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RACINE — The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) has filed a motion against the city of Racine after they ordered to keep schools closed to in-person classes due to the pandemic, while the Supreme Court waits to decide on the issue.
WILL issued the lawsuit after they claim "the City of Racine Public Health Administrator instructed all schools, to remain closed for in-person learning despite an injunction issued Nov. 25 by the Wisconsin Supreme Court that blocked the implementation of a school closure order."
On Nov. 12, the City of Racine Health Department ordered all K-12 school buildings close Nov. 27 through Jan. 15.
“We are all very heartbroken for his family and MMSD community,” the spokesperson said. “Our community has lost a wonderful young person, and when a school family experiences a tragedy, especially the loss of a young life, it deeply impacts all of us.”
The district says it will focus on providing students, familes and staff the support they need in the coming days.
The district spokesperson confirmed this is the first MMSD student who has died of COVID-related causes.
From: https://www.channel3000.com/madison-east-student-dies-of-covid-district-officials-say/
Leaves are off the trees, snow is on the ground in some parts of the state, and one more sign of winter has arrived as well: snowy owls.
The first photographed owl of the season was in Dane County on Nov. 6, according to Wisconsin eBird. The Dane County Humane Society’s Wildlife Center found the bird, which was emaciated and dehydrated, a few miles from the center. Unfortunately, despite the bird being bright and alert while in the center's care, it passed away unexpectedly, according to wildlife rehabilitator Sarah Karls.
As of Nov. 24, three more snowy owls had been recorded on eBird in Bayfield, Chippewa, and Lincoln counties, and a few more had been “casually reported,” according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
Snowy owls spend their summers nesting on the tundra north of the Arctic circle. Come winter, some migrate south into southern Canada and the northern United States, including Wisconsin. Some years, hundreds will migrate into the state in an event known as an irruption. One of the largest irruptions in recent history was the winter of 2017-2018, when 280 snowy owls were documented in the state.
Darnisha and John Garbade aren't naive. An interracial couple with a large blended family, they assumed, when they bought their home in the Burlington Area School District, that they wouldn't be welcomed by everyone.
Maybe her kids would get profiled while driving or shopping, Darnisha Garbade thought. Or a white girl might fall in love with her Black son against her parents' wishes. Nothing they couldn't handle, they thought.
But the Garbades were unprepared for the level of racial animus that has torn their community apart since late August when a Burlington elementary school teacher included the Black Lives Matter movement in a lesson about racism.
The hateful racial slurs — burned into the woodchips of a playground, painted on the floor of a new school building and shouted at students in an online classroom. The hostility and ugly exchanges on social media and at school board meetings.
"We thought our kids would have a great life here," said Darnisha Garbade, president of the Burlington Coalition for Dismantling Racism, which had been pushing district officials for more than a year to address residents' concerns about racial bias and discrimination.
"We had no idea our life would turn out this way," she said. "We never thought it would be like this."
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A black-throated gray warbler has been at Turville Point Conservation Park for at least a month. |
Birders have been flocking to Turville Point Conservation Park for a glimpse of a bird rare to Wisconsin that’s been hanging around far out of its normal range and creating a lot of excitement in birding circles.
Nate Graham, 24, a bird enthusiast since elementary school, spotted the black-throated gray warbler two weeks ago at Turville woods, next to Olin Park, on Madison’s South Side, after learning about the bird’s arrival on the bird-tracking website eBird.
“It was really cool to see because it’s a bird that I’ve only seen before out West,” said Graham, who was in the woods hoping to see it again Thanksgiving morning but didn’t. “It’s associated with the mountains out West and then it shows up in Madison, which has only happened a few times before. So this bird, it’s just really out of place. It’s a bird that isn’t likely to be seen here again in years. It’s a great opportunity for people.”
Birder Neil Gilbert and three others documented on eBird that they saw the black-throated gray warbler Saturday. “It was foraging on the ground in the grass and tangled logs around the small scummy pond by the parking lot,” Gilbert wrote. It “would have been impossible to find except that it was calling regularly.”
The light was so bright it could be seen through closed curtains.
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A fireball "as bright as the full Moon" was seen in the skies over western Japan early on Sunday morning, according to Japanese media.
Hey, it clearly worked.
Mike Tyson wasn’t shy when asked whether he smoked marijuana just ahead of his exhibition bout with Roy Jones Jr. on Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
“Absolutely, yes,” he responded to the question, via USA Today.
Tyson, 54, stepped back into the ring for the first time in 15 years on Saturday night for his exhibition match against Jones Jr. — which was eventually declared a draw by the celebrity judges from the WBC. Yahoo Sports’ Kevin Iole scored it six rounds to two, 78-74, for Tyson.
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| Mike Tyson reacts after receiving a split draw against Roy Jones Jr. at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Nov. 28, 2020. (Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Triller) |
While it wasn’t officially scored, the cannabis Tyson used before didn’t slow him down much if any.
Because it was officially an exhibition, neither Tyson nor Jones Jr. were tested for marijuana before the fight — which is a good thing for Tyson, who quickly lit up after the fight ended, too.
