gained jobs in 2021.
In fact, the U.S. economy added about 6.6 million jobs in Biden's first year. But according to new polling from the progressive consortium Navigator Research, while 30% of voters said the U.S. gained jobs, 17% said it lost as many jobs as it gained, 24% weren't sure, and 29% said the country lost jobs. In other words, 70% of voters either got it wrong or didn’t know.
If Only All Insurrectionists Were This Dumb
A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly pepper spraying officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6, and who law enforcement officials say then allegedly made a menacing call to the FBI special agent investigating his role in the riot.
Barry Bennett Ramey, who officials say was affiliated with the Proud Boys, was arrested in Florida on Thursday, according to court records. He is facing charges of assault on federal law enforcement officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon; obstructing law enforcement; entering or remaining on restricted grounds with intent to impede; knowingly engaging in an act of physical violence while using or carrying and deadly or dangerous weapon; and an act of physical violence on Capitol grounds.
Earlier this month, according to the FBI affidavit, Ramey called the FBI special agent investigating his case and read aloud the agent's home address. He then texted the agent the agent's former vehicle identification number.
I suppose there is some sort of logic to Ramey’s actions. If you have already chemically assaulted cops, threatening an FBI agent is no biggie. In for a penny in for a pound.
Too bad that the FBI agent you threatened arrested you.
Court records indicate that the same FBI special agent who was threatened executed Ramey's arrest warrant Thursday morning in Plantation, Florida. Ramey will make his initial appearance in a federal court in Fort Lauderdale on Friday. Court records do not yet list an attorney for Ramey.
DeathSentence Could Be Helping the Mouse
Florida taxpayers could face a $1 billion Disney debt bomb if its special district status is revoked
See, Disney World and its environs are within a “special improvement district” — a tax authority equivalent of the SCOTUS “companies are people” dictum (it never was in a ruling). Disney operates this special tax district as a stand alone legal entity — building and maintaining roads, picking trash, the whole kit and caboodle. In return, Disney has had the authority to run the special district — called Reedy Creek Improvement District — as it sees fit.
The Reedy Creek Improvement District has issued over $1 billion in debt. Actually, it could be $1.7 billion, maybe even $2 billion. And here is the kicker:
Under Florida statute, if Reedy Creek is dissolved, those liabilities are transferred to the local governments — either Bay Lake or Lake Buena Vista, or more likely, Orange and Osceola counties.
And the cities or counties would get? The property taxes that Disney already pays and nothing more:
Tax experts say that in order for the counties to collect additional revenue from Disney to pay the bond debt, the counties would have to create a new special tax district of their own. Even if they created a new special “Disney” tax district, the tax rate would be capped below that of the current district rate, leaving Orange and Osceola counties with Reedy Creek’s debt service but with less revenue to pay it off.
TucKGBer Thinks He Knows Who the Real Villain Is.
Meadows Is Creating the Evidence of Voter Fraud By Himself
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was simultaneously registered to vote in three states ― North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina, according to records obtained by The Washington Post’s Fact Checker.
The ex-Trump aide was removed from voter rolls in North Carolina earlier this month while he is being investigated by state election officials for possible voter fraud. Meadows, who represented the state in the House before his time in Donald Trump’s White House, was registered to vote using an address where he reportedly never lived.
Meadows remains registered to vote in both Virginia and South Carolina, per the Post.
Like his former boss, Meadows constantly talked up “election integrity” and the threat of purported voter fraud during the 2020 presidential campaign and after Trump’s defeat. There has been no significant evidence of either, despite Trump’s continued insistence that he won.
Woops!
Why Donate to Build the Wall If Mexico Is Going to Pay For It?
The co-founder of the “We Build The Wall” project aimed at raising money for a border wall pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in a case that once included former President Donald Trump's adviser Steve Bannon.
Brian Kolfage admitted to pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars while promising all donations would pay for the wall. His plea came a month before a trial in a case that began in dramatic fashion in August 2020 when Bannon was pulled from a luxury yacht off the coast of Connecticut and arrested on allegations that he and three others falsely promised donors that all donations would help build a wall on the southern border.
