Vegetarian Pot Pie — Nourish

Our meatless version of the classic chicken pot pie is flavorful and loaded with delicious and wholesome ingredients. You can make it your own by adding meat or tofu, more vegetables, richer dairy, and an assortment of spices.

Vegetarian Pot Pie — Nourish

Good and bad news on COVID-19 – ORANGE COUNTY TRIBUNE California

The number of cases – although still high – declined from 2,045 on Sunday to 1,964 on Monday. Deaths dropped from 15 to zero.

However, hospitalizations from COVID-19 rose from 848 to 877, and corona patients in intensive care units increased from 209 to 218.

Since the percentage of available ICU bed is the key “trigger” for the “stay at home” order that kicked in at midnight in the Southern California area, the other positive number is that available ICU beds in the region ticked up from 10.3 percent to 10.9. The goal is to have more than 15 percent.

Source: Good and bad news on COVID-19 – ORANGE COUNTY TRIBUNE

Remembering Rudy Martinez, the First Latino Killed in WWII at Pearl Harbor

It was 79 years ago today (Dec. 7) when 21-year-old Rudolph “Rudy” Machado Martinez, a Mexican-American sailor with the U.S. Navy, became the first Latino casualty of WWII when he died at Pearl Harbor. Martinez was one of approximately 500,000 Latinos who served their country in WWII.

Martinez, who was raised in San Diego, was stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii when his battleship, the USS Utah, was hit by two Japanese torpedoes. Fifty-eight men, including Martinez, died on the vessel when it sank that day.

Source: Remembering Rudy Martinez, the First Latino Killed in WWII at Pearl Harbor

Slovakia’s mass Covid testing cut infection rate by 60%, researchers say | World news | The Guardian

Mass testing for Covid brought down the infection rate in Slovakia by about 60% in one week, say UK researchers – but in combination with tough quarantine rules and other measures that are not being implemented in Liverpool or elsewhere in the UK. Slovakia guaranteed high take-up of the rapid tests by requiring employers not to allow people to work without a certificate to prove they had tested negative. Anybody who got a positive result had to go into quarantine with their family, but their full salary was paid for the 10 days of isolation.

Source: Slovakia’s mass Covid testing cut infection rate by 60%, researchers say | World news | The Guardian

VMI Removes Stonewall Jackson Statue

The statue’s removal is part of a series of major changes at the school, including the resignation of the institute’s longtime superintendent Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III and the call for an investigation by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, another VMI alumnus. Peay was replaced by Cedric Rims, the first Black superintendent to lead the school. VMI also pledged to create an office of diversity, eliminating its status as the lone state-supported college or university in Virginia without an office of inclusion or diversity.

VMI’s student body of 1,698 is six percent Black, according to the State Council of Higher Education For Virginia.

The school will need a lot more time to remove actual white supremacy from the campus.

Source: VMI Removes Stonewall Jackson Statue

On first day, L.A. County D.A. George Gascón eliminates bail – Los Angeles Times

Under the policy Gascón laid out, beginning Jan. 1, the use of cash bail will end in L.A. County. Instead, prosecutors will be directed to ask judges to release defendants while their cases move through the courts, except when someone is accused of homicide or a small number of other serious crimes. In those cases, prosecutors will seek to have defendants kept in custody. Source: On first day, L.A. County D.A. George Gascón eliminates bail – Los Angeles Times