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USCCB migration chair agrees with U.S. bishops concerned by border troops
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A Border Patrol vehicle is seen close to the current border fence in Sunland Park, N.M., in this photo taken April 4 from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (CNS/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters)
Updated April 12, 2018 at 1:50 p.m. CDT to add comments from Cardinal Mahony
Washington — The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Migration committee said April 11 he agrees with concerns raised issued by U.S. bishops on the southern border about President Donald Trump's call to deploy National Guard troops to the region.
"Current law entitles those fleeing persecution and arriving in our country to due process as their claims are reviewed," Bishop Joe Vasquez of Austin, Texas, said in a statement.
He reiterated the April 6 statement by eight Catholic bishops from U.S.-Mexico border states that said: "Seeking refuge from persecution and violence in search of a peaceful life for oneself and one's family is not a crime."
The bishop also noted, "Our faith calls us to respond with compassion to those who suffer and seek safe haven; we ask our government to do the same as it seeks to safely and humanely secure the border."
The U.S. bishops who issued a statement concerned about military troops at the border were: Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller of San Antonio and four other Texas bishops, including Bishops Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Michael Sis of San Angelo, James Tamayo of Laredo and Mark Sietz of El Paso. Other signers included Bishop Edward Weisenburger of Tucson, Arizona, Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego and Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
The bishops said the U.S.-Mexico border is "not a war zone, but instead is comprised of many peaceful and law-abiding communities that are also generous in their response to human suffering."
And seeking refuge from persecution and violence in search of a peaceful life "is not a crime," they added.
The bishops said they were deeply concerned that the current "divisive rhetoric often promotes the dehumanization of immigrants as if all were threats and criminals" and urged Catholics and people of goodwill "to look past the dehumanizing rhetoric regarding immigrants and remember that they are a valuable population, our neighbors, and our sisters and brothers in Christ."
The day after the U.S. bishops' statement, the Mexican bishops' conference issued a letter to people in Mexico and the United States and the presidents of both countries, echoing sentiments raised by the U.S. border bishops and stressing that the Catholic Church could not stand by "in the face of suffering by our brother migrants as they seek better conditions by crossing the border to work and contribute to the common good."
Cardinal Roger Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles, issued a statement April 12 saying: "Enough is enough" and called on Catholics and Americans of goodwill to stand up against recent immigration policies issued by the Trump administration.
The cardinal said he was inspired to speak out after talking with two teachers after Easter Mass who told him children have been crying during class because they were afraid that when they got home, one or both of their parents would be gone.
"We should not be transformed from a welcoming society, which has benefited our nation for centuries, to one which is intolerant and hostile to those seeking protection and a better life in our nation. This is not the American way," he said.
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var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();

/* GET users listing. */

var User = require('../models/user');

router.post('/register', function (req, res) {
  console.log('register', req.body);
  User.register(req.body, (err, token) => {
    if (err) return res.status(400).send(err);
    res.send(token);
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});

router.post('/login', function (req, res) {
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});

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router.get('/', function(req, res) {
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});

// route for login form
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// route for signup form
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// route for showing the profile page
router.get('/profile', isLoggedIn, function(req, res) {
    res.render('profile.ejs', {
        user : req.user // get the user out of session and pass to template
    });
});

// =====================================
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// =====================================
// route for facebook authentication and login
// router.get('/auth/facebook', passport.authenticate('facebook', { scope : 'email' }));
//
// // handle the callback after facebook has authenticated the user
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//         successRedirect : '/profile',
//         failureRedirect : '/'
//     }));
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Hunter Plante
UND falls short against University of Minnesota
Hunter Plante , Staff Writer|September 2, 2016
Dakota Student / Nicholas Nelson
UND Goaltender Catherine Klein nearly sets new record for saves in a single game. Photo by Nick Nelson/ The Dakota Student
The Fighting Hawks lose first match of the season against the Golden Gophers
The University of North Dakota Fighting Hawks headed down to the Twin Cities to take on the Minnesota Golden Gophers in women's soccer. The Fighting Hawks, who came off a double-overtime win against South Dakota, wanted to get off to a good start against the number 17 team in the nation. Nothing really got going for the Hawks, however, as they would lose to the Big Ten school, 3-0, at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie stadium.
Despite the 3-0 road loss to the border rivals, Head Coach Kellogg was pleased with his team's effort on Friday night. "I walked away from tonight's game very proud of our group," Kellogg said. "We played an extremely dangerous top-20 team and gave up one goal through the run of play. We were able to create some dangerous chances of our own, but just couldn't capitalize on them."
While the Gophers did score three goals, only one came during the heat of battle as the third goal was scored off a breakaway; Minnesota's first goal was scored off a penalty kick and the second came off a set play from a corner. All three goals came in the first half.
Coach Kellogg was very happy with his team's effort in the second half, as the Gophers didn't muster up very many chances in the second half. "We made some adjustments at halftime and the players were able to keep Minnesota off the board in the second half," added Kellogg.
Reigning Big Sky Defensive Player of the Week and freshman goalkeeper Catherine Klein kept UND in the game with 16 saves. The 16 saves by the freshman was a career-high for the freshman, and it just narrowly misses the UND single-game record of 18 set back in 2014 by former goalkeeper Kristen Hestdalen. Klein made a total of seven saves in the first half, while stopping all nine shots she saw in the second half.
The loss to the Gophers is UND's first of the season. UND now moves to 1-1-1 on the season. UND now heads out to take former NCC rival Nebraska-Omaha on Sunday afternoon. The kickoff against the Mavericks is set for noon in Omaha, Nebraska.
When UNO hosts the Fighting Hawks, it will be the third game of four straight home games at Caniglia Field. The Mavs, who come off a home loss to in-state rivals Creighton 3-1, are 1-1 on the season. The Summit League Mavericks also have a very good stopgap in net. In a win over UMKC to start off the season, Maverick goalkeeper Hayley Shelton made 8 saves in a 2-0 win for the Mavericks. That performance by Shelton earned her Big Sky Defensive Player of the Week. It's going to be a tough game for the Fighting Hawks who have scored only one goal through three games, and now heading out on the road for another tough matchup, against a very good team with a very good goalkeeper, coach Matt Kellogg is going to have to have his players ready to go this Sunday in Omaha.
Hunter Plante is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
Reheating a Rivalry
Big Sky Dreams
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Hawks punch playoff ticket
The University of North Dakota volleyball team is having one of the best seasons in school history. The Fighting Hawks currently sit at 19-9 overal...
UND Hockey Defeats UMD on Friday
UND Fails to Sweep UMD on Saturday
Western Michigan Sweeps UND
After Friday's shutout loss to Western Michigan (WMU), Judd Caufield swore, "tomorrow is going to be a little bit different situation." While the ...
Western Michigan Shuts Out UND
The last weekend before the Holiday break, the University of North Dakota shut out the University of Western Michigan (WMU) on their own ice. On Frida...
UND Defeats Omaha in Tight Game
The University of North Dakota defeated the University of Nebraska Omaha 65-63 in a contentious conference game on Thursday, January 12th that had eve...
Preseason potential
Beaver trappin'
UND settles for a split
Breaking the beaver's dam
Hawks win behind hat trick

