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Frequent overcrowding in U.S. emergency departments
R. W. Derlet, John R Richards, Richard L Kravitz
General Medicine, Geriatrics, and Bioethics
Objective: To describe the definition, extent, and factors associated with overcrowding in emergency departments (EDs) in the United States as perceived by ED directors. Methods: Surveys were mailed to a random sample of EDs in all 50 states. Questions included ED census, frequency, impact, and determination of overcrowding. Respondents were asked to rank perceived causes using a five-point Likert scale. Results: Of 836 directors surveyed, 575 (69%) responded, and 525 (91%) reported overcrowding as a problem. Common definitions of overcrowding (>70%) included: patients in hallways, all ED beds occupied, full waiting rooms >6 hours/ day, and acutely ill patients who wait >60 minutes to see a physician. Overcrowding situations were similar in academic EDs (94%) and private hospital EDs (91%). Emergency departments serving populations ≤250,000 had less severe overcrowding (87%) than EDs serving larger areas (96%). Overcrowding occurred most often several times per week (53%), but 39% of EDs reported daily overcrowding. On a 1-5 scale (±SD), causes of overcrowding included high patient acuity (4.3 ± 0.9), hospital bed shortage (4.2 ± 1.1), high ED patient volume (3.8 ± 1.2), radiology and lab delays (3.3 ± 1.2), and insufficient ED space (3.3 ± 1.3). Thirty-three percent reported that a few patients had actual poor outcomes as a result of overcrowding. Conclusions: Episodic, but frequent, overcrowding is a significant problem in academic, county, and private hospital EDs in urban and rural settings. Its causes are complex and multifactorial.
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Derlet, R. W., Richards, J. R., & Kravitz, R. L. (2001). Frequent overcrowding in U.S. emergency departments. Academic Emergency Medicine, 8(2), 151-155.
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The Spanish actress and Goya-winner Emma Suarez presents this year's EURIMAGES Co-Production Award. The prize, acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in fostering international exchange, goes to Konstantinos Kontovrakis and Giorgos Karnavas of Heretic Productions in Athens. The Greek producers thank the academy and dedicate their award to everybody they work with.


Quality and product safety are essential in the milk powder industry. Different designs of packaging are used within the milk powder industry to ensure the quality of the milk powder.
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For a well-known premium milk powder producer, there is now a customized solution for milk powder in the form of a box. Within 30 seconds the package is tested non-destructive for leaks and 'holes' down to 10 micron (one hundredth of a millimeter). This clean, dry and fast way of testing can be seen in the video above.
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During her years as a clinician, Boghuma Titanji, MD, MSc, PhD, keynote speaker at the 2015 Advancing Ethical Research Conference (AER15), struggled to deal with cases of preventable, infectious diseases, particularly in children. Many times, the parents could not afford treatment and, as a result, the child died. During her interview for People and Perspectives, she talks about one such instance where a child with severe malaria died in her arms after the parents were unable to afford a blood transfusion. This experience, and others like it, helped Dr. Titanji understand that she wanted to be involved in the infectious disease field. Rather than become desensitized to the problem, she chose to contribute to the solutions.
"Some people get really jaded and completely desensitized, and I wouldn't judge them because you have to make a decision on how you are going to cope with this. You can choose to be that person who becomes a cynic…or you can choose to be that person who tries to…cause a chain reaction and start changing the way things happen in that setting."
Dr. Titanji oriented her career to combine research and clinical practice because she wanted to have a broader impact. She wanted to be able to stop the overarching problems as opposed to treating the ailments physicians might see on a daily basis.
"I find it more rewarding now to be in a role where I feel that I am beginning to contribute to the solutions…It moves me from that frustrated perspective where I'm just sitting in the clinic watching children come in and die because their parents can't afford blood transfusions or because they didn't sleep under a mosquito net and now they have malaria. All of these being treatable, preventable disease conditions."
Watch Dr. Titanji's full People and Perspectives interview, where she discusses her passion for making a difference in the challenging realm of international research.
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Q: addOnSuccesListener execution order problem, firebase storage I have a StorageReference element which stores a folder's reference from firebase and I loop through its elements in order to get every download link, but I don't understand why it's executed in this order. I've done something similar previously and it worked, but now for some reason, I don't understand why, it's not working as it should and why it jumps listeners this way.
private interface FirestoreCallback {
    void onCallback(List<Uri> uris);
}

public ArrayList<Uri> getAllDownloadURIs(final FirestoreCallback firestoreCallback) {
    StorageReference folderPath = ListVideoDates.storage.getReference((String) extra.getSerializable("folderPath"));
    System.out.println("FOLDER PATH: " + folderPath);

    final ArrayList<Uri> uris = new ArrayList<>();

    folderPath.listAll()
            .addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<ListResult>() {
                @Override
                public void onSuccess(ListResult listResult) {
                    for (StorageReference file : listResult.getItems()) {
                        file.getDownloadUrl().addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<Uri>() {
                            @Override
                            public void onSuccess(Uri uri) {
                                uris.add(uri);
                                System.out.println("Array inside onSucces2" + uris); // second
                                // here the array is printed as elements are
                                //inserted, but this listener is the last
                                //executed listener for some god damn reason

                            }
                        });
                    }
                   // firestoreCallback.onCallback(uris);
                }
            }).addOnSuccessListener(new OnSuccessListener<ListResult>() {
        @Override
        public void onSuccess(ListResult listResult) {
           // firestoreCallback.onCallback(uris);
            System.out.println("Array inside onSucces3" + uris); // first
        }
    });

Why the first listener executed is the second one and why then it jumps to the f "first" one? I've also tried to insert the callbacks in both locations ( commented above ) and it still doesn't work regardless of the listener order execution, it's still empty when I try to acces it with the method bellow.
public void setAllDownloadURIs() {
    getAllDownloadURIs(new FirestoreCallback() {
        @Override
        public void onCallback(List<Uri> uri) {
            uris = new ArrayList<>(uri);
            System.out.println("URIS inside onCallback: " + uris);
        }
    });
}

   FOLDER PATH: gs://***************************
W/StorageUtil: no auth token for request
I/System.out: URI inside setAllDownloadURIs: null
W/NetworkRequest: no auth token for request
I/System.out: Array inside onSucces3[]
W/StorageUtil: no auth token for request
W/NetworkRequest: no auth token for request
W/StorageUtil: no auth token for request
W/NetworkRequest: no auth token for request
W/StorageUtil: no auth token for request
W/StorageUtil: no auth token for request
W/NetworkRequest: no auth token for request
W/NetworkRequest: no auth token for request
I/System.out: Array inside onSucces2
I/System.out: Array inside onSucces2
I/System.out: Array inside onSucces2
I/System.out: Array inside onSucces2

And here i get 4 array outputs since there are 4 elements in the folder and they're printed as the program is inserting them into the array.

