The same as the weekday edition.
Saturday, October 10, 2020
Friday, October 9, 2020
Thursday, October 8, 2020
13-year-old spreads COVID-19 to 11 family members on vacation, after negative test
Fourteen members of the family stayed together in a house for three weeks, per the CDC. One member, a teenager, had COVID-19 and infected 11 others.
 |
| A CDC report published Monday shows how one teenager who tested negative for COVID-19 infected 11 of her family members, leading to an outbreak involving four states.TODAY Illustration / Getty Images |
A COVID-19 outbreak across four states that has infected at least 11 people was started by a 13-year-old girl who spread the coronavirus during a family vacation, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The data contributes to the "increasing evidence that children and adolescents can efficiently transmit SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes (COVID-19)," the CDC said in the report. It also serves as a warning for families considering traveling and staying under the same roof this the holiday season.
Read more: https://www.today.com/health/kids-transmit-coronavirus-13-year-old-infects-family-cdc-says-t193563
Taylor Swift endorses Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
Oh yeah, I consult with Taylor Swift before every vote I make.
'The fight continues': Family of Alvin Cole, third person fatally shot by Tosa Officer Joseph Mensah, still calls for firing, charges
From JSOnline:
Ashley LuthernEddie Morales
Ashley LuthernEddie Morales
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Wauwatosa police officer will not face criminal charges in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old outside Mayfair mall, but his job is at risk after an independent investigator recommended he be fired.
Officer Joseph Mensah acted in self-defense when he shot and killed Alvin Cole in the Mayfair mall parking lot, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm said Wednesday.
The decision marked the third time Chisholm has cleared Mensah in an on-duty fatal shooting, while Wauwatosa readied for possible protests and unrest Wednesday night and set a 7 p.m. curfew through Monday. Soon after the announcement, more than 100 protesters marched onto the I-94 freeway during rush hour.
In the last five years, Mensah has killed three people — Cole in February, Jay Anderson Jr. in 2016 and Antonio Gonzales in 2015. Mensah also did not face any internal discipline in those earlier two shootings.
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Monday, October 5, 2020
City of Racine settles for $270,000 years after police killed three dogs
From The Journal Times.com:
 |
Kurt Hanson points to the part of his front yard where his dog was shot on Nov. 1, 2014. The City of Racine has now settled to pay $270,000 for the police killings of two dogs: Hanson's Angel in 2014 and a dog belonging to Melissa Hernandez in April 2015. |
RACINE — It was the morning of April 28, 2015. As Melissa Hernandez remembers that morning, she woke up, checked on her three sleeping elementary-aged children, went near her front door where one of her two dogs was sleeping on his dog bed. She gave the dog a kiss on the head and went into the bathroom to get ready for work.
The next thing she heard was a gunshot.
Hernandez said she and her other dog went to the front door to see what was happening. According to the complaint, Racine SWAT Detective Joe Villalobos had shot her first dog and then immediately shot the second dog.
Both dogs died.
That was more than five years ago. Last month, a $270,000 settlement was approved by the Racine City Council in response to two separate incidents where Racine Police killed dogs, including Hernandez’s case.
The settlement was discussed in closed session last month and approved without public discussion.
The Journal Times submitted a records request for a copy of the settlement regarding Hernandez’s case and the case of Kurt Hanson, and any complaints filed on their behalf. A response to that request was received Wednesday.
The complaint was sent to the city by attorneys Jeff Scott Olson and Andrea J. Farrell on behalf of Hernandez and Hanson, but was never filed in court due to the settlement. Farrell told The Journal Times in an email that both cases were included because, “they had claims that arose from the same practice/policy of the Racine PD.”
There is no personal connection between Hanson and Hernandez laid out in the claim, but they both know what it’s like to have a beloved family pet killed by law enforcement.
The complaint alleges that the Police Department changed its policies under the leadership of Police Chief Art Howell, leading to the deaths of those beloved canines.