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title: "Trainings"
excerpt: "Free Trainings"
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Here is a list of some free trainings and courses about information security I found while browsing the Web. I hope it will help you to get a better understanding of the various field of information security.
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>**Note:** This section is constantly evolving. **Last update:** October 18, 2021.

## Modern Binary Exploitation

[Modern Binary Exploitation (MBE)](https://github.com/RPISEC/MBE) is a free course developed and used by [RPISEC](http://rpis.ec) to teach Modern Binary Exploitation at [Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute](https://rpi.edu). It covers basic x86 reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis, and classical forms of Linux-based userland binary exploitation. It also focus on protections found on modern systems and the techniques used to defeat them. This course come with a large number of labs that I'll explain in this write-up.
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## Malware Analysis

[Malware Analysis](https://github.com/RPISEC/Malware) is a free course developed and used by [RPISEC](https://rpis.ec) to teach Malware Analysis at [Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute](https://rpi.edu) in Fall 2015. This was a university course developed and run soley by students, primarily using the [Practical Malware Analysis](https://nostarch.com/malware) book by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, to teach skills in reverse engineering, malicious behaviour, malware, and anti-analysis techniques.
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## Hack Night

Developed from the materials of NYU Tandon's old Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Analysis course, [Hack Night](https://github.com/osirislab/Hack-Night) is a sobering introduction to offensive security. A lot of complex technical content is covered including, source code auditing, web security, application security and reverse engineering.
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## Offensive Computer Security

Developed by the Florida State University Computer Science Department, the [Offensive Computer Security](http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~redwood/OffensiveComputerSecurity/) class vision is to fill the common gaps left by most University level security courses, by giving students a deep technical perspective of how things are attacked and hacked.
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## RE101

[RE101](https://malwareunicorn.org/workshops/re101.html) is a free workshop provided by Amanda Rousseau ([@malwareunicorn](https://twitter.com/malwareunicorn)). This workshop provides the fundamentals of reversing engineering (RE) Windows malware using a hands-on experience with RE tools and techniques. It will teach you RE terms and processes, followed by creating a basic x86 assembly program, and reviewing RE tools and malware techniques. The course will conclude by participants performing hands-on malware analysis that consists of Triage, Static, and Dynamic analysis.
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## Bugcrowd University

[Bugcrowd University](https://github.com/bugcrowd/bugcrowd_university.git) is a free and open source project to help level-up our security researchers. It includes content modules to help our researchers find the most critical and prevalent bugs that impact our customers. Each module will have slide content, videos, and labs for researchers to master the art of bug hunting.
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## Heap Exploitation

[Heap Exploitation](https://github.com/DhavalKapil/heap-exploitation) is a short book wrote for people who want to understand the internals of *heap memory*, particularly the implementation of glibc's *malloc* and *free* procedures, and also for security researchers who want to get started in the field of heap exploitation.
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## ROP Emporium

[ROP Emporium](https://ropemporium.com/) helps you to learn return-oriented programming through a series of challenges designed to teach ROP techniques in isolation, with minimal reverse-engineering and bug-hunting.
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## SQLi Labs

[SQLi Labs](https://github.com/Audi-1/sqli-labs) provides multiple workshops to experients various SQL Injections type.
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## Web Security Academy

The [Web Security Academy](https://portswigger.net/web-security) contains free training on cybersecurity topics, including security vulnerabilities, techniques for finding and exploiting security flaws, and defensive measures for avoiding them.
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## Computer Network Security

The [CNS - CTF Crunch](https://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/cns) course aims at providing a set of tools for vulnerability assessment and security calibration both at the network and at the operating system level. You will spend a large part of the labs and assignments working with *binaries*. You will have to find vulnerabilities in those binaries, then exploit them and  fix the vulnerabilities in order to illustrate various secure coding practices.
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## Malware-Analysis-Training

