A Few Reads For Today

 Gisele Pelicot not should have just been France's "Personality of the Year."  She should have made Time's Person of the Year.

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There will be a White House signing ceremony on Monday when President Biden signs H.R. 82, into law, which repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset.

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Obituary:  Wayne Osmond, 73, a member of the Osmond Family of singers/musicians, died yesterday after complications from a stroke.   According to the linked article, Wayne had suffered from numerous health issues over the years.

He was the fourth of nine children.

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Wayne, who was the fourth of nine kids, sang in a barbershop quartet with his older brother Alan and younger brothers Merrill and Jay. They first formed in 1958 for their Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints congregation in Ogden, Utah.

In 1961, the Osmond brothers were discovered singing at Disneyland and went on to become regulars on The Andy Williams Show. Brothers Donny and Jimmy eventually joined, as well as sister Marie. In 1971, the group reached the height of their fame after the release of "One Bad Apple." The song spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 100.

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Another obituary:  Swiss socialite Jocelyn Wildensteen passed away in Paris on New Year's Eve.  She was 84 years old.  She was known for her extreme cosmetic surgery on her face, which unfortunately looked grotesque on her.

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Wildenstein's cause of death was not immediately known.

But Klein told the outlets his late partner had phlebitis, a condition the Mayo Clinic describes as a blood clot to form and block one or more veins, often in the legs.

"Because of her phlebitis, the legs were very, very swollen, and the blood was blocked, and there was no oxygen in the brain," he told the outlet. "And we were having a nap and when I wake up, I said, 'Jocelyn, we have to wake up, we have to get dressed,' and she was cold and she was dead."