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Q: How to watch mocha-webpack tests results in mocha-test-explorer VS Code Extension? I'm working on a just created Vue cli project with TypeScript and unit testing.
I Know that Vue cli tests uses mocha-webpack to runt tests. And when I Type mocha-webpack on terminal, the tests runs ok.
But I would like to use an mocha-test-explorer, a VS Code extension for mocha testing. For a better programming experience.
I Installed the extension and configured like this:
"mochaExplorer.files": "tests/**/*.ts",
"mochaExplorer.require": "ts-node/register"

But I'm still not able to see the tests. test-explorer shows the fallowing output:
(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { import { expect } from 'chai'
                                                              ^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token import

I know that is because mocha is not loading files through webpack.
What should I do to see mocha-webpack tests in the mocha-test-explorer extension (or any other gui extension) for VSCode?


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Identification of syncytin-car-1, an endogenous retroviral envelope gene involved in placentation and conserved in Carnivora: a syncytin in a new superorder of placental mammals
Guillaume Cornelis1,
Odile Heidmann1,
Sybille Bernard-Stoecklin1,
Géraldine Véron2,
Karine Reynaud3,
Baptiste Mulot4,
Anne Dupressoír1 &
Thierry Heidmann1
A large fraction of vertebrate genomes is composed of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), which are remnants of ancient retroviral infections. In mammals, five retroviral envelope genes with a placenta-specific expression and a fusogenic activity, the syncytins, have been independently "captured" in primates, rodents and lagomorphs (which are all Euarchotonglires mammals) and conserved over more than 30 million years in a functional state. They are involved in the formation of the syncytiotrophoblast, and are necessary for placental development. Here we searched for syncytins in the Carnivora order that belongs to the Laurasiatheria, which diverged from the Euarchotonglires shortly after mammalian radiation around 100 million years ago.
Dog and cat genomes were screened for full-length retroviral envelope genes. Candidate genes were assayed for their placenta-specific expression by quantitative RT-PCR of RNAs isolated from a large set of tissues, and by in situ hybridization on placental tissue sections. Phylogenetic conservation was investigated by cloning and sequencing of the candidate genes in species representative of major Carnivora branches. Fusogenic activity was assayed by an ex vivo infectivity assay with viral pseudotypes.
4 and 7 retroviral envelope gene families were found in the dog and cat respectively. Among them, we identified an envelope gene shared by both species and specifically expressed in the placenta at the materno-fetal barrier, where syncytiotrophoblasts can be found. It is conserved at the same genomic locus in the 25 species tested, presents strong signature for purifying selection, as usually observed for a host cellular gene, and has conserved its fusogenic properties in all species. This gene presents all the characteristics of a bona fide syncytin gene.
We identified a sixth syncytin in the Carnivora order, syncytin-Car-1. It is the oldest syncytin identified to date, conserved for at least 70 million years, and the first one identified in the Laurasiatheria. Identification of this new syncytin in a major branch of eutherian mammals shows that syncytin gene capture is a very general process, which occurred in several branches during eutherian evolution. The carnivora placental structure is slightly different from that of primates, rodents and lagomorphs (endotheliochorial vs haemochorial), and characterization of the syncytins found in various species might help to understand the impact of these independently acquired elements on placental diversity. Study of syncytins brings new insights on the evolutionary relationship between ERVs and their host.
CNRS UMR 8122, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif 94805, France and Université Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay, France
Guillaume Cornelis, Odile Heidmann, Sybille Bernard-Stoecklin, Anne Dupressoír & Thierry Heidmann
Systématique et Evolution, CNRS UMR7205, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 75231, France
Géraldine Véron
INRA-ENVA UMR 1198, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaíre d'Alfort, Maísons-Alfort, 94700, France
Karine Reynaud
Zoo Parc de Beauval, St Aignan surcher, 41110, France
Baptiste Mulot
Guillaume Cornelis
Odile Heidmann
Sybille Bernard-Stoecklin
Anne Dupressoír
Thierry Heidmann
Correspondence to Guillaume Cornelis or Odile Heidmann.
Cornelis, G., Heidmann, O., Bernard-Stoecklin, S. et al. Identification of syncytin-car-1, an endogenous retroviral envelope gene involved in placentation and conserved in Carnivora: a syncytin in a new superorder of placental mammals. Retrovirology 8, P13 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-4690-8-S2-P13
Eutherian Mammal
Eutherian Evolution
Envelope Gene
Gene Capture
Viral Pseudotypes


One of the biggest mistakes you can make when planning to sell your business is not keeping the plan secret. Staff, customers, and sellers have built relationships with you, and many people don't like change. Rumours that ownership is changing hands, can have staff looking for new jobs, sellers renegotiating contracts, and customers looking elsewhere for your services. On top of this, your competitors may take actions that could weaken your position in the market. All of this can lower the value of your business.
You may wonder how people will know you're selling when you can't tell anyone, but it is possible as you start to market your business. Here are the steps you can take to maintain your confidentiality.
This starts when you create your summary document which details all the information a potential buyer needs to know. It's important to make this information accurate but vague. If your product is unique, don't include the name, but do talk about what it can do. If you own intellectual property, mention this, but don't talk in specifics. Don't mislead, though. Buyers will see everything when it's time for due diligence, and if they've received inaccurate information, it could halt the sale.
When it's time to advertise your business for sale, speak of the business in general terms. For example, Roger's Shoes would be listed as "A Successful High Street Retail Opportunity." Things like income, expenses, customers, and suppliers are listed in general terms. This allows potential buyers to decide if they're interested enough to reach out for further information.
This starts with pre-qualifying buyers. Make sure they're serious about buying, have the funds to purchase at your asking price, and are free from conflicts of interest. If they're qualified, it's time to release some more information. At this stage, secrecy should still be maintained, but you can go into more detail with the potential buyer.
Have the potential buyer sign a confidentiality agreement. This will stop them from approaching your staff, clients or suppliers, and keep them from discussing the sale with anyone else. As the buyer continues to be interested, or is ready to make an offer, more information can be released. It's possible to continue to maintain secrecy right through due diligence, depending on the nature of the business.
This may seem like a lot to remember and organise, and that's an accurate assessment. This is why hiring a broker is such a good idea. A broker has the necessary experience, and knows which words to use to make your business an attractive option, while not revealing anything crucial. They also know which questions to ask to sort the serious buyers from those who are just curious or can't afford to buy.
More than this, a broker has processes in place to ensure they keep confidentiality, meaning they won't miss a step or slip up and endanger the secrecy of your sale. Putting your trust in an expert lets you concentrate on running your business, and leaves the details of the sale in the hands of people who are working in business sales every day.
Don't make the mistake of underestimating the importance of confidentiality. If the wrong people discover you're planning to sell, the value of your business could plummet, or you could find yourself not able to sell at all. As soon as you start planning to sell, take steps to keep your confidentiality by limiting the people who know to your most trusted confidants. As you move forward with your plan, engage a broker who understands when to release information to potential buyers, and who can help you balance the conflicting needs of marketing and secrecy.