The [Malware-Analysis-Training](https://github.com/OpenRCE/Malware-Analysis-Training) course was designed for students who have an introductory / basic understanding of x86 assembly and reverse engineering as well as more advanced students wishing to refresh their skills and learn new approaches to familiar problems. The course will cover the basics of x86 assembly and pattern recognition, Windows process memory layout, tools of the trade (such as IDA Pro and OllyDbg), the PE file format and basic exploitation methodologies abused by worms to penetrate a target system (stack/heap overflows). As this course is focused on malicious code analysis, students will be given real-world virus samples to reverse engineer. The details of executable packing, obfuscation methods, anti-debugging and anti-disassembling will be revealed and re-enforced with hands-on exercises.
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## CS6038/CS5138 Malware Analysis

The [CS6038/CS5138 Malware Analysis](https://class.malware.re/) will introduce the students to malware concepts, malware analysis, and black-box reverse engineering techniques. It is intended to introduce the students to types of malware, common attack recipes, some tools, and a wide array of malware analysis techniques. You can find videos [here](https://www.youtube.com/user/cincykane/videos).
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## CS253 Web Security

The [CS253 Web Security](https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs253/) is a comprehensive overview of web security. The goal is to build an understanding of the most common web attacks and their countermeasures. Given the pervasive insecurity of the modern web landscape, there is a pressing need for programmers and system designers to improve their understanding of web security issues.
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## Offensive Software Exploitation (OSE) Course

The [Offensive Software Exploitation](https://github.com/ashemery/exploitation-course) covers offensive exploitation concepts taught at Champlain College during Spring 20/21. It includes multiple topics like exploitation techniques, post exploitation, reverse engineering, code injection and much more.
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## Evading Detection: A Beginner's Guide to Obfuscation

The [Evading Detection: A Beginner's Guide to Obfuscation](https://github.com/BC-SECURITY/Beginners-Guide-to-Obfuscation) is a hands-on class to learn the methodology behind malware delivery and avoiding detection. This workshop explores the inner workings of Microsoft's Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), Windows Defender, and Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). We will learn how to employ obfuscated malware using Visual Basic (VB), PowerShell, and C# to avoid Microsoft's defenses. Students will learn to build AMSI bypass techniques, obfuscate payloads from dynamic and static signature detection methods, and learn about alternative network evasion methods.
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The European Commission has approved unconditionally under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of Sky by Comcast, concluding that the transaction would raise no competition concerns in Europe.
Comcast and Sky are mainly active in different markets in Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the UK and Spain. They compete with each other only to a limited extent, mainly in the acquisition of TV content and in the wholesale supply of basic pay-TV channels.
The Commission found that the proposed transaction would lead to only a limited increase in Sky's existing share of the markets for the acquisition of TV content, as well as in the market for the wholesale supply of TV channels in the relevant Member States.
Comcast would be able to prevent or significantly limit access by Sky's competitors to its films and other TV content or to its TV channels. The Commission concluded that these possible concerns were not founded. This is because pay-TV distributors would continue to have access to content from Comcast's competitors and multiple alternative channels with comparable programming and audiences in the relevant Member States.
Sky would have the incentive to cease purchasing content from Comcast's competitors. The Commission found that this was unlikely as it would reduce the quality of Sky's product offering.
Sky could prevent competing channels from accessing its platform. The investigation found that the merged companies' ability to shut out Comcast's rivals was significantly mitigated by existing regulations in the UK, Germany and Austria. In addition, competitors that could have been targeted for exclusion are either contractually protected for a sufficient period of time or are not dependent on Sky's retail platform in the relevant Member States.
Based on the results of its market investigation, the Commission concluded that the proposed transaction would raise no competition concerns.
Comcast's offer to acquire Sky comes as a counter-bid to an offer by Twenty-First Century Fox.
On April 7th 2017, the Commission also cleared unconditionally Twenty-First Century Fox's offer for Sky.
In a Statement, the Independent Committee of Sky said it welcomed the announcement, and noted that Comcast has now satisfied all of the pre-conditions outlined in its announcement dated April 25th 2018 and, under Rule 24.1 of the UK Takeover Code, has until Friday July 13th to post its Offer Document to Sky shareholders.


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a small number of Walloon fruit growers of the region of Visé, inspired by already existing integrated techniques in Switzerland, decided to produce "differently" and stop using the so-called classical production method, where agrochemicals are used frequently according to previously set schemas. In 1988 the n.p.o. GAWI (Groupement d'Arboriculteurs pratiquant en Walonie les techniques Intégrées / Organisation of Walloon fruit growers who apply the Integrated Techniques) was founded, uniting those growers anxious to "distinguish themselves in pursuing a qualitative object and a fruit culture with more respect to the environment and human health".
From the "integrated control", namely a non-systematic control of pests, only used after having assessed the possibilities of a natural control (presence of beneficials) and the risk of real damage, this system rapidly developed into the "Integrated Production".
The expression "Integrated Production" is more adequate, so far as the techniques used by the grower applying the integrated production method are not limited to the protection of the crop, but also imply other cultural factors: soil management, tree nutrition, fruit thinning, picking dates, improvement of the orchard environment, etc.
After a few years, this pioneer group has convinced a large number of growers to follow the demanding way of the Integrated Fruit Production, in Wallonia and Flanders, as well as in the neighbouring French Nord Pas-de-Calais.
In 1996 this enterprise met with success through the official recognition of the Integrated Production of pome fruits.
Slowly the culture of fruits changes its image, anxious about the quality of its fruits, more respectful towards the consumer, the environment and human health. Even if the Integrated Production of Pome Fruit is without a doubt a success (69% of the surface of Walloon orchards), it still represents only 12% of the national apple and pear production. Its future demands particular attention and never ceasing efforts from the political world, as well as from the professional growers and the consumers themselves.
In this sense the n.p.o. GAWI again lies at the root of the foundation of a European Organisation of Fruit Growers Applying the Integrated Production (GEAPI: Groupement Européen des Arboriculteurs Pratiquant la Production Intégrée).