Bannon was pardoned by Trump just before he left office last year. Bannon had pleaded not guilty to charges that he pocketed over $1 million, using some of the money to secretly pay Kolfage, an Air Force veteran who lost both legs in a mortar attack in Iraq.
A guilty plea Thursday by codefendant financier Andrew Badolato in the case during the same remotely conducted electronic hearing before U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan meant that only one of the four defendants originally charged might go to trial in mid-May.
Plea agreements between the government and Kolfage and Badolato specified the defendants will not challenge sentences within an agreed-to guidelines range. For Kolfage, that range was four to five years. For Badolato, it was roughly 3 1/2 years to four years. Sentencing was scheduled for Sept. 6.
He Flew An Airplane in the Air and Where It Landed He Knows Not Where
A YouTuber who crashed his plane in 2021 did so deliberately so he could use the footage in a video, the Federal Aviation Administration says. The video on Jacob's YouTube channel, which has 134,000 subscribers, has massed nearly 2 million views since it was posted in December.
Trevor Jacob, a snowboarder who has competed in the Olympics, had been under investigation from the FAA following his plane crashed in the Los Padres National Forest on November 24, 2021.
In a letter to Jacob obtained by CBS News, the FAA says its investigation found prior to the flight, Jacob attached multiple cameras outside the plane, pointed in the direction of the propeller, "in order to record video footage of the outside and inside of the plane during flight."
Jacob said the engine failed, but prior to jumping out of the plane, he put on a parachute and made no attempts to restart the engine or look for areas to land, nor did he try to contact Traffic Control on the emergency frequency, the FAA says.
"You jumped out of [the plane] while holding a camera attached to a selfie stick and continued to record the aircraft during your descent," the letter reads. "After the crash you recovered and then disposed of the wreckage of [the plane]." He did, however, take the cameras.
The FAA says Jacob was "careless or reckless so as to endanger the life or property of another," and they are revoking his private pilot license.
The crash video is by far one of Jacob's most viewed videos, and he has only uploaded one video on YouTube since. His YouTube channel frequently features skydiving and other extreme sports like snowboarding.
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Today's Best Person in the World Nominees
I Know He Shouldn't Have Done It, But How Often Would You Want to Have Mike Around to Punch Out a Jerk?
Former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson punched a fellow airline passenger after the person "threw a water bottle at him," Tyson's spokesperson has said.
Video taken on the plane shows Tyson leaning over his seat as he lands repeated punches an unidentified man.
A spokesperson for the boxing Hall of Famer confirmed Tyson had an "incident with an aggressive passenger" who was "harassing him".
Police were dispatched and temporarily detained two individuals.
One person was treated at San Francisco International Airport for non-life threatening injuries.
"That subject provided minimal details of the incident and refused to co-operate further with the police investigation," a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.
The Woman Needed Mike Tyson
I was 32 weeks pregnant with identical twin boys when my life changed forever.
During a routine ultrasound, we found out one of our twin boys had died. An appointment two days earlier had confirmed they were both alive. Not only was one baby, Nicholas, no longer living, but the other baby, M, was in serious danger of injury as a result of his brother’s passing. The doctor sent me directly to the hospital so we could monitor M around the clock. I stayed there until my sons were born five long days later ― one so little, fighting for his life, and one so quiet.
Some people said downright cruel things like:
“At least you have two other children.”
“Thank God you have another baby to keep you busy.”
“You can have more kids.”
“Everything happens for a reason.”
“God must have had a plan for him.”
There is no “at least” when you have lost one of your children. My surviving twin is not a consolation prize. Children are not interchangeable or replaceable.
Do You Hear Her? Do You Care?
Vice President Kamala Harris is once again drawing attention to the “national crisis” of women dying from pregnancy and childbirth complications — disproportionately Black women.
In a visit Thursday to the University of California, San Francisco, Harris noted that the U.S. has the worst maternal mortality rate among all developed countries.
“I do believe that our nation is facing a crisis on the issue of maternal health — it’s real,” Harris said in her remarks.
“We know, for certain women the risk is much higher,” she added, noting that regardless of income or education levels, Black women are over three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women, and Native women over twice as likely.
“A big factor which contributes to these outcomes is systemic inequities,” Harris added. “Differences in how people are treated based on who they are ... disparities that are often a matter of life and death.”