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Government could fall if Brexit deal fails, says Jeremy Hunt
The odds of Theresa May getting her Brexit deal through parliament are "looking challenging", Jeremy Hunt has said, adding that it was possible the government could collapse if this failed to happen.
Speaking as the prime minister was in Brussels, where EU leaders agreed the Brexit plan, the foreign secretary declined to predict whether the proposals would make the UK better off, saying only that it "mitigates most of the negative impacts" of leaving the EU.
Hunt was the second cabinet minister to make such a statement on on Sunday, with the communities secretary, James Brokenshire, also refusing to assert that he believed the plan would be better for the UK than staying in the EU.
Speaking on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show, Hunt urged his fellow Conservative MPs to back the deal, saying it was the best that could be expected for now.
"I think the truth is there are compromises in this deal," he said. "But my colleagues in the House of Commons will be looking at this and they will say, we have got between 70% and 80% of what we want, and the question is: can this be a staging post to getting 100% of what we want, particularly being an independent trading nation, a sovereign Britain ploughing our furrow in the world?"
But Hunt accepted that getting the deal approved by the Commons looked problematic. He said: "That's a very difficult question, and the arithmetic at the moment is looking challenging. But a lot can change over the next two weeks.
I think what all of my colleagues will be doing is thinking what is in the national interest." Asked if this meant it was possible May's government could collapse, Hunt did not dismiss the idea. Read more
Related news: Brexit: 24 hours to save EU summit as negotiators scramble to break deadlock. Read more


Through an Illinois Biodiversity Field Trip grant, all Elementary South first-grade students took a field trip to the Heller Nature Center in Highland Park on April 25. Several guides took groups on tours through the woods on a wood chip trail. By using clues to solve riddles, the students learned about the four basic components that make up a habitat: water, shelter, food and space and how they work together as a system. They carefully rolled over logs to peer at animal homes. They played a game that helped them understand the forest food chain. They asked lots of questions and it was clear they had a great time with the woods as their classroom. For many years, first-grade teacher Ms. Bleck has obtained this grant for an annual field trip. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources, the Independence Tube Corporation, the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Foundation, the D. F. and M. T. Grohne Family Foundation and the Illinois Conservation Foundation are sponsors of the grant program.


We all are familiar with Assassin's Creed gaming series. The credits goes to Ubisoft, the creators of the Assassin's Creed for its game play, different civilizations and the wars between the Templars and Assassins in all of its series. Now one of the most successful games of all time is going to be the best video game movie.
Director Justin Kurzel and his cast of the movie are talented and hard workers. Assassin's creed movie can be interesting than the movies like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. These movies were not very successful because of its source material which offered very little story work with the original games.
Assassin's Creed will be the best fantasy adventure Sci-fi movie in which hero Michael Fassbender will travel back to time using time machine Animus (as featured in the game) and discover his ancestor's secret deadly secret society "Assassins". The release date of the Assassin's Creed movie is 21 December, 2016.


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Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas is You' tops Hot 100 list
by: Nicholas Erebia
BELLEVUE, WA – SEPTEMBER 06: Global Icon Mariah Carey Announces Mariah Carey Christmas Factory During The Grand Opening Of Sugar Factory American Brasserie on September 6, 2017 in Bellevue, Washington. (Photo by Mat Hayward/Getty Images for Sugar Factory American Brasserie)
(WIAT) — Christmas came early for Mariah Carey. For the first time, "All I Want for Christmas is You" is number on the Billboards Hot 100 list.
Carey's album "Merry Christmas" hit the shelves back in 1994. Since then, the highest any of her Christmas songs have been to the top of the list was back in Dec. 2017, where the same song was ranked third.
Carey isn't the only one celebrating this achievement. Fans of the singer are showing their support over on Twitter.
I'm crying!!!! She did it!! pic.twitter.com/LkxIBfp2Uu
— Phenomenal! (@WeWantThemNow) December 16, 2019
LIVING LEGEND! SHE DESERVES THIS MOMENT pic.twitter.com/H2TQG9RNZs
— ⚓ (@deardesperad0) December 16, 2019
This is only the second holiday-themed song to take the crown for the Hot 100 list. The first song to have the No. 1 spot was "The Chipmunk Song" by Alvin & the Chipmunks back in 1968.
As for Carey, this marks her 19th song to place first on the list. The last time she made it to the top was back in 2008 with her song "Touch My Body." With this latest achievement, she is now one song away from tying with the Beatles for most No. 1 songs on the list.
What's your favorite song from her "Merry Christmas" album? Is there another holiday song you'd love to see at the top of the Hot 100 list? Let me know on Twitter: @NickErebia.


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Victor Tasho Houteff, född 2 mars 1885 i Raicovo, Bulgarien, död 5 februari 1955 i Waco, Texas, var en bulgariskfödd amerikansk religiös förkunnare, författare och grundare av den davidiska sjundedagsadventismen.

Han föddes i Raicovo i Bulgarien i en familj tillhörande den ortodoxa kyrkan. 1907 emigrerade Houteff och hans bror till USA.

Tio år senare anslöt Houteff sig till Adventkyrkan, inom vilken han under 1920-talet kom att verka som sabbatsskolelärare i Glendale, Kalifornien. Hans undervisning, som ofta innehöll apokalyptiska tolkningar av Uppenbarelseboken och Ellen G. Whites skrifter, tilldrog sig stort intresse och många åhörare. Församlingens ledning tog avstånd från hans läror och avskedade Houteff från hans uppdrag som sabbatsskolelärare.
Houteff och hans anhängare hyrde då en lokal tvärs över gatan, där han fortsatte sin undervisning.