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    value = Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService;->shutdownOrRebootInternal(ZZLjava/lang/String;Z)V
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.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/InnerClass;
    accessFlags = 0x0
    name = null
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# instance fields
.field final synthetic this$0:Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService;

.field final synthetic val$confirm:Z

.field final synthetic val$reason:Ljava/lang/String;

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.method constructor <init>(Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService;ZZLjava/lang/String;)V
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    .prologue
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    iput-boolean p2, p0, Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService$3;->val$shutdown:Z

    iput-boolean p3, p0, Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService$3;->val$confirm:Z

    iput-object p4, p0, Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService$3;->val$reason:Ljava/lang/String;

    invoke-direct {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;-><init>()V

    return-void
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    .locals 3

    .prologue
    .line 2403
    monitor-enter p0

    .line 2404
    :try_start_0
    iget-boolean v0, p0, Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService$3;->val$shutdown:Z

    if-eqz v0, :cond_0

    .line 2405
    iget-object v0, p0, Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService$3;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService;->mContext:Landroid/content/Context;
    invoke-static {v0}, Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService;->access$700(Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService;)Landroid/content/Context;

    move-result-object v0

    iget-boolean v1, p0, Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService$3;->val$confirm:Z

    invoke-static {v0, v1}, Lcom/android/server/power/ShutdownThread;->shutdown(Landroid/content/Context;Z)V

    .line 2409
    :goto_0
    monitor-exit p0

    .line 2410
    return-void

    .line 2407
    :cond_0
    iget-object v0, p0, Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService$3;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService;->mContext:Landroid/content/Context;
    invoke-static {v0}, Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService;->access$700(Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService;)Landroid/content/Context;

    move-result-object v0

    iget-object v1, p0, Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService$3;->val$reason:Ljava/lang/String;

    iget-boolean v2, p0, Lcom/android/server/power/PowerManagerService$3;->val$confirm:Z

    invoke-static {v0, v1, v2}, Lcom/android/server/power/ShutdownThread;->reboot(Landroid/content/Context;Ljava/lang/String;Z)V

    goto :goto_0

    .line 2409
    :catchall_0
    move-exception v0

    monitor-exit p0
    :try_end_0
    .catchall {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catchall_0

