| Test: Is it worth driving to see?
As someone who never watched "The Sopranos," here is my interpretation of the series finale in which the TV screen simply went dark. It did not represent Tony Soprano's death; rather it represented the time killed — a whopping 86 hours, not counting reruns — by regular viewers over the past six seasons. Imagine what else could be accomplished in those 86 hours. And that is just one TV show. It is estimated the average American watches 42 hours of TV a week! If you add up that time for an entire year, it is beyond depressing. But I am not here to preach that everyone should throw their TV sets into the garbage, although my good friend and mentor, Wayne Bryan, once literally tossed his twin sons's video-game console into the barranca behind their Camarillo home. He feels the same about TV.
Levin counters Senate fuel proposal; automakers return to Capitol ...
WASHINGTON -- Michigan Sen. Carl Levin released the text of his 46-page compromise proposal to increase fuel economy mandates, while auto industry officials prepared to mount a grassroots effort to support his proposal. On Tuesday, General Motors Corp. vice president of sales, Mark LaNeve, will be on Capitol Hill with GM dealers. Chrysler Group will muster 14 plant executives, including managers from Warren and Sterling Heights. Ford Motor Co. is bringing in Mark Fields, its president of the Americas. The amendment, if adopted, would raise fuel efficiency standards to a minimum of 36 miles per gallon for passenger cars by 2025 and 30 mpg for light trucks by 2022. It is sponsored by Sens. Levin, Mark Pryor D-Ark. and Kit Bond, R-Mo. Automakers currently must achieve 27.5 mpg for passenger cars and 22 mpg for light trucks.
Paternity Statutes Do Not Apply to Wrongful Death Actions ...
It seems that, in addition to proving wrongful death, when the decedent is an unborn child, you had better be able to prove paternity as well. In the case, Aranda v. Cardenas, both the mother and her unborn child were apparently subject to fatal medical malpractice. The Defendants, however, disputed whether the unborn child's father was indeed the child's father, raising the affirmative defense of capacity to sue. The Defendants were able to pursued the trial court to apply very harsh statutory presumptions and other requirements imposed by the paternity statutes, A.R.S. §§ 25-801 through 25-818, to the paternity dispute in the wrongful death case. On appeal, the Plaintiff argued that the trial court erred in referring to the paternity statutes and in requiring deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) tests to prove paternity.
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