“Listen, I can’t stop smoking,” Tyson said, via USA Today. “I smoked during fights. I just have to smoke, I’m sorry. I’m a smoker … I smoke every day. I never stopped smoking.”
Tyson did say that he quit using cocaine nearly three years ago. With weed, however, it’s a very different story. The iconic fighter even owns his own cannabis company, “Tyson Ranch,” outside of Los Angeles, and they apparently smoke a lot — a lot — of weed.
That isn’t going to change anytime soon.
“It’s just who I am,” Tyson said, via USA Today. “It has no effect on me from a negative standpoint. It’s just what I do and how I am and how I’m going to die. There’s no explanation. There’s no beginning, there’s no end.”
I don't believe it. No one could fight a professional boxer while stoned. You'd be killed.
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President-elect Joe Biden suffered hairline fractures in his foot while playing with one of his dogs, but doctors found “no obvious fracture” while examining him Sunday, according to his doctor.
Biden suffered the injury on Saturday and visited an orthopedist at Delaware Orthopaedic Specialists in Newark, Del., for an examination Sunday afternoon, his office said. A subsequent CT scan “confirmed hairline (small) fractures of President-elect Biden’s lateral and intermediate cuneiform bones, which are in the mid-foot,” according to a statement from his doctor, Kevin O’Connor.
“It is anticipated that he will likely require a walking boot for several weeks,” O’Connor added.
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(Photo courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management) A triangular hole in the ground and a piece of metal are all that remains of the mysterious Utah "obelisk," which disappeared Friday. |
On Sunday, the BLM said in a news release that people “parked on vegetation and left behind human waste” when visiting the undeveloped site, which is not equipped with a designated parking lot or restrooms. Photos the agency tweeted Sunday show where the shining steel pillar once stood, as well as a group of vehicles parked off a dirt road in sagebrush, the red landscape scarred by crisscrossing tire tracks, and what could be a piece of toilet paper sticking out of the ground.
Driving off designated roads and trails in the Monticello Field Office is illegal, the BLM also said.
Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/11/29/visitors-utahs-mysterious/
Japan is struggling with a mental health crisis as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, with more people dying in one month from suicide than from COVID-19 all year long.
The National Police Agency said suicides surged to 2,153 in October alone, with more than 17,000 people taking their own lives this year to date, CBS reported.
By comparison, fewer than 2,000 people in the country have died from COVID-19 in 2020.
Experts say the pandemic has exacerbated mental health issues due to prolonged lockdowns, isolation from family members, unemployment and other financial concerns, and a lack of school structure.
"We need to seriously confront reality," chief government spokesman Katsunobu Kato said this week, announcing new initiatives to help people via suicide hotlines and social media outreach.
Japan has historically had high rates of suicide, but the numbers had begun trending downward.
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| © Ole Jensen / Getty Images A mink at a Denmark estate where all minks must be culled due to a government order on November 7, 2020. Ten samples from mink in Oregon were found to be positive for SARS-CoV-2, the animal virus linked to COVID-19. |
Oregon Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Andrea Cantu-Schomus declined to say which county the farm is in or how many workers have tested positive, citing federal health privacy rules. The farm has about 12,000 animals, she said.
Outbreaks in farmed mink have been reported in several U.S. states and countries. Earlier this month Denmark announced it would kill all 17 million of the mink raised there after confirmation that 12 people had been infected with a mutated strain of COVID-19 that had spread from mink to humans. That strain has not been found elsewhere.
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GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman of Virginia slammed President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans in a recent interview with Forbes, calling the party's large-scale refusal to acknowledge President-elect Joe Biden's victory a "massive grift" and saying that Trump has "never served anything but himself."
Riggleman, an outgoing congressman and one of a handful of House Republicans who are openly acknowledging Biden's presidential win, said that the current posturing by the party is "just money-making for the 2024 election" and "completely unethical."
The conservative congressman said that the fear of Trump's wrath was motivating many House Republicans to prioritize their individual careers over accepting the election results.
"They're worried about committee assignments, they're worried about the team," Riggleman said of Republicans who are standing with the president. Trump, Riggleman said, can "cost them their careers" and for many members, "the career is more important than the facts, it's that simple."
He’s not yet conceded 2020 but is already looking at keeping Republicans in line and making Biden’s life miserable.
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In the twilight of his presidency, Donald Trump is discussing different ways to disrupt the impending Joe Biden era, chief among them by announcing another run against him.
According to three people familiar with the conversations, the president, who refuses to acknowledge he lost the 2020 election as he clearly did, has not just talked to close advisers and confidants about a potential 2024 run to reclaim the White House but about the specifics of a campaign launch. The conversations have explored, among other things, how Trump could best time his announcement so as to keep the Republican Party behind him for the next four years. Two of these knowledgeable sources said the president has, in the past two weeks, even floated the idea of doing a 2024-related event during Biden’s inauguration week, possibly on Inauguration Day, if his legal effort to steal the 2020 election ultimately fails.