Most pregnancy-related deaths in the United States are fully preventable, and they happen up to a year after a person gives birth, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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We Need a Whole Section Today for Alex Jones News
Alex Jones' Attorney Norm Pattis Says N-Word With His Pants Down During Standup Set
A high-profile attorney for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones used the N-word and other slurs during a standup routine with his pants down last month.
“You just can’t say certain words, they’re off-limits. And one of those words is n****r,” Norm Pattis, a 66-year-old attorney, said during a March 21 standup routine at a pizza spot in East Haven, Connecticut.
Video surfaced this week of Pattis’ performance at Tolli’s Apizza, part of a competition that featured comedians and musicians. He was seen rambling about Black Lives Matter and making homophobic and racist remarks, all with his pants around his ankles (he was wearing basketball shorts underneath). A Black woman sitting in the front row stares at Pattis throughout the nearly eight-minute set, clearly unimpressed.
Of Course He Did This.
Alex Jones is facing a new lawsuit in Texas over accusations that the Infowars host hid millions of dollars in assets after families of Sandy Hook victims began taking him to court.
Relatives of some of the 20 children and six educators killed in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, massacre have already won defamation lawsuits against Jones after he said the shootings never happened. The new lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday, comes as trials are set for this year over how much he should pay.
“After Alex Jones was sued for claiming the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary was a hoax, the infamous conspiracy theorist conspired to divert his assets to shell companies owned by insiders like his parents, his children, and himself," reads the lawsuit, which was filed in Austin, Texas, by some of the Sandy Hook families.
It's Behind a Paywall, But Here's the Headline
Alex Jones hit with $1 million for violating court orders in Sandy Hook lawsuits – Austin American-Statesman
Alex Jones: InfoWars chief offers to speak to Jan 6 investigators in return for immunity
Here's what this means:
1) Alex Jones thinks he has criminal liability.
2) He thinks he has evidence against at least one bigger fish.
3) He is willing to talk and testify.
Jones's Pants-Down Lawyer May Have Filed Things Improperly. Shocking!
A state judge has reluctantly canceled next week's trial for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in the Sandy Hook defamation case, calling the decision an injustice that was forced upon her after Jones' lawyers "improperly filed" bankruptcy documents.
Speaking at a pretrial hearing in her Austin courtroom Wednesday, state District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble said federal bankruptcy rules left her no choice but to delay a two-week trial — set to begin Monday with jury selection — that would have determined how much money Jones owes to the parents of a 6-year-old boy who was killed in the 2012 mass shooting.
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Invasions Have Consequences
Two Things Said on Anderson Cooper Last Night.
1) Ukraine now has more tanks in the field than Russia. Anderson isn't the only one.
2) The US is now delivering custom drones to the Ukrainians, built to their specifications.
Anderson Cooper May Have Slightly Over-Counted Russian Tanks
Putin Says Not Even a Fly Will Be Able to Get in Or Out. But What About a Ukrainian Soldier?
As I’ve been suggesting, it made no sense for Russia to expend more cannon fodder on rooting out Ukrainian defenders from the city-sized labyrinth that is the Azovastal steel plant. So Russia will put up a cordon around the place, and send the rest of their Mariupol forces north to join the fight for Donbas.
Except … have you seen the factory?
The factory is over 4 square miles large. I measured the outside border of the facility and it was over 9 miles, half of it over water. Russia’s lack of night-vision goggles will only compound the difficulty of containing the Ukrainians at the plant. Indeed, its defenders ventured out of the complex a couple of days ago to rescue 500 Ukrainian border guards surrounded and low on ammo in a different part of the city. It will be possible for Russia to keep these forces in Mariupol, but it’ll be impossible to prevent them from roaming the city. Whatever poor Russians or proxies are left behind will be sniped, ambushed, harassed, and attrited little by little.
It's Not All Quiet on the Eastern Front
The rest of the front appears static on paper, with no territory changing hands, but troops on the ground were certainly busy. Ukraine’s General Staff claimed they repelled 10 different Russian attacks and inflicted significant casualties over the past two days:
According to the information, on April 20 this year, another batch of wounded soldiers of the Russian Federation (about 220 people) and over 50 bodies of the killed firefighters were delivered to the central district hospital of Novoaydar city.
