Princess Turandot
Princess Turandot's JournalThere are 16 decisions pending on argued cases...
The first opinion will be released at 10AM. There may be more than one opinion released, but there could also be only one.
Status of decisions:
Graphic is from https://www.scotusblog.com, the best source of information on SCOTUS activities.
A quick summary of outstanding and decided cases by month: https://www.scotusblog.com/statistics/
The cases that they consider to be the most high profile are listed in red. There are 8 of those still undecided.
Nashville Police have arrested a 25 year man for setting fire to the city's historic courthouse..
The fire occurred on Saturday night.
A civil rights protester? Sure.. More like a friggin' incel.
"Specialized Investigations Division detectives & SWAT officers moments ago arrested Wesley Somers, 25, on charges of felony arson, vandalism, & disorderly conduct for setting fire to Nashville's Historic Courthouse Saturday night."
https://twitter.com/MNPDNashville/status/1267264305961066500
Andrew Cuomo for the #HowAreYouReallyChallenge
This is a mental health awareness initiative on social media, being promoted by fashion designer Kenneth Cole and the Mental Health Coalition.
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1261703387172581376
Chris (the younger) Cuomo's interview with Tony Fauci tonight..
Two tangential remarks: Fauci has apparently had a long term relationship with the Cuomos, going back 35 years. And he still has a Brooklyn accent.
I saw his next HR: Bottom of the 1st, on Opening Day 1978, the Reggie Bar game!
For the record, I ate mine. 
The Game 6 blasts:
It might be called a success if you don't care about all of the deaths...
and I suspect that Mr Tegnell doesn't really care all that much, given some of his comments along the way. (He rationalized the deaths being as high as they were at one point because the figures included nursing home deaths. Those pesky old people.)
Right now, Sweden's deaths per 1 million of their population is 152. That is the 11th highest number in the world, per worldometers. (The US number is 121.) They are in the 21st position in the world in terms of the number of cases.
Compared to their immediate neighbors as of April 19, 2020, 18:38 GMT:
Cases - Deaths - Deaths per 1 million
Denmark 7,242 - 346 - 61
Finland 3,681 - 90 - 17
Norway 7,036 - 164 - 30
Sweden 13,822 - 1,511 - 152
Gov Pritzger joins Wellington the penguin (and pals) for a social distancing PSA at Shedd Aquarium
During the coronavirus lockdown, Chicago's Shedd Aquarium has been taking some of their penguins on excursions to other exhibits in the place. They post videos of the trips, in which Wellington, a rockhopper penguin is the breakout star. So the governor decided to recruit him and a few of his roommates in a good cause:
https://twitter.com/GovPritzker/status/1251140888505483264
Wellington looks like he's in a permanent state of 'whoa, we're not in Kansas anymore' during these trips!
https://twitter.com/shedd_aquarium/status/1248052004225724416
https://twitter.com/shedd_aquarium/status/1246501097763753984
https://twitter.com/shedd_aquarium/status/1250873915938951170
https://twitter.com/shedd_aquarium/status/1249036288428253185
https://twitter.com/shedd_aquarium/status/1249815936779108358
I'll give this a try..
(Note: For the sake of simplicity, assume that this relates to someone who is entitled to receive (and keep) the full stimulus amount.)
The money that is being sent out relates to a federal action taken in 2020, which they need to put on the books, so to speak. They're going to do that through the income tax filing process for 2020, which actually takes place next year.
So, a tax credit will need to be shown for this item when you do your 2020 tax return, that you file in April 2021, because it was revenue that you received that year. But since you already received this specific cash in 2020, this new tax credit won't generate any more cash being sent to you in 2021 to settle up your 2020 tax return. They don't want people surprised by that. I think that's all this means.
FYI As far as I can tell from looking the tweet referenced, those screenshots are not coming from any federal government documentation. I saw at least 2 different sources being suggested in the tweet replies. So the paraphrasing by the source may be the problem.
NYC (sadly) has an extensive contingency plan for this...
This is a bit sensationalistic, I expect.
'Morgues' are referring to the official facilities of the NYC Medical Examiner (I assume). However, each hospital also has facilities for the deceased because of normal transportation delays, and because in the normal course of matters, only certain cases need to be sent to the ME. The hospital facilities thus will also be used.
The main ME facility in Manhattan is part of a half-mile 11-block long stretch of private, public and VA health facilities between First Avenue and the East River. If it comes to it, they have quite a bit of room for refrigeration trucks on the side streets; that's what they did post 9/11.
This is just a conjecture on my part, but given the uncertainty around the virus, concerns about infection control will be the challenge here, from the hospital mortuary to the funeral directors/morticians. I read that in China by decree of the government most of the deceased were cremated as quickly as possible, without any ceremony/funeral attended by family members. I don't see that happening here.
The Army Corp of Engineers has begun the installation of 4 FEMA emergency hospitals in NYC's Javits
Convention Center. Each hospital has 250 beds, and is 40,000 sq ft in size, so it will provide 1,000 beds in total. They will be built on the Center's main exhibit floor, which per Wikipedia is 840,000 sq ft. (There will also be 320 federal staff coming along, although I'm not quite sure what they'll be doing.) They're also considering the addition of another 1,000 beds which would be used for patients who need a less intensive level of care. They hope to have the initial facilities running within 10 days.
In addition, the ACE will be erecting 3 field hospitals inside of other buildings in the NYC area.
Governor Cuomo provided information on the work here:
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1242181379015794689
If the video below shows only a black box, clicking on that will take you to it on Periscope.
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1242144891032895488
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