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| Utah Department of Public Safety, via Associated Press |
As mysteriously as it arrived, a metal monolith that was discovered last week by Utah public safety workers is now gone, officials said on Saturday.
The three-sided metal structure was removed on Friday evening “by an unknown party” from the public land it was found on, the federal Bureau of Land Management’s Utah office said in a statement.
The bureau said it had not removed the monolith, which it considers “private property.”
The Utah Department of Public Safety said on Monday that it had found the object while surveying for bighorn sheep.
“IT’S GONE!” the Department of Public Safety said, reacting to the news in an Instagram post. “Almost as quickly as it appeared it has now disappeared,” the department said, adding, “I can only speculate” that aliens took it back, using the emoji for extraterrestrials.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/monolith-utah-disappeared.html
Also see: https://www.jtirregulars.com/2020/11/mysterious-monolith-discovered-deep-in.html
and
https://www.jtirregulars.com/2020/11/this-is-wild-mysterious-monolith-found.html
Eight shooting incidents, including one fatality, occurred through the first seven days of the 2020 Wisconsin gun deer hunting season, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
This year's number is twice as many as were recorded in the entire 2019 season and represents an uptick from the five-year average of 5.2 incidents.
While many factors are at play, accident rates in boating and other forms of outdoor recreation have generally increased this year as more people utilize the state's woods and waters during the coronavirus pandemic.
"With every data trend and average there is a high and a low side," said Jon King, DNR hunter education administrator and conservation warden. "This year with the increase in outdoor activities we have seen an increase in users and incident rates."
Shooting incidents have generally fallen in recent decades due to mandatory hunter education, blaze orange clothing requirements and changes in hunting tactics, especially greater use of elevated stands from, which bullets are shot at a downward trajectory, and reduced use of deer drives.
Three quarters of the hunters are drunk at any given time. The only mystery here is how so few of them end up shot.
MARC CHASE
Earlier this month, I sat within feet of a 29-year-old man who then stood accused of raping an 8-year-old girl. The scene filled me with plenty of unease wondering if I would be called to stand in judgment of him.
I had been summoned for jury duty in Lake County Criminal Court near my home in Northwest Indiana, and I was three potential jurors away from being interviewed by prosecutors and the defense attorney for the final jury panel.
I felt great relief, for a host of reasons, when that jury panel was finalized before it was my turn to be questioned for possible service.
The last thing any loving parent wants to do is sit through multiple days of testimony about one of the most horrific things that can be done to a child.
What unadulterated horseshit. Racine loves its sex offenders. They are part of the fabric of government. Multiply the map above by about 10X for a truer picture of the situation. Want to get somewhere in Racine politics? Molest a child to prove your worth.
I needed a new belt. My old one was falling apart. I was tired of pulling up my pants. I looked online. Kohl's, which is near my apartment, had belts on sale. So, off I went.
The place was packed. I knew what I wanted, but I didn't know where it was. I'd never shopped here before. The staff was very polite and cheerful; however, the customers were not.
People were pushing and shoving. One woman all but drove me down with a stroller. She came right at me and seemed surprised that I didn't back down. I told her, "Get the hell out of my way." She skirted around me.
I finally found the men's belts (in three different locations). I got my belt and checked out. Outside, some asshole ignored the stop signs and nearly ran over some shoppers. Merry Christmas.
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| A member of the medical personnel performs a PCR test amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Charleroi, Belgium, November 5, 2020 © REUTERS / Yves Herman |
By Peter Andrews, Irish science journalist and writer based in London. He has a background in life sciences, and graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in genetics.
Earlier this month, Portuguese judges upheld a decision from a lower court that found the forced quarantine of four holidaymakers to be unlawful. The case centred on the reliability (or lack thereof) of Covid-19 PCR tests.
The verdict, delivered on November 11, followed an appeal against a writ of habeas corpus filed by four Germans against the Azores Regional Health Authority. This body had been appealing a ruling from a lower court which had found in favour of the tourists, who claimed that they were illegally confined to a hotel without their consent. The tourists were ordered to stay in the hotel over the summer after one of them tested positive for coronavirus in a PCR test - the other three were labelled close contacts and therefore made to quarantine as well.
The deliberation of the Lisbon Appeal Court is comprehensive and fascinating. It ruled that the Azores Regional Health Authority had violated both Portuguese and international law by confining the Germans to the hotel. The judges also said that only a doctor can “diagnose” someone with a disease, and were critical of the fact that they were apparently never assessed by one.
The conclusion of their 34-page ruling included the following: “In view of current scientific evidence, this test shows itself to be unable to determine beyond reasonable doubt that such positivity corresponds, in fact, to the infection of a person by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.” They were also scathing about the reliability of the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test, the most commonly used check for Covid.
In the eyes of this court, then, a positive test does not correspond to a Covid case. The two most important reasons for this, said the judges, are that, “the test’s reliability depends on the number of cycles used’’ and that “the test’s reliability depends on the viral load present.’’ In other words, there are simply too many unknowns surrounding PCR testing.
Read more: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/507937-covid-pcr-test-fail/
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