1930 gav Houteff ut boken The Shepherd's Rod (Herdestaven) i vilken han sammanfattade sina läror. Han hävdade att sjundedagsadventisterna, efter grundaren Ellen G. White:s död, på flera punkter avlägsnat sig från den sanna läran och behövde reformeras. Houteff lärde till exempel att den stora skaran i vita kläder (Uppb. 7:9), kommer att bestå, inte bara av adventister utan av kristna från olika trossamfund. Han lärde också att människans frälsning endast berodde på rättfärdiggörelse genom tro, inte på sabbatsregler och liknande.

Detta vållade stort rabalder inom kyrkan, och den 19 februari 1934 hördes Houteff av ledningen för sjundedagsadventisternas Stillahavsunion. Efter fyra veckor offentliggjorde man sin dom, A Reply to The Shepherd's Rod, författad av professor O J Graf. Houteff stämplades som kättare och uteslöts ur kyrkan.

Houteff och hans anhängare (som kallades The Shepherd's Rod efter boken) flyttade till Waco i Texas där man upprättade ett högkvarter, Mount Carmel och startade förlaget Universal Publishing Association som spred Houteffs skrifter, bland annat månadsmagasinet The Symbolic Code. 1942 organiserade man sig under namnet General Association of Davidian Seventh-day Adventists (GADSA).

Houteff var fullt övertygad om att Kristus skulle återvända inom hans livstid och planerade att flytta samfundets högkvarter till Israel. Men han dog 1955 av hjärtproblem, utan att få se dessa drömmar uppfyllas. Efter Houteffs död kom hans rörelse att skakas av ledarstrider och splittras i flera grupper. Hans fru Florence Houteff förklarade först att Kristi återkomst skulle äga rum senast 1959, men när så inte skedde beslutade hon att upplösa GADSA.

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Cary Kennedy, Deputy Mayor and Chief Financial Officer for the City and County of Denver, will join community members and local public health officials at 9 a.m. on August 15 in signing an agreement to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic during the opening ceremony of the AIDS Walk Colorado at Cheesman Park. By signing on to the Paris Declaration agreement, Denver becomes the fourth North American city to join the Fast Track Cities Initiative to end the AIDS Epidemic by 2030.
Launched in Paris on World AIDS Day in 2014 led by the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (IAPAC), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), this global initiative aims to dramatically reduce new HIV infections and future AIDS-related deaths through increasing testing, treatment and education.
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From Vancouver To Sochi With Love
Posted on February 27, 2014 February 27, 2014 by Janelle Visser
Dear People of Sochi,
Hello, Bonjour, Privyet. I've been meaning to write you for awhile, but as the dust settles from the Sochi Olympics this seems like as good a time as any.
There is something that has been nagging at me since before the beginning of these games, and I'm sure it hasn't escaped your notice either.
Why is everyone so quick to pick on Sochi, on Russia?
The other day when Canadian Twitter was busy with #hardtotrashtalksweden and Sweden was busy with #hardtotrashcanada (and our lovely neighbours down in America, by the way, were busy doing just that), it occurred to me that trash-talking Russia has been one of the most popular pastimes during this entire tournament.
When Vancouver hosted the Olympics, we experienced a lot of the same tensions I imagine the people of Sochi experienced. We were proud to host the games, but frustrated by the social and economic injustices, overspending and mismanagement we saw from the Olympic committee and our other leaders. We were happy to poke fun at ourselves and criticize our politicians, but often felt unfairly targeted when misinformed and not-so-well-meaning outsiders chose to do so at our expense. Terrible traffic and dismal public transit systems? Welcome to our lives, tell our politicians and transportation companies to get with the program. Melting snow due to unseasonably warm temperatures in February? Crappy luck and totally not our fault, get over it.
Now, I know that Russia isn't perfect, and that there have been some very serious and legitimate concerns raised about Russia's hosting of the games. You probably know these problems much more intimately than I do, and it's not my intention to downplay or write off these issues. The thing is, there are concerns raised about every country's hosting of every major international event, sports-related or otherwise. Are the concerns about Russia more serious than those about previous hosts? Maybe, but it's natural for the citizens of a country, and concerned citizens of other countries, to try to draw attention to their causes when the world's gaze is turned towards them for a short time.
But when it comes to Sochi 2014, regardless of whether or not there were serious critiques to be made, it seems that the vast majority of criticisms lobbed at Russia over the interwebs were petty, unfair, hypocritical at times, and frankly shameful to those who lobbed them. I must confess I enjoyed watching the spoilt journalists whine about their less-than-five-star accommodations… until it got old after about five tweets.
But rarely did I hear one positive thing about the country that I visited in high school – my first time traveling outside of North America and without my family – and absolutely loved. Yes, Russia was different and the toilets were gross and the drivers were crazy and the police were scary. But Russia was also beautiful, and fascinating, and culturally rich; full of super friendly and interesting people who shared their homes with us, fed us, took care of us, and weren't dissuaded that we couldn't speak a word of their language and they couldn't speak a word of ours.
In short, what I really want to say to you today are two things. Thank you, and I'm sorry.
I'm sorry that we have been such jerks to you.
I'm sorry that we suck, and care more about getting retweets on Twitter than the fact that there are real people, people just like us, who deal with unclean and unsafe water every day of their lives.
I'm sorry that we have taken this opportunity to shine the spotlight on all of your faults for our own selfish amusement, rather than shining it on your wonders and charms and using it as a chance to learn more about your country that is, to most of us, largely still a mystery.
And thank you for hosting the world, putting on a show, and putting up with us.
Thank you for all the sacrifices you, as individuals of Sochi, have no doubt made.
Thank you for having a sense of humour in the end, as evidenced by your super classy response in the closing ceremonies to the world's totally classless mockery throughout.
And finally, congratulations. Russia rocked the 2014 Olympics, and while I know that the lack of a hockey medal may make all the rest of it seem futile (as a Canadian I understand this sentiment completely), the rest of your athletes still managed to dominate the podium. I was rooting for you, to be honest, not over my own team of course (although certainly over the Americans), but as a Vancouverite, because I know how great it feels to watch your team win on your own turf, and I wanted you to feel that too. I was happily satisfied to see you at the top of the medal table when all was said and done.
Mascot high five!
Janelle of Vancouver
p.s. They say it takes a multitude of positive comments to counter a single negative one. Here are a few more articles I have enjoyed that you might as well:
Why did the Sochi Olympics draw so much criticism? Safiah Chowdhury, at Al Jazeera, explores the criticisms of the Sochi Olympics, the motivations behind them, and questions if they have been unfairly criticised compared to other hosts.
#SochiProblems is more of an embarrassment for America than it is for Russia. Sarah Kaufman, at PolicyMic, implores journalists and twitterers to have more respect.
Sochi is not the problem. It's me. Becky Hansmeier at Converge Magazine realizes that her fasination with Sochi's problems is a mirror into herself.
Through fog of complaints, Sochi's light shines. Jim Heintz for the Associated Press highlights some of Sochi's good points.
8 Viral Sochi Olympic Photos That Are Total Lies. Matt Novak at Paleofuture exposes some of the lies that the #SochiProblems obsessed internet has latched on to.
Tags: Olympics, Open Letter, Russia, Sochi, Sochi 2014, Sochi Olympics, Sochi Problems, Vancouver Olympics, Winter OlympicsCategories: Culture
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great! end with happiness
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Well said! Enough Said!
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In the hands of an expert, a sophisticated and sensitive ultrasound test known as "fetal echocardiography" can detect heart problems in a fetus as early as four months after conception.
Doctors have an increasingly effective tool in their efforts to diagnose and treat congenital heart disease—the most common birth defect in the United States.
In the hands of an expert, the sophisticated and sensitive ultrasound test known as "fetal echocardiography" can detect heart problems in a fetus as early as four months after conception. That gives doctors time to prepare for an emergency situation at birth, or even treat some problems before birth.
University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital has Maternal Fetal Medicine experts with specialized training in fetal echocardiography and three pediatric cardiologists who offer this service: Shanthi Sivanandam, MD; Matthew Ambrose, MD; and Aura Sanchez, MD.
We spoke with Sanchez and asked her to tell us more about the test and its benefits.
If your obstetrician recommends the test, don't panic.
An obstetrician will recommend a fetal echocardiogram when he or she suspects a fetus may have a congenital heart defect, or because he or she detected an abnormal heart rate in a standard obstetric ultrasound. Congenital heart defects occur in about one out of every 100 births, Sanchez said.
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Learn more about our pediatric heart care services at University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital.
Doctors gain valuable insight from fetal echocardiography.
The test can detect a range of problems, including congenital heart defects, arrhythmias, cardiac tumors and abnormalities in the heart function, according to Sanchez Mejia. It allows a doctor to counsel the expecting parents, make arrangements for delivery at an appropriate medical center, make a plan for those fetuses requiring urgent interventions after birth or even treat fetal heart rhythm problems. Experts can use this test to evaluate the effect on the heart of non-cardiac disorders and determine whether further treatment is necessary.
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Unlike many medical procedures, there are no pre-test requirements.
The study can be done without the need for an empty stomach or a full bladder, Sanchez Mejia said. A specialized technician, known as a sonographer, performs the test, which takes roughly 45 minutes. The fetal cardiologist reviews all the images acquired and often takes additional ones. Once the scan is completed, he or she sits down with the parents and explains to them the findings of the scan and their implications.