In addition, the battalion tactical group of the 136th individual [motorized] brigade of the 58th military army of the Southern Military District, which was operating in the Kurahivsky direction, suffered significant losses in live force (up to 250 people) ...
In the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, ten attacks of Russian occupiers have been shot down in the past 24 hours, six tanks were destroyed, eight units of armored and fifteen units of automobile equipment, four artillery systems.
General staff also reported that some Russian units weren’t getting paid, further adding to morale woes. And while it’s always wise to doubt these casualty reports, they seem to generally match up with some of the videos we can see online
Another One Bites the Dust
And Another One Gone, and Another One Gone
Attack, Lose, Repeat.
Not All the Death and Destruction is Happening In Ukraine
Sergey Protosenya ex-chief accountant of Novatek gas company is believed to have killed his wife Natalia and his 18-year-old daughter with an ax before taking his own life in the courtyard of his luxury villa in Lloret de Mar on Spain’s Costa Brava. Police are investigating if it could be a murder made to appear as a murder-suicide.
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A source in the law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation stated that the vice-president of "Gazprombank", Vladislav Avaev, his wife and his underage daughter were found dead in Moscow.
All the deceased had gunshot wounds.
The source stated that "Avaev killed his wife and daughter and committed suicide, according to preliminary information."
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We Can All Do This
Work from home, lower your speed on highways and take the train instead of a plane if you want to save energy and beat Russian President Vladimir Putin, the European Commission advised citizens, as part of recommendations to reduce reliance on Russian oil.
The range of “simple steps” outlined in the Playing My Part plan on Thursday could save a typical household on average almost 500 euros ($540) a year and 220 million barrels of oil a year for all of the European Union, according to the commission and the Paris-based International Energy Agency.
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It's Not Over Until the Nerdy Fauci Sings - Personal Edition
My adult daughter, who lives at home, just started a new job with a tech startup this week. Last night, she attended a company dinner.
This morning she got a call from the office telling her not to come in. The COO, who was at the dinner and one other employee have tested postive.
She is somewhat immuno-compromised, and she has been exposed.
It's Not Over Until the Nerdy Fauci Sings - Boston Edition
Boston urged people to start wearing masks Thursday and the Biden administration weighed its next legal step in what is shaping up to be a high-stakes court fight over the abrupt end of the national mask mandate on airplanes and mass transit.
The Boston Public Health Commission noted a rise in hospitalizations, as well as a 65% increase in cases and an even larger spike in COVID-19 levels in local wastewater samples. It also stressed that the guidance was merely a recommendation, not an order.
The country is wrestling with how to deal with the next phase of the pandemic and find the right balance in enacting health measures at a time when many Americans are ready to move on after two exhausting years.
It's Never Over for Some People
A U.K. patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half, scientists reported, underscoring the importance of protecting vulnerable people from the coronavirus.
There’s no way to know for sure whether it was the longest-lasting COVID-19 infection because not everyone gets tested, especially on a regular basis like this case.
But at 505 days, “it certainly seems to be the longest reported infection,” said Dr. Luke Blagdon Snell, an infectious disease expert at the Guy’s & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Snell’s team plans to present several “persistent” COVID-19 cases at an infectious diseases meeting in Portugal this weekend.
Their study investigated which mutations arise — and whether variants evolve — in people with super long infections. It involved nine patients who tested positive for the virus for at least eight weeks. All had weakened immune systems from organ transplants, HIV, cancer or treatment for other illnesses. None were identified for privacy reasons.
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I Ask Again, Why Forgive Student Debt, But Not Other Debt?
From The Economist:
Forgiving student debt is not particularly progressive. College-educated Americans command a sizeable wage premium. Those who attend graduate school often take out large loans at higher interest rates than for undergraduate degrees. The crfb estimates that the effective debt cancellation for students who went to medical or law school is between $29,500 and $48,500 (see chart). For those with two-year degrees and those who did not finish college—the most economically vulnerable—the effective benefit has been less than $3,500. “The problem with universal loan forgiveness is that you end up with a system where a lot of the money goes to successful, affluent, white students,” says Adam Looney, a professor at the University of Utah and former official at the Treasury Department.