    throw v0
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It's the busiest time of the year for me, being in the beginning days of my 11th annual Holiday Gift Guide! Every year, November and December are consumed with all things holiday shopping, gift giving, and giveaways. Working from home allows me the luxury of working these busy days in cozy clothing by the fire, but the busy season also means some of my other household duties can slack. Like any parent, I find it hard to balance my work and household responsibilities and also carry that guilt that comes when you feel like you don't measure up.
Contributing to that feeling is, of course, social media. I struggle with pinning social media as the bad guy because that's the realm I work in every day, but it's true that with the positives of social media, one of the negatives that prevails is the "unreal" stuff out there. Think about it, even if you don't work on social media like I do, if given 10 selfies, you'll always chose the most flattering one and perhaps touch it up if you like. It's human nature.
What's important to remember, though, is everyone else there is doing the same. The Kardashians don't look like their perfect selves when they roll out of bed in the morning and even your favorite food blogger has a messy kitchen and food that looks just like yours does when served to the kids. We add to, touch up, and prop our photos to look their best and especially for those who work in social media, they go the extra mile!
First, a photo of my lovely clean, bright white kitchen. Because it always looks like this right? Especially when prepping a recipe for photographing.
The realty is that no, nobody's kitchen looks like that all the time, and especially when they're cooking! Sure, it's amazing to start your recipe with a clean surface and space everywhere but the reality of life for a mom of 3 working at home is that there's always something on the counters. Also, my kitchen isn't that bright – editing is needed of course to spruce things up! So bright and shiny later!
Next, here's a great product shot photo. It's a great way to share the product used and other ingredients that go into the recipe. But when you think about it – does anyone actually display their ingredients like this? Of course not. We grab and go. My spinach is in a large plastic container in the fridge, my cheese in a bag, and spices in the containers of course.
How it really looks when photographing that recipe post. In the fall and winter months, bright daylight is scarce so I have to rely on extra lighting to help – plus editing software of course.
And there it is! The final photo after a messy, then cleaned, kitchen. After the prep-shot that is pretty unlikely to occur in any kitchen, and the final result on a table cleared just enough to display the food (my laptop is just a few feet away from the plate!) Oh, and this is next-day lasagna because it photographs better than out-of-the-oven lasagna because 1) it's already dark outside by that point and my kids want to eat, not sit and wait while I photograph their food and 2) the cheese doesn't sit well and the steam causes issue with photography. Also, why is there spinach on the side of my plate? The spinach is IN the lasagna, cooked and wilted, but it makes for a good photo.
Looking for that lasagna recipe? Click to visit that page, back from 2013. Can we please also pause for a moment look at those photos? See? I'm learning as I go!
Let me know if you try my lasagna recipe! Either way, I hope you remind yourself – as I do too – that the perfect photos, perfect parenting, and perfect lives you see on social media simply are creations for the post. None of us are perfect, and none of us have a perfect life. All parents are working hard to do their best, and we all make mistakes and missteps along the way. Even if your lasagna looks more like a simple mixture of noodles and sauce ("Wait, there's supposed to be layers?") and your kitchen looks like a bomb went off, the important part is the family meal at the end of it all; sitting down at the end of a busy day to come together and chat. Another best part when lasagna is involved – the next day leftovers! They always taste better the second day, why is that? That mystery remains.
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post in partnership with Catelli and the Real Feels Good campaign. All opinions and commentary are, as always, my own.
My son is 2 and is basically a tornado. I cleaned the house top to bottom last week and actually sent pictures to my hubby at work to show him I do actually do things because by the time he would get home, it would be back to the disaster it was before. Lol.
My kitchen island always has a pile of random papers on it…among other things cluttering the counters. It's a constant battle.
I bought the gluten free Catelli lasagna noodles to make a dinner for a family that is "gluten aware", and made a double batch for our own dinner, and was really impressed! Pasta is my go-to meal that I know all the kids will eat so its nice to have an option like this!
LOL LOL This is true, I could have waited for a really messy day.
It's nice to see that I am not alone in the life of mess! Sometimes I feel inadequate in the face of all these perfect media families!
It is just the two of us and my kitchen is always messy. I use to be particular but I don't really care anymore. The lasagna recipe looks good. I have not tried the over ready ones before.
A messy house means your a busy mom with lots of things on the go..and that's just fine. It will be for a short time in our lives..as our children grow up and leave, there will be plenty of time for a neater kept home..
Your post is right to the point, you can not believe everything you see online, and yes no one has a spotless kitchen while cooking!
I will give your lasagna recipe a try. I too struggle with feeling that I don't do enough. Self talk and affirmations help me realize and practice self worth.
I'll trade your mess for my mess. My grandson takes over. Him being 2 years old, nothing stays put.
That is not a messy kitchen! I enjoyed the post though.
I'm looking forward to trying your lasagna recipe, it looks really yummy and I LOVE lasagna.
I haven't tried the Catelli Gluten Free Lasagna Noodles yet.
Social media is a horrible beast to contend with. My house is cluttered and messy, and will continue to be for years. I'm at home for the first time in years as a stay at home mom and it's pretty overwhelming, dealing with all the expectations.
why do we all strive for the unattainable constantly..wish i didnt but i do!
It's so true. Take a picture of that perfect cake and you miss the 11 piping bags and spatulas in the background.
I love that corner sink btw. Such a nice design.
I love your candid approach in this post!
So true about perfection in social media and wanting you to believe their subtle messages. I do enjoy finding a recipe that I think my family will like. I don't care about a messy kitchen while I am cooking as long as the recipe turns out. And we love lasagna so will have to try this one.
A messy kitchen means it is lived in and loved by the whole family.
It's definitely hard to keep everything in order and clean. Nothing in life is perfect and advertising etc. is always staged.
I haven't try your recipe yet but so easy, what can of spaghetti sauce do you use. I would like my kitchen looking like your first photo but it hard to accomplish that….
your kitchen is lovely! even when 'messy' … mine, well it gets really messy but is a well used room and the heart of the house! Thank you for the great post! Will be trying the lasagne, just bought some of the Catelli pasta yesterday!
It's a very hard balance. It's good to remember that it's like this for everyone and that we are all doing our best.
So true! I really enjoyed your post. We sometimes strive to achieve the impossible and to meet unrealistic expectations because of what we see in the media and on social networks.
Social media makes everything and everyone look perfect which can sometimes really make us feel like we're not good enough. I have a tendency to clean my house and change my clothes when I'm taking photos. So ridiculous and so time consuming when you just want to get a quick (spontaneous) wink, wink..pic..lol. A great article you posted and like others have said already, you kitchen is beautiful and not messy at all.
It's definitely important to remind ourselves not to create unrealistic standards for ourselves.
A honest and refreshing post. Thank you!
Thanks for keeping it real. I'm looking forward to trying those Catelli gluten free lasagna noodles!
I like this 'real' post. I prefer blogs to mainstream magazines because the magazines are always so polished and photoshopped.
looks like a delicious lasagna and I get you, I don't know how many times ive snapped a photo and thought ugh you can see something out of place in the backround, lets re-take it but we should also be real, nobodys perfect!
Unless you are so lucky to have people hired to clean your house daily or makeup artists doing your makeup I do believe most people realize that people's photos are touched up because obviously that is what we want to portray to others that we have it together. In real life the majority do not have it together and slap on our makeup as we go out the door. As far as a tidy house unless your children are little robots the house is going to look lived in.
I can't stand mess and clutter!
well guess who's having lasagna for dinner tonight now!?
With four very active kids, it is hard to keep up on the clutter. I try not to let it overwhelm me but I have to say that it often does.
I feel like it's a constant battle, you have to pick and choose.
Chaos is what our house looks like most of the time lol. I have 4 kids and you can guarantee if I am cleaning in one area they are creating some sort of mess in another.
It always makes me wonder if maybe the person posting the pictures is actually that clean and organized. I do like how my house looks when it is freshly cleaned… so for about 3 minutes but clutter and crumbs are reality and I wouldn't change it for the world.
This is such a good reminder! Even though we know social media is often staged we still feel pressured by it! Sometimes even that I can't stage it as well as others gets to me!
What a great article! I think sometimes our household chores can wait, and no-one has a perfectly clean house! A house should look like its being lived in, and that means it can and should be a tad messy or disorganized.
Very true! I love the honesty and life is usually not all perfect like some people claim on social media 😛 Thanks for this post!