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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) – Fayetteville police announced Monday that charges were upgraded for the suspects accused of killing a man who was found dead in the middle of a road in November.
Courtney McClanahan, 29, and Joseph Minacapelli, 30, are now charged with first-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and discharging a firearm into an occupied property.
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The text entry area is small to start, but you can enlarge it manually by hovering over the lower right corner with your mouse then clicking and dragging the corner. Little Pork Chop shows you a preview of your tweets on the fly in a window below the text entry area. WriteRack, by comparison, chops up your tweets into bits within the text box itself.
Personally, I prefer Little Pork Chop's approach since you can type in one area and see your changes reflected in another. If you don't like the site's division of tweets you can easily create your own by hitting the Enter key at the point where you'd like to end a tweet. This will automatically take all the text after the line break and auto-chop it into more tweets. You can keep on breaking up your tweets for better reading flow using this method.
Little Pork Chop also has a few extra features you can manage by clicking the settings cog on the left-hand side. Here you can set a specific hashtag to appear after every tweet, set a time interval between tweetstorm tweets, send your tweets in reverse chronological order, and get an RSS feed of your tweetstorm.
The pain with Little Pork Chop is that it's not a sign-up and go affair like WriteRack is. Instead, you first have to be approved by Winer by leaving a comment on this blog post on his site (Disqus registration required). He will then check you out and decide whether or not to approve you. Like WriteRack's requirement for your email address, Winer's whitelist approach is his way of deterring spammers from using the service.
It's not clear if Winer has set a user limit on how many people will be approved to use Little Pork Chop.
Creating a tweetstorm is not always a simple thing to do, but these two free tools make it much easier.


In the throes of labour, a Namibian woman was approached by a nurse who handed her a document to sign, saying the form would authorise a Caesarean section.
"I was in labour at the state hospital when a nurse showed me a paper and said I must sign to allow a Caesarean section," she told a court last week, speaking through an interpreter.
"I did not know this was also for sterilisation," said the woman, whose name is being protected by the court.
She only found out that she had been sterilised when she overheard two nurses discussing it in the hospital ward. Their reason was that she has HIV, which infects about 15 percent of Namibians between the ages of 15 and 49.
The dark courtroom fell silent as the 44-year-old woman recounted her horror at the discovery, following the birth of her seventh child five years ago.
She is among 16 women who are each suing the Namibian government for 1.2 million Namibian dollars (165,000 US dollars, 130,000 euros) for allegedly sterilising them without their consent because they are HIV-positive.
The case of the first three women is expected to wrap up this week, while the case of the other 13 will follow later.
It is the first such case in Africa. Testimony is expected to conclude Friday.
More than 40 women have suffered a similar experience, with their cases recorded and presented to the health ministry in August 2008 by legal aid groups and a women's AIDS organisation.
The incidents happened at three state hospitals - two in the capital Windhoek and one 700 kilometres (about 440 miles) north in Oshakati, the women say.
Court documents state that victims only found out that they could not bear children weeks after a Caesarean section.
The three women in court this week say the procedure violated their right to life, to privacy and to freedom from cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
"The law states that we should all be treated equally," said Veronica Kalambi of the Namibia Women's Health Network.
The Namibian government says it had conducted an investigation at state hospitals around the country and found that all the women had signed consent forms for sterilisation procedure.
"The investigation clearly established that all women who had had a Caesarean section as well as a sterilisation had signed the relevant consent forms before the operation was done," Health Minister Richard Kamwi told parliament before the trial.
Gynaecologist Matti Kimberg told the court that forms signed while the women were already in labour should not be considered valid.
"I would say (signing) a declaration to get sterilised while in labour is not correct," Kimberg said.
Priti Patel, AIDS programme manager at the Southern Africa Litigation Centre, who attended the court sessions in Windhoek last week says the victims' testimony in court showed they were now "very clear about what happened to them".
"The women were not aware of their right to say 'no' to sterilisation," Patel told AFP.