Howell, in a statement to The Journal Times, vehemently denied that any policy changes leading to increased force against animals were put in place since he became chief. He added, regarding the lawsuit, that “any communication that asserts that Racine Police Department practices or policies initiated under my administration were unconstitutional, is not only false, but libelous in nature.”
Kenosha Riot Documentary
From Racine County Corruption:
Kenosha Riot Documentary
See how Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley and Deputy District Attorney Thomas Binger engaged in prosecutorial misconduct, wrongly rushed to charge Kyle Rittenhouse without providing equal protection of the law, and ignored criminal misconduct by aggressors involved in the riots
Click below for video:
Got to love our worthless D.A.'s
From: http://racinecountycorruption.blogspot.com/2020/10/kenosha-riot-documentary-see-how.html
Saturday, October 3, 2020
The Hubble Telescope caught a supernova outshining every star in its galaxy
 |
| ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess and |
The Hubble Space Telescope got a peak at one of the most awesome light shows in the universe, catching a supernova that outshone every star in its galaxy. It observed the exploding star over the course of a year, watching it burn with the radiance of 5 billion suns before gradually dwindling away. The event provides a rare time-lapse of a supernova and will help astronomers more accurately measure the distances to far-flung galaxies.
Known as SN2018gv, the supernova was first spotted in mid-January of 2018 at the edge of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525, about 70 million light years from Earth. It’s a Type Ia supernova, meaning it originates from a binary white dwarf star that’s sucking in matter from its companion star.
Once it takes in material equivalent to about 1.44 times the mass of our Sun, it gets hot enough to ignite carbon fusion and trigger a thermonuclear runaway process. That leads to a violent explosion that can eject matter at up to 6 percent the speed of light and cause a peak brightness of 5 billion times that of the Sun.
Scientists know fairly precisely how much light a type Ia supernova produces, so they can use them as a “standard candle” to gauge distance. By comparing the theoretical with the observed brightness, they can accurately calculate the distance to the supernova and its accompanying galaxy. That in turn adds more data to calculate the Hubble constant, or rate of the universe’s expansion.
When seen next to NGC 2525, the supernova shone more brightly than any other stars in that galaxy. However, the explosion dimmed quickly as it ran out of fuel. “When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does in several billion years, you know it's not going to remain visible for long,” NASA wrote in a blog post.
Democratic challenger in North Carolina’s Senate race apologizes for romantic texts to a woman who is not his wife.
From The Nrw York Times.com:
 |
| Pool photo by Gerry Broome |
Cal Cunningham, the Democratic former state senator and Iraq war veteran who is locked in a closely watched and tight race to unseat Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, a Republican, apologized on Saturday after a report that he had exchanged romantic text messages with a woman who is not his wife.
Screenshots of some of the text messages first emerged on Thursday; the Cunningham campaign confirmed their authenticity on Saturday morning. In the messages, Mr. Cunningham, who is married and a father of two teenagers, calls the woman “historically sexy,” the two discuss kissing each other and Mr. Cunningham says he had dreamed about his time with the woman.
It is not clear when exactly the messages were exchanged, but they allude to “crazier fall schedules” and Mr. Cunningham writes that he is “nervous about the next 100 days.”
“I have hurt my family, disappointed my friends and am deeply sorry,” Mr. Cunningham said in a statement on Saturday morning. “The first step in repairing those relationships is taking complete responsibility, which I do.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/us/elections/cal-cunningham-thom-tillis.html
'Doesn't seem like a big deal': For a mask skeptic, news that Trump has COVID-19 doesn't change things
From JSOnline:
Bill GlauberNatalie Brophy
Bill GlauberNatalie Brophy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Bob Tarantino made up his mind on face masks long ago.
And the Sussex Realtor — who in April led a car caravan of business owners to a Madison rally protesting Gov. Tony Evers' coronavirus restrictions — isn't budging, even with the news that President Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID-19.
"My personal opinion is the masks will make everyone sicker, not from the COVID but from everything else that's going around in the winter," Tarantino said Friday.
To wear a mask or not continues to be a personal, political and cultural flash point in the country, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says face coverings can slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Friday, October 2, 2020
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