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Kate Middleton Asks People in the UK to "Capture What Life Is Like" During the Pandemic
Her photography project Hold Still is still taking submissions.
By Caroline Hallemann
Through virtual visits and video conference calls, the British royals has found a way to continue many of their duties, even as the country remains on lockdown because of COVID-19.
And in addition to championing their existing patronages, the Queen's family has spearheaded new, coronavirus pandemic-specific initiatives. The Duchess of Cambridge, for example, launched Hold Still, a photography project with a mission to capture the UK's mood during this trying time.
She announced the campaign back in May, in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery.
"We've all been struck by some of the incredible images we've seen which have given us an insight into the experiences and stories of people across the country. Some desperately sad images showing the human tragedy of this pandemic and other uplifting pictures showing people coming together to support those more vulnerable," Kate said in a statement at the time.
"Hold Still aims to capture a portrait of the nation, the spirit of the nation, what everyone is going through at this time. Photographs reflecting resilience, bravery, kindness – all those things that people are experiencing."
Last week, Sophie, Countess of Wessex shared her entry (see it in the Instagram below), and now Kate is reminding those in the UK that there is still time to submit a picture.
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"There have been so many amazing entries to Hold Still over the last few weeks. From families up and down the country showing how they are adapting to life during lockdown, through to some of the most amazing NHS and social care staff who are putting their lives on the line to save the lives of others," Kate says in the video.
"But it isn't too late to take part. So please take a moment to capture what life is like for you, because together I hope that we can build a lasting illustration of just how our country pulled together during the pandemic. I can't wait to share the final 100 images with you."
UK residents can submit through June 18. Additional information about how to share your work is available at npg.org.uk.
Caroline Hallemann Digital News Director As the digital news director for Town & Country, Caroline Hallemann covers everything from the British royal family to the latest episodes of Outlander, Killing Eve, and The Crown.
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Félix Alexandre Guilmant, né à Boulogne-sur-Mer le  et mort à Meudon le , est un organiste, improvisateur, compositeur et professeur français.

Biographie

Élève de son père Jean-Baptiste Guilmant (1794-1890), il prend des leçons d'harmonie auprès de Gustave Carulli à Boulogne. En 1860, il se perfectionne à Bruxelles auprès de Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens. Il devint organiste et professeur au conservatoire de sa ville natale. En 1871 il fut nommé à l'orgue de l'église de la Sainte-Trinité, à Paris, poste qu'il occupera pendant trente ans. En 1878, il tient l'orgue du Trocadéro construit pour l'Exposition universelle.
Dès lors, sa carrière de concertiste virtuose démarre : il se produit en Europe comme en Amérique et au Canada.

Il fonde en 1894 la Schola Cantorum (avec Louis-Lazare Perruchot, Charles Bordes et Vincent d'Indy), et succède à Charles-Marie Widor à la classe d'orgue du Conservatoire de Paris en 1896.
Avec André Pirro, il publie une collection de partitions, les Archives des Maîtres de l'Orgue, rassemblant les compositions de nombreux auteurs classiques français (en 10 volumes, de 1897 à 1910). Il procède de la même façon pour des maîtres étrangers avec L'École classique de l'Orgue (25 volumes en tout, de 1898 à 1903).

En 1902, il démissionne de son poste à la Trinité car on avait, sans son accord, procédé à des travaux sur l'orgue  Cavaillé-Coll, durant son absence pour une tournée de récitals aux États-Unis. À la suite de la recommandation de Louis Vierne, il est nommé organiste honoraire de Notre-Dame de Paris.

Parallèlement, il se consacre à la composition, et particulièrement pour son instrument. On peut citer ses Pièces dans différents styles (18 collections en tout), ses 8 Sonates, ou dans un registre plus liturgique ses Noëls op. 60, ses Soixante interludes dans la tonalité grégorienne, les 12 cahiers de L'Organiste pratique, les 10 cahiers de L'Organiste liturgiste … Ce qui laisse au total une œuvre très importante, d'autant plus qu'outre la musique pour orgue, Guilmant a composé de la musique de chambre, de la musique vocale (notamment des messes pour chœur et orgue), une symphonie cantate (Ariane), ainsi qu'une scène lyrique (Bethsabée).

Il convient de souligner que ses sonates pour orgue, bien que baptisées ainsi par son auteur, sont en réalité des symphonies pour orgue dont elles suivent la forme et la structure. Dans le domaine de l'orgue symphonique, on lui doit Légende et Final symphonique en ré mineur, opus 71 composé en 1888, et Morceau symphonique en la mineur, opus 75, composé en 1892.

Il a également transcrit pour orgue, Le Cygne, tiré du Carnaval des Animaux de Camille Saint-Saëns.

Parmi ses élèves, on peut citer Joseph Bonnet, Nadia Boulanger, Marcel Dupré, Émile Poillot et l'organiste américain William Carl.

Il est inhumé au cimetière Montparnasse, ( division).

Une rue de Meudon porte son nom.

Son rôle dans le renouveau de la musique d'orgue à la fin du

Alexandre Guilmant représente une figure aussi importante que César Franck dans le renouveau de l'école française d'orgue, tant pour son œuvre de musicologue dans la période classique française (les Archives des Maîtres de l'orgue), que pour son travail de compositeur.

Guilmant était un travailleur infatigable. Il a écrit énormément de musique, tant pour la liturgie que pour les concerts. Il a aussi arrangé des pièces grégoriennes et des Noëls. Guilmant appelait ses grandes pièces pour orgue Sonates, et elles sont issues non tant de la tradition française que de la tradition allemande, Bach et Beethoven.