A series of illustrations for the Folio Society Competition 2015. The illustrations cover a range of three short ghost stories and also include a book cover design to tie them all together.
The brief was to create a series of illustrations for Rudyard Kipling's classic short story, The Elephant's Child. The brief specified a double page illustration, a single page illustration and a book cover design including the relevant text and blurb.
Illustration for Carhartt of the jacket worn by Matthew McConaughey in 'Interstellar'.
A reportage project based on a construction site in the heart of the Cotswolds. I spent most of the Autumn there, drawing and gaining a feel for the place and the people.
Book cover design for the Penguin Design Awards brief.
An image created as part of a book telling a Nordic folk tale of how Bear came to have their stumpy tails.
A reportage project based on a construction site in the heart of the Cotswolds. I spent most of the Autumn there, drawing and gaining a feel for the place and the people. The aim of the book I created was to give the reader a sense of the atmosphere.


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TEHRAN, Feb. 11 - Iran's president warned on Saturday that Iran could withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if international pressure increased over its nuclear program.
His threat was a significant escalation of the government's previous position that it would only stop complying with spot inspections of military installations and sites it has not declared to be part of its nuclear program. The warning also raised the specter that Iran was considering following a strategy set by North Korea three years ago.
In a speech to tens of thousand of demonstrators who had gathered to mark the 27th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also staked out a broader path of resistance if penalties are imposed against Iran.
Evoking the possibility of penalties and international ostracism, he insisted that the country would continue its nuclear activities and urged Iranians to brace for tough times.
"The Islamic Republic has continued its program within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the nonproliferation treaty," he said in the speech, which was broadcast live on state television. "But if we see that you want to use the NPT regulations to deprive us of our rights, know that the people will revise their policy in this regard."
"I ask our dear people to prepare themselves for a great struggle," he added, evoking the possibility of international penalties. "Fasten your seat belts and pull up your sleeves."
In interviews in recent days, American and European officials have said they have been looking for signs that Mr. Ahmadinejad's government might abandon the nonproliferation treaty.
American officials and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, have said that the treaty provision allowing countries to renounce it, with just 90 days' notice, constitutes a major flaw in the effort to keep nations from becoming nuclear powers.
That provision essentially allows nations to build up a civilian nuclear infrastructure under the protection of the treaty, and then convert it to military use as soon as the country abandons the treaty.
"It's the obvious hole in the treaty, and the Iranians may choose to exploit it," one senior American official said this week, before Mr. Ahmadinejad's speech. "From their perspective, the North Koreans didn't pay much of a price."
The Central Intelligence Agency has estimated that the North Koreans have produced fuel enough for six or more weapons since they left the treaty three years ago. But those are rough estimates, based more on the country's ability than knowledge of what they have produced, and it is unclear whether that fuel has been converted to weapons. Iran is further away from that ability.
In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, Robert Joseph, the State Department official in charge of fighting nuclear proliferation, said that "a nuclear-armed Iran with this leadership does represent an existential threat to the state of Israel."
"We ought to make very clear not only that we find that repugnant," Mr. Joseph said, "but that that has policy significance, that that hardens our view, that we and the entire international community must band together and prevent this regime from acquiring nuclear weapons."
But he said he had no clear idea of when Iran might obtain a weapon.
The governing board of the atomic energy agency passed a resolution this month to report Iran to the United Nations Security Council for possible penalties over its nuclear program. But the resolution gave Iran until March to halt its atomic research and development work.
On Thursday, Secretary General Kofi Annan also called on Iran to freeze those activities and pursue a proposal by Moscow to enrich Iranian uranium in Russia.
But in his speech, Mr. Ahmadinejad again discounted proposals by Europe and Russia that countries could sell enriched nuclear fuel to Iran rather than have the country produce it itself.
"According to international regulations, every country that sells aircraft to other countries is required to sell its spare parts as well," he said. "For 27 years you have refused to give us aircraft spare parts. How can we be sure that you will give us nuclear fuel?"
Iran immediately reduced its cooperation with the United Nations nuclear agency after the referral resolution, saying that it would end compliance with the nuclear treaty's Additional Protocol, which allows intrusive inspections of nuclear sites. The government also announced that it was preparing to resume the enriching of uranium, which it had suspended for more than two years.
But at the time, some Iranian officials said they would not leave the treaty, in part because they feared that would bolster the West's argument that Tehran was racing toward production of a weapon.
All of Iran's senior officials have emphasized the country's right to have a peaceful nuclear energy program. But on Saturday, statements by two senior Iranian figures continued to show that differences were emerging over how to handle international pressure.
At the same rally where the president called for complete resistance regardless of the cost, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who is head of the powerful Expediency Council, said that "instead of relying on strength, we must try to fix the situation wisely," the news agency ISNA reported.
A former speaker of Parliament, Mehdi Karroubi, told demonstrators that officials must refrain from "imprudent" policies and must try to adopt dialogue and act wisely.
In his speech at the rally, Mr. Ahmadinejad repeated his much-publicized claims that the Holocaust was a myth, and he made reference to the wave of demonstrations in the Arab world over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in some Western newspapers.
"In some European countries and in America insulting Prophet Muhammad is acceptable," he said. "But questioning the Holocaust and formation of the Zionist regime is a crime. This is a myth with which the Zionists have blackmailed other countries and carried out their crimes for 60 years in the occupied territories."
He continued: "The real Holocaust is happening in Palestine where the Zionists are killing Palestinians. If you are looking for the crimes of Holocaust, find them in Iraq."
Angry protesters attacked the Norwegian, Austrian and Danish Embassies in Tehran in recent days over the cartoons. They also attacked the British and the French Embassies on Thursday with homemade bombs and stones.
David E. Sanger contributed reporting from Washington for this article.