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Martin Lewis warns cost of living crisis may affect people applying for mortgages this year
Dean Jerry has no comment.
Martin Lewis is a British Money Expert
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Just What We DIDN'T Need. Another Streaming Service.
CNN's new owner says it will close the US-based news channel's streaming service just a month after it launched.
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) says it will issue refunds to subscribers after the service is shut down on 30 April.
The head of CNN+ has resigned and hundreds more workers could be at risk of losing their jobs.
CNN+ was launched on 29 March in an attempt to bring in revenues from news streaming subscriptions.
The company spent as much as $300m on developing the service but it got off to a slow start, attracting just 10,000 viewers a day, according to reports.
Was It CNN-? Did People Confuse it With C++?
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Dark Matter is Not a New Netflix Series. The Fifth Force Is Not a Bruce Willis Movie.
Deep underground amidst the Alps, scientists are barely able to contain their excitement.
They whisper about discoveries that would radically alter our understanding of the Universe.
"I've been hunting for the fifth force for as long as I've been a particle physicist," says Dr Sam Harper. "Maybe this is the year".
For the past 20 years, Sam has been trying to find evidence of a fifth force of nature, with gravity, electromagnetism and two nuclear forces being the four that physicists already know about.
He's pinning his hopes on a major revamp of the Large Hadron Collider. It's the world's most advanced particle accelerator - a vast machine that smashes atoms together to break them apart and discover what is inside them.
It's been souped up even further in a three-year upgrade. Its instruments are more sensitive, allowing researchers to study the collision of particles from the inside of atoms in higher definition; its software has been enhanced so that it is able to take data at a rate of 30 million times each second; and its beams are narrower, which greatly increases the number of collisions.
What all this means is that there's now the best chance ever of the LHC finding subatomic particles that are completely new to science. The hope is that it will make discoveries that will spark the biggest revolution in physics in a hundred years.
As well as believing that they may find a new, fifth force of nature, researchers hope to find evidence of an invisible substance that makes up most of the Universe called Dark Matter.
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Do You Think Trying to Pay Will Drive Them to Drink?
The Tennessee Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill that would require a drunken driver convicted of killing a parent or caregiver pay child support for the victim's children.
The bill unanimously passed in Tennessee's House of Representatives earlier this year.
"Under this bill, if a defendant is convicted of vehicular homicide due to intoxication or aggravated vehicular homicide and the victim of the offense was the parent of a minor child, then the sentencing court must order the defendant to pay restitution in the form of child maintenance to each of the victim’s children until each child reaches 18 years of age," the bill's summary says.
The reasonable amount of child support would be based on the financial needs of the child, the financial resources of the surviving parent or the state and the standard of living that the child is used to, the bill says.
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Losing Sleep Over the French Election? Le Pen Should Be
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Why do Museums Want to Hang on to Nazi-Plundered Art?
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Jewish family that is trying to reclaim a Camille Pissarro painting seized by the Nazis in 1939 and now owned by a leading Spanish museum, court documents show.
In the latest twist in a two-decade legal saga, Supreme Court justices ruled unanimously on Thursday that the dispute between the Cassirer family and Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation should be decided according to the law of the state of California, and not U.S. federal law.
"The family believes this is a success and they are hopeful that justice will be served," Bernardo Cremades, lawyer of the Jewish Community of Madrid and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain, which are helping the Cassirers, told Reuters on Friday.
"Under California's law a person cannot consolidate the property of any asset that's been stolen," Cremades said.
"In this case there is no doubt, and the Thyssen Foundation does not deny it, that the painting was plundered by the Nazis during World War Two."
The Thyssen Museum said in a statement it was confident that the appeals court in California would rule in its favour.
Lilly Cassirer, whose family owned an art gallery and publishing house, inherited "Rue Saint-Honore, Apres-midi. Effet de Pluie" in 1926. She was forced to surrender the Impressionist painting to the Nazis in 1939 in order to obtain exit visas from Germany.
The artwork resurfaced in the United States in 1951, where it remained until it was purchased by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza for $300,000 in 1976. His collection gave rise to the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.
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