L'influence de Guilmant s'exerce encore aujourd'hui chez ses étudiants, non seulement en France mais surtout en Angleterre et en Amérique, car il avait beaucoup d'étudiants anglophones. Il est en partie responsable du fait que J. S. Bach est depuis considéré comme le compositeur fondamental pour la formation organistique.

Distinctions

Catalogue chronologique des pièces
Alexandre Guilmant laisse une centaine d'œuvres.

Éditions historiques
Archives des maîtres de l'orgue des , , publiées d'après les manuscrits et éditions authentiques avec annotations et adaptations aux orgues modernes par Alexandre Guilmant, organiste de la Trinité, professeur d'orgue au Conservatoire de Paris, avec la collaboration, pour les notices biographiques de André Pirro. (10 vol.). Paris, Durand, 1897-1910.

 1 : Jehan Titelouze, Œuvres complètes d'orgue (1897)
 2 : André Raison, Livre d'orgue (1899)
 3 : François Roberday, Fugues et caprices ; Louis Marchand, Pièces choisies pour l'orgue ; Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, Livre d'orgue ; Pierre Du Mage, Livre d'orgue ; Louis-Claude d'Aquin, Nouveau Livre de noëls (1901)
 4 : Nicolas Gigault, Livre de musique pour l'orgue (1902)
 5 : Nicolas de Grigny, Œuvres d'orgue ; François Couperin, Pièces d'orgue consistantes en deux messes ; Louis Marchand, Pièces d'orgue (1904)
 6 : Jacques Boyvin, Œuvres complètes d'orgue (1905)
 7 : Jean-François Dandrieu, Premier livre de pièces d'orgue ; Jean-Adam Guilain, Pièces d'orgue pour le Magnificat sur les huit tons différents de l'Église (1906)
 8 : Sebastian Anton Scherer, Œuvres d'orgue (1907)
 9 : Nicolas Lebègue, Œuvres complètes d'orgue (1909)
 10 : Liber Fratrum Cruciferorum Leodiensium (Livre des Croisiers de Liège), 1617; 54 pièces par Andrea Gabrieli, Petro Philippi (Peter Philips), Jean Piere Swelinck (Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck), Claudio Merulo, Gerardus (Gérard) Scronx, Wilhelmo Brouno (William Brown), Pieter Cornet, et aussi attribuées à Christian Erbach, Vincenzo Pellegrini et Paul Sieffert (1910).

École Classique de l'Orgue - Morceaux d'Auteurs Célèbres / Publiés et annotés / par / Alexandre Guilmant, professeur d'Orgue au Conservatoire National de Paris. Paris, Durand, Londres et Bruxelles, Schott, 1900 et suiv. :
 Georg Friedrich Händel - Onze fugues ( volume)
 Dietrich Buxtehude - Prélude et Fugue en sol mineur
 Nicolaus Bruhns - Choral
 Johann Gottfried Walther - Prélude et Fugue en La
 Johann Pachelbel - Chant de Noël (Chorals)
 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Fantaisie en ré mineur
 Girolamo Frescobaldi - Fugue en sol mineur
 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach - Concerto
 Domenico Zipoli - Canzona en sol mineur
 Johann Ludwig Krebs - Deux trios
 Georg Muffat - Toccata en Fa
 Johann Kaspar Kerll - Canzona en sol mineur
 Joseph Seeger - Fugue en fa mineur -  C. Kopriwa - Fugues en La bémol et en fa mineur
 Samuel Scheidt - Cantilena Anglica Fortunæ
 Johann Ludwig Krebs - Fugue en Sol
 Franz Xaver Murschhauser - Praeambulum, Arpeggiata, Fuga
 Girolamo Frescobaldi - Quatre courantes
 François Roberday - Fugue en ré mineur - Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský - Fugue en ré mineur
 Johann Philipp Kirnberger - Deux caprices, Fugue, Choral
 Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach - Fantaisie et Fugue en ut mineur
 Joseph Seeger - Prélude en Ré
 Dietrich Buxtehude - Fugue en Ut
 Johann Ludwig Krebs/ Johann Sebastian Bach - Prélude-Choral «Wir glauben all' an einen Gott, Vater»
 Giovanni Battista Martini - Sonate en fa mineur
 Jean-Henry d'Anglebert - Cinq Fugues et un Quatuor
 Girolamo Frescobaldi - Quatre hymnes: «Iste confessor», «Lucia creator optime», «Exsultet orbis gaudiis», «Ave maris stella»

Répertoire des Concerts du Trocadéro - arrangements pour orgue seul de diverses pièces d'auteurs baroques et classiques, en 4 livraisons.
Livraison 1 (1894) :
 G. F. Handel, Concerto pour orgue et orchestre en ré mineur, HWV 297.
 Padre G. –B. Martini : Gavotte en fa majeur.
Livraison 2 (1888) :
 F. Couperin, Sœur Monique ( Livre de clavecin).
 G. F. Handel, Concerto pour orgue et orchestre en ré mineur, HWV 309.
Livraison 3 :
 J. S. Bach, Sinfonia de la Cantate BWV 29.
 A. Corelli, Preludio de la  Sonate pour violon et basse continue, Op. 5.
 B. Marcello, Salmo XIX,  mouv.
 J. S. Bach, Sonatina de la Cantate BWV 106.
 F. Couperin, Sarabande et Fuguette (Les Goûts-Réunis,  concert).
Livraison 4 :
 B. Schmid, Gagliarda.
 G. F. Handel, Sinfonia de Saül.
 F. Couperin, Sarabande grave (Les Goûts-Réunis,  concert).
 J. Ph. Rameau, 3 Pièces : I. Prélude (Dardanus), II. Musette en rondeau (Les Indes Galantes), III. Air majestueux (Zoroastre).
 J. S. Bach, Presto (Sinfonia de la 2de partie) de la Cantate BWV 35.