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First Author Publications:
Schreier, M. M., et al. (2014), Atmospheric parameters in a subtropical cloud regime transition derived by AIRS and MODIS: observed statistical variability compared to ERA-Interim, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 3573-3587, doi:10.5194/acp-14-3573-2014.
Schreier, M. M., et al. (2010), Radiance Comparisons of MODIS and AIRS Using Spatial Response Information, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 27, 1331-1342, doi:10.1175/2010JTECHA1424.1.
Co-Authored Publications:
Yue, Q., et al. (2019), Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Short-Term Cloud Feedback on Global and Local Interannual Climate Fluctuations from A-Train Observations, J. Climate, 32, 1875-1893, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0335.1.
Irion, F. W., et al. (2018), Single-footprint retrievals of temperature, water vapor and cloud properties from AIRS, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 971-995, doi:10.5194/amt-11-971-2018.
Kahn, B., et al. (2017), An A-train and MERRA view of cloud, thermodynamic, and dynamic variability within the subtropical marine boundary layer, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 9451-9468, doi:10.5194/acp-17-9451-2017.
Staten, P. W., et al. (2016), Subpixel Characterization of HIRS Spectral Radiances Using Cloud Properties from AVHRR, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 33, 1519-1538, doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0187.1.
Yue, Q., et al. (2016), Observation-Based Longwave Cloud Radiative Kernels Derived from the A-Train, J. Climate, 29, 2023-2040, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0257.1.
Kahn, B., et al. (2014), The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder version 6 cloud products, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 399-426, doi:10.5194/acp-14-399-2014.
Ou, S. S. C., et al. (2013), Retrieval of Cirrus Cloud Properties From the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder: The k -Coefficient Approach Using Cloud-Cleared Radiances as Input, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 51, 1010-1024, doi:10.1109/TGRS.2012.2205261.
Yue, Q., et al. (2013), Transitions of cloud-topped marine boundary layers characterized by AIRS, MODIS, and a large eddy simulation model, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 8598-8611, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50676.
Kahn, B., et al. (2011), Impacts of subpixel cloud heterogeneity on infrared thermodynamic phase assessment, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D20201, doi:10.1029/2011JD015774.
Nasiri, S. L., et al. (2011), Comparing MODIS and AIRS Infrared-Based Cloud Retrievals, J. Appl. Meteor. Climat., 50, 1057-1072, doi:10.1175/2010JAMC2603.1.
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Tips for getting more out of PayPal
Did you know it offers these other features for business?
Angela West (PC World (US online)) on 29 September, 2011 03:04
In the last 13 years, PayPal has expanded far beyond its initial growth spurt on auction Websites. According to its second-quarter results, the online payment service busted through the $1 billion-earnings mark and is processing more than $315 million a day in online payments.
PayPal has come up with services to match myriad business needs, and its fees are often much cheaper than those of a merchant account at a bank or with a credit card company for small businesses that do under a certain volume of sales.
Many small to medium-sized business owners rely on PayPal every day, but the service does more than let online shops and shoppers exchange funds, one transaction at a time. Here's a closer look at other ways to get more out of PayPal.
Use Subscription Billing and Recurring Payments
If your business or organization offers ongoing services, such as monthly charges to use your software, you already know about PayPal's Subscription Billing. This frees up bookkeeping time and makes the process of working with PayPal more seamless. Payments are automatic, so you can potentially retain more customers.
Use Recurring Payments for Layaway Billing
Recurring payments can also be a way of allowing clients to make smaller payments on a larger purchase, kind of like an online version of layaway. As any marketer knows, four payments of $19.99 sound a lot better to a potential customer than one payment of $100. Here is an example of one business that is using this feature for layaways. In this economy, every online business should be taking advantage of this.
Use a Virtual Terminal
If you don't want to commit to a debit or credit terminal just yet but still want to accept payments at trade shows, your PayPal account can serve as a virtual terminal that you can use from anywhere. There are no setup fees, minimum transaction amounts, or other charges traditionally associated with merchant credit card accounts. While this is handy, it doesn't handle debit, so it's only good if your business just pops it head into the retail space occasionally.
Handle Rebates and Commissions
If you have a commissioned sales force or are running an affiliate program, PayPal's Mass Payments system allows you to make related payments instantly and in international currencies. Fees are low, at 2 percent per payment to a maximum $1.25, so you won't spend a lot of money to send money.
PayPal for Nonprofits
PayPal offers widgets that allow your nonprofit to receive donations via your website or through Facebook. The widgets go further than acting as a payment gateway by acknowledging top contributors and showing how close your organization is to your campaign goal.
If you don't have your own website, PayPal has teamed up with Blackbaud to create BlackBaud Now, a simple way for a smaller nonprofit to receive donations via email. PayPal offers a special rate for nonprofits of 1.9 percent plus 30 cents per transaction for organizations with over $100,000 monthly volume and 2.2 percent plus 30 cents per transaction for organizations with less than $100,000 monthly volume. You must provide proof of non-profit status to receive the discounted rate.
Use PayPal Reporting Tools
Reporting is something that most of us only care about when it comes to accounting and sales software. Why would you bother doing it within PayPal? There are a couple of useful reports in PayPal that you can access while logged in through My Account, History, and then Reports.
Case Reports are extremely useful if you have experienced any chargebacks or have faced any payment disputes through PayPal. You'll see a record of all actions on the case here. Recurring Payments allow you to see who has set up a recurring payment through your site, so you can determine if you are close to having to ship out a product that you've offered through a layaway program. The other reports are typically items that you'll find in your accounting software, but if you are an accounting geek you can reconcile the numbers in both places.
PayPal Offers Content Resources, Too
PayPal's Merchant Learning Center offers useful articles, like this one on how to prevent shopping cart abandonment, and this one on how to position design elements in your website for better sales. There's even a book, "The PayPal Official Insider Guide to Growing Your Business", which discusses fraud protection, the proper use of PayPal reports, and tips for online marketing.
Get to Know PayPal's Security Policies
PayPal makes protecting itself from security threats a top priority. Despite this, the sheer volume of transactions going through PayPal will always make it a target for hackers. PayPal's buyer and seller protection policies do shield your organization from a certain amount of liability in the event of a breach, but doing business is never without risk. Not surprisingly, PayPal has a lot to say about how it's ensuring safety and security.
Look Out for a Facebook-PayPal Alliance?
