Welcome to Orlando’s Walt Disney World resort, where, come July the so-called happiest place on earth will transform into the strictest for players, coaches and other league personnel on the inside of the NBA’s long-awaited return.

The nearly 200 combined pages of documents sent Tuesday from the National Basketball Players Assn. to its members, and the NBA to its teams, spelled out for the first time, and in exhaustive detail, what life will look like in the quarantined bubble. The NBA was already governed by a weighty, dryly written tome — its collective bargaining agreement — just as many players already abide by a proven game-day routine.

The new rules address the unprecedented circumstances the league and its players face as they prepare to resume play amid the coronavirus pandemic. It is no abstract threat. In Orange County, where Disney World sits, 5% of people tested during the week of June 7 were positive — more than double the positive percentage from a week before.

The rules in place to keep players safe will require them to create new habits. - L.A. Times

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“El 23 de julio, mi mamá fue internada por segunda vez y, al día  siguiente, la doctora que la atiende me informó que se volvió a caer; a  partir de ahí, pedí una videollamada. Cuando la vi, estaba llena de  moretones” - El Digital de Argentina

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In 2018, then-Defense Secretary James Mattis issued a memo calling for commanding officers to flex their Uniform Code of Military Justice muscle, rather than falling back on administrative and non-judicial punishments to handle misconduct.

His letter wasn’t just about sexual assaults, but it underscored a key aspect of tackling the issue.

Lawmakers, notably Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, have in recent years called for sexual assault prosecutions to be taken out of the chain of command, arguing that COs have proven that they lack the will or the understanding to properly adjudicate sexual assaults.

Criminal action, one metric to show how the military is handling the issue, was largely stagnant in 2019.

Of 3,716 reports investigated in last year, 63 percent of them — or 2,339 cases — were recommended for commander action, according to the report. Of those, commanding officers took action on 1,629 cases, including 794 courts-martial, 360 non-judicial punishments and 474 adverse administration actions, including involuntary discharge from the service.

While the number of courts-martial and NJPs stayed about steady from 2018, to 2019, Galbreath said, administrative actions rose ― indicating that in some cases, commanders were choosing to either slap perpetrators on the wrist or unload them from the service, rather than take harsher action.

"I am tired of the statement I get over and over from the chain of command: ‘We got this, Ma’am. We got this,’ " Gillibrand told Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville in May 2019, after reading DoD’s 2018 SAPR report. “You don’t have it. You’re failing us. The trajectories of every measurable are going in the wrong direction.” - Military News

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According to a widely-cited coronavirus pandemic model used by the White House, if almost everyone wears a mask in public over the next few months, tens of thousands of lives could be saved in the United States. - FOX26 Houston

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Ojeda Ríos fue asesinado el 23 de septiembre de 2005 por el FBI en la localidad puertorriqueña de Hormigueros. Después de rodear su casa, los agentes del FBI abrieron fuego contra Ojeda, quien estuvo herido por varias horas, mientras los agentes observaban. Finalmente murió desangrado, en un evento que recorrió el mundo entero, pues los medios se encontraban presentes en el operativo. Su muerte causó protestas por parte de los partidos Popular Democrático (PPD) e Independentista Puertorriqueño (PIP).

El secretario de Justicia de Puerto Rico radicó demandas en la corte federal para obligar al FBI a proveer toda la información relacionada al operativo, pero el juez federal a cargo del caso denegó el pedido. - Periodico El Nuevo Dia

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This year has been very tough, I believe, for everyone with few exceptions.  Between the pandemic and the geniuses of political inadequacy anybody can snap.  But at least this week an old friend arrives to give us at least some relief.  Let's talk about that friend on this edition of Real Life is Fake.  Who's the friend?  Sports!

Este anio ha sido uno dificil creo que para todo el mundo con pocas excepciones.  Entre la pandemia y los genios de la ineficiencia politica cualquiera enloquece.  Pero esta semana un viejo amigo llega a por lo meos darnos un poco de alivio.  Hablemos de ese amigo en esta edicion de Real Life is Fake, La Vida Real es Falsa.  Cual es el amigo?  El deporte  

Que hubiese pasado si en lugar de Ron DeSantis el gobernador elegido hubiese sido Andrew Gillium?  Hablemos de eso y del precio que se paga por rendir demasiada pleitesia exagerada a una figura publica politica, o "besarle el trasero" a un padre politico porque quizas piensa la persona que es lo mejor para el / ella.  Escuchas Real Life is Fake, La Vida Real es Falsa

"It seems like we got an empathy shortage, an empathy deficit. More serious than the federal budget deficit.  We've become so cynical that it almost seems naive to believe that we can understand each other across the gulf of race, or class or region or religion...

An empathy shortage. That's what the principle of empathy does, its calls us all to task.  The heartless conservative, the patronizing liberal, the powerful and the powerless. The oppressed and the oppressor. No one is exempt from finding common ground, because when no one is exempt it forces all of us to examine our own actions, our own belief systems.  It shakes us out of our complacency and protects us from our own blindness our own self-righteousness. Our own fanaticism." - Barack Obama

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"Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator, insisted to the Trump administration that the coronavirus pandemic would soon slow down, comparing the U.S. to Italy and its experience with the virus, The New York Times revealed in a damning report published Saturday.

Birx believed that the U.S. would see a peak in cases, followed by a slow and lasting decline, just as Italy has seen, the Times reported.

Her optimistic take on models assessing the virus apparently encouraged President Donald Trump to put pressure on states to relax regulations meant to slow the spread of the virus in mid-April, the Times reported.

The paper interviewed more than two dozen administration officials and reviewed emails and documents to uncover how the White House handled its response to the spread of COVID-19.

Birx reportedly began describing the government’s response to the pandemic as “putting out the embers,” and the White House task force was convinced that another surge in infections wouldn’t happen until the fall, senior administration officials told the Times.

But Birx’s predictions were wrong." - Huffpost

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