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FSogol's JournalFormer suburban Minneapolis officer Kim Potter sentenced to 2 years in prison for killing Daunte Wri
Source: Washington Post
The former suburban Minneapolis police officer convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting Daunte Wright during a traffic stop last April was sentenced to two years in prison in a Hennepin County courtroom Friday.
A Hennepin County jury in late December found Kim Potter guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter for shooting Wright, a 20-year-old unarmed Black man in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center last April. Potter claimed she mistook her gun for a Taser when she fired on Wright to stop him from driving away.
“This case is highly unusual,” Judge Regina M. Chu said Friday, and called it “one of the saddest cases I’ve had in my 20 years on the bench.”
Ultimately, Chu said Potter made a “tragic mistake ... and ended up killing a young man.”
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/18/kim-potter-sentence/
Former NFL lineman now cooks at his kids' school cafeteria
Retired NFL offensive lineman Jared Veldheer was looking for a new challenge in Grand Rapids, Mich., last summer when he heard about a job opening. It was at his kids’ school, in the cafeteria.
The Catholic school needed someone to oversee cooking and serving lunch for about 260 students from preschool to eighth grade. The previous manager had quit, and the school wanted to line up somebody quickly because classes were to start in two weeks.
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He accepted the job at $15 an hour, a far cry from the millions he made in the NFL, including $29 million with the Arizona Cardinals. He did it for the experience and to help out, he said, not for the money. As soon as the cafeteria was renamed the SPA 68 Cafe after his NFL uniform number, students and parents said they right away saw a difference in the $3.50 lunch menu.
Slices of pizza with salty tomato sauce and greasy cheese were history, as were chicken nuggets, french fries and sugary desserts.
They had been replaced by smoked carnitas, mashed cauliflower, a salad bar and Korean beef bulgogi — a dish most of the kids had never tasted.
Whole story at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/01/14/nfl-jared-veldheer-cook-cafeteria/
Got my 4 free covid tests in the mail yesterday. Thanks Biden!
Here's the link to get yours. One (set of 4) per address.
https://special.usps.com/testkits
A priest and a rabbit walk into a blood bank.
The nurse asks the rabbit what his blood type is and the rabbit replies,
"I'm pretty sure I'm a typo."
USA, USA, USA! US sets global record for one million cases in a single day!
Um, congrats? 
The United States reported over one million new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, setting a global record for a single-day total as the ultra-transmissible omicron coronavirus variant continues its savage spread.
The daily high likely includes a backlog of cases from the holiday weekend. But with more people relying on at-home testing for identifying COVID-19 infections, the number is still probably an underrepresentation of recent cases.
Though cases are rising nationwide, the Eastern US is seeing the highest case rates and steepest increases. New York, New Jersey, and Washington, DC, have the top-three highest infection rates in the country. Louisiana, Maryland, and Alabama are reporting the largest increase in cases over the last two weeks.
The nationwide case tally for Monday is nearly double the country's previous record, set just days ago. The US reported over 1,017,000 cases Monday, beating out the daily total on December 30 of just over 585,000, according to data tracking from The New York Times. The current seven-day average of US cases is 486,658, up 239 percent over the past two weeks. The cumulative tally is over 56 million, the highest in the world.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/over-1-million-covid-cases-recorded-in-the-us-on-monday-a-global-record/
A Christmas Tree made with covid-19 empty vaccine vials.
https://twitter.com/ivonepita/status/1468765460653031428?s=20https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGIaZwmWUAAay51?format=jpg&name=900x900
Happy Feast of Saint Nicholas Day!
This is the day, St. Nicholas died, December 6, 346 and become a saint in 1807.
He was Bishop of Myra (Bishops’ robes are red) and was known for doing good deeds and was charitable, especially to children. His miracle was saving a pair of children from a butcher although some versions credit his with bringing the pair back from the dead.He is buried in the basilica in Bari, Italy.
He is usually depicted with a flowing white beard and red robes. In 12th century Russia, a holiday was created for him. The Feast of St. Nicholas was celebrated December 6 . His day promoted gift-giving and charity. He is the patron saint of Russia, the patron saint of sailors in Greece, and the patron saint of children and travelers in Belgium.
Question: Why do we make kids wait until age 16 to drive a car? Are cars dangerous?
Visiting Santa 2021
From Theo Moudakis, Toronto Star
https://images.thestar.com/yygfYqAks1-MbR-xS76pGBsmP1g=/1200x1154/smart/filters:cb(1637609906143)/
Two mystery photos and a 50-year search for the 'Donut Dollies' of the Vietnam War
Good story for Veteran's Day
In 1971, a 25-year-old high school science teacher named Jim Roberts found himself in a muddy hamlet 50 miles outside Saigon, a “wide spot in the road,” as he called it, where the long slog of the Vietnam War felt particularly endless and futile.
Roberts, the son and grandson of military men, had enlisted over the heated objections of his father, who feared he would never return alive to his small West Virginia hometown. For Roberts, an Army infantry 1st lieutenant, the Vietnam conflict had become a “lonely war.” Photos he took one day of two kind women he met during that tour have led him on a 50-year quest to find them and thank them for breathing a little joy into his life so long ago.
Roberts was part of a mobile advisory team, one of only five soldiers sent to Dong Xoai to live among displaced farmers and to train regional forces, assisting as observers and strategists when they went into the field to fight. He witnessed things so traumatizing that he still can’t talk about them five decades later.
“I don’t want to go back there and think about it,” Roberts, now 75, said in an interview. “We did what we had to do.”
Whole story here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/vietnam-mystery-photos-donut-dollies/2021/11/10/983727e4-3ca9-11ec-a493-51b0252dea0c_story.html
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