Author Robert Scoble announced that PayPal and Facebook are about to get more tightly integrated, and it will be making the announcement at eBay's X.Commerce Innovate conference in mid-October. If he's right, and your company has a Facebook Page, this could lead to new opportunities.
Angela West dreams of opening a Fallout-themed pub featuring wait staff with Pip-Boys. She's written for big insurance companies, small wildlife control businesses, gourmet food chains, and more. Follow her on Twitter at @angelawest.
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Sylvester Oromoni: Interim DPP advice indicted Dowen College Staff- Police tells Coroner inquest
Posted on February 22, 2022 February 22, 2022 by arinze
The Coroner inquest into the controversial death of a 12-year-old student of the Dowen College student, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, continued on Monday, February 21, with a Chief Superintendent of Police, (CSP) Bamidele Olusegun, stating that some members of staff of Dowen College were indicted in the first legal advice issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Lagos State.
Channels TV reports that CSP Olusegun informed the court presided by Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri that he received a report from the DPP dated December 30, 2021, which was called interim legal advice recommended that the staff should be prosecuted for alleged negligence.
CSP Olusegun, who said he was serving with the homicide section of the Lagos State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Panti section in 2021 disclosed this while being cross-examined by Femi Falana, SAN.
Reading part of the interim report dated December 30, 2021, the witness said:
""There are facts that the students made series of reports of acts of bullying and intimidation against them to the teachers and house parents whose duties were to protect the children under their care."
Facts further reveal that most of the statements and reports were not seriously attended to but disregarded by the house parents. No punitive measures were imposed beyond the suspension of known bullies in the school.
The school does not have an adequate policy for addressing issues of bullying, stalking, and unacceptable behaviour by the seniors against the junior students.
The office intends to prosecute Mrs Celina Uduak, Valentine Igboekweze, Hammed Ayomo Bariyu, Adesanya Olusegun and Mr. Adeyemi and Dowen College, Lagos for the offence of Negligent Acts causing harm under Section 252 Criminal Law of Lagos 2015"
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The witness who narrated to the court the various steps he took to investigate the matter, also confirmed that under cross-examination, the police were initially shocked by the decision of the magistrate court to grant bail to the Dowen staff and the five suspected students.
Falana asked "Are you aware that there was a protest by the police to the Chief Judge that they were not allowed to conclude investigation?"
Yes, the witness replied.
"You did say that at the time the suspects were granted bail, you had just got intelligence report and statements from the suspects, and this came as a rude shock to the police that the investigation was not allowed to be carried out?" Falana asked.
Yes, the witness answered.
Falana: After this protest, were the suspects brought back for further interrogation?
No, the witness replied.
Falana: During investigations, one of the students told you that the deceased was bullied?
To which the witness replied, Yes.
"Did any of the witnesses tell you that the deceased was taken to the third floor of the school and tortured? Falana asked.
Witness: The claim wasn't substantiated but yes, I was told.
Falana: Did any of the witnesses tell you that the deceased was injured on the 14th of November?
Witness: I can't remember.
At this point, the witness was confronted with the statement of a student who wrote "Sylvester Oromoni played football on Sunday, November 14, he was dragging his leg because he had an injury and on Monday, November 15, he didn't attend class but was in the sickbay."
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The CSP was also confronted with the statement of another student and was asked, "Is he the one who told you that the deceased was taken to the third floor where he was subjected to torture?"
Yes, came the reply.
The witness was then asked to read to the hearing of court, some of the conclusions from the police report dated December 23, 2021.
"It is evidently clear that some group of students constitute themselves into a clique that bullies and intimidates fellow students in the school"he said
When asked to mention the students who formed the clique, the witness noted that his report mentioned Michael Kashamu and Edward Bague who were earlier reprimanded for bullying other students. He was, however, quick to say that there was nothing to link them to the Oromoni case.
The CSP was also asked whether he invited a journalist, Kemi Olunloyo, to shed more light on her report, carried out in the cause of the investigation, a report which suggests that the deceased, late Sylvester Oromoni wanted to join a secret cult and in the cause of doing this, was given a concoction to drink?
Yes, we invited her, the witness replied
Falana: What's your finding as per the letter?
Witness: She didn't come.
Proceedings came to an end at this point after some other lawyers in the matter complained that the interim legal advice and the police letter to the journalist had not been front-loaded to them.
Counsel to Dowen College, Anthony Kpokpo said:
"It has become part of the deceased family's style to present documents that have not been front-loaded. We will not be able to continue with the cross-examination as a result of the surprises being pulled on us. This is regrettable."
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Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri has adjourned further proceedings till Tuesday, February 22.
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Opponents Sound-Off on Paterson's Proposed $1.4 Billion in Education Cuts
ALBANY, N.Y. - As if the governor did not already have enough on his plate, David Paterson will be getting protest messages from across the state today concerning his proposed $1.4 billion cut in education.
Sherry Byrnes, a steering committee member of the Alliance for Quality Education, explains the cuts would be especially hard on high-need school districts, which she says are chronically under-funded. As an example, she points to the thousands of refugee children who have been resettled in Buffalo, where the cuts would reverse progress that has been made in meeting their needs. In a word, she says, the impact will be "devastating."
"That's an overworked word today, but it is the reality, and it's so important that we put a face on it - especially in a city like Buffalo, where we are so highly dependent on state funding."
Gov. Paterson says many school districts are sitting on cash reserves that could lessen the impacts of the cuts. Byrnes warns that using reserves could jeopardize districts' long-term fiscal health, and again citing Buffalo, she says the district could use half its reserves and still not absorb all the proposed cuts.
Since state funding follows students who head to charter schools, Cathy Korbo, president of the Albany State Teacher's Association, says Paterson's proposed cuts carry a double-punch. In Albany, just a few more than 2,000 students chose to head to charter schools, and their departure has had a major economic impact.
"This year we will be sending $30 million to charter schools to support the students who have left our district; and we're experiencing a $7.7 million deficit from the governor's budget in terms of our district's state aid."
Parents, students, educators and community leaders will hold 18 news conferences across the state today to discuss their opposition to the proposed cuts. A central message will be that the state has broken its promise to adequately fund education under the Campaign for Fiscal Equity commitment, and that these cuts come on top of that broken promise.
Mike Clifford, Public News Service - NY