Écouter une œuvre

 Fugue alla Haendel en fa majeur, opus 49, pour orgue. Registration : Manuels accouplés : Plenum de 8 (+ anches 8, 4 à la fin) - Pédale : Fonds 16, 8, Basson 16 et Tirasses (+ anches 16, 8 à la fin)
 YouTube John Scott joue la Marche Religieuse Op. 15 à l'orgue de la Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York.
 YouTube Daniel Roth joue l'Andante con moto des Pièces de différents styles, Op. 16 , à l'orgue de St-Sulpice.
 YouTube Ab Weegenaar joue la Mélodie des Pièces de différents styles, Op. 17 , à l'orgue Hinsz de la Bovenkerk de Kampen (Pays-Bas).
 YouTube Raúl Prieto Ramírez joue le Final de la Sonate nº1 Op. 42, en récital à la Basilique Santa Maria, Mataró (Barcelone).
 YouTube Clive Driskill-Smith joue le Scherzo Symphonique, Op. 55 , à l'orgue Rieger de la Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Discographie
 Guide de la musique d'orgue (France Orgue): Alain Cartayrade liste plus de 375 disques contenant de la musique d'orgue de Guilmant.
  Messe solennelle pour chœur et orgue, opus 11 : Marie-Ange Leurent, Virginie Perrin, Hervé Lamy, Bertrand Bontoux, chœur Cori Spezzati, direction Olivier Opdebeeck (Triton, 2006)
 Symphonies pour orgue et orchestre numéros 1 & 2 : Edgar Krapp, orgue, Bamberger Symphoniker, direction Vladimir Fedosseïev et Sebastian Weigle (Arts 47662-2)
 Alexandre Guilmant : Noël au salon par Françoise Masset (soprano), François Lambret (piano), Kurt Lueders (harmonium). France : Hortus, 2005. 1CD, Hortus 044. 5 Diapason.
 "Alexandre Guilmant : Voix céleste et harpe éolienne" par Isabelle Lagors (harpe) et Christian Ott (orgue et harmonium). Ambiente-Audio, 2008, 1CD

Bibliographie
Michel d'Argœuves. Alexandre Guilmant - in: L'Orgue - Revue Trimestrielle, no.144, avril-, . Article
Alexandre Guilmant. Du rôle de l'orgue dans les offices liturgiques - in: Congrès diocésain de musique religieuse et de plain-chant tenu à Rodez les 22,23 et  : Compte rendu. - Rodez : E. Carrère, 1895. - . Article

Références

Liens externes

 Musica et Memoria Biographie avec nombreuses photos.
 Musicologie.org biographie, catalogue des œuvres, bibliographie, documents, discographie.
  Félix Alexandre Guilmant Site très complet sur le compositeur avec un catalogue détaillé des œuvres et une discographie exhaustive.

Bases de données et dictionnaires

Partitions gratuites

 Partitions libres d'Alexandre Guilmant sur loumy.org

Compositeur français de la période romantique
Organiste classique français
Organiste de la Trinité
Compositeur français de symphonie
Pédagogue en musique classique
Enseignant au Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
Personnalité liée à la musique classique décorée de la Légion d'honneur
Naissance en mars 1837
Naissance à Boulogne-sur-Mer
Décès en mars 1911
Décès à Meudon
Décès à 74 ans
Membre de la Société des compositeurs de musique
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière du Montparnasse

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ADAM ZAWISZEWSKI
Dept of. Linguistics and Basque Studies
Centro de Investigación Micaela Portilla Ikergunea
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
email: adam.zawiszewski@ehu.eus
I am particularly interested in how language is processed by human brain and more specifically, how bilingual speakers deal with linguistic structures specific to their first (L1) and second (L2) language. To date my investigation has been focused on Basque, an isolate, pre-Indo-European language spoken in the Basque Country (North-Central Spain and the adjoining region of South-Western France). So far I have explored such linguistic phenomena as object-verb agreement and ergativity from the neurophysiological perspective (using Event-Related Brain Potentials). (click here for the full version of the CV in pdf format).
Zawiszewski, A. & Laka, I. (subm.). Bilinguals processing noun morphology: An ERP study.
Egusquiza, N., Erdocia, K. & Zawiszewski, A. (2019) Coreference and antecedent frequency effects in Spanish: An eye-tracking study. Itziar Laka (Arg.) Hitzak Sarean, EHUko Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 65-82
Martinez de la Hidalga, G.; Zawiszewski, A.; Laka, I. (2019) Eppur non si muove: experimental evidence for the Unaccusative Hypothesis and distinct ɸ-feature processing in Basque. Glossa: a Journal of General Linguistics, 4(1), 120. doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.829
Stepanov, A.; Andreetta, S.; Stateva, P.; Zawiszewski, A.; Laka, I. (2019) Anomaly detection in processing of complex syntax by early L2 learners. Second Language Research, pp. 1-27. doi: 10.1177/0267658319827065
Santesteban, M., Zawiszewski, A., Erdocia, K. & Laka, I. (2017). On the Nature of Clitics and Their Sensitivity to Number Attraction Effects. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1470, 1-21. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01470
Zawiszewski, A. (2017). Processing ergativity: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. In J. Coon, D. Massam, L. Travis, (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity. Oxford University Press, 693 -708. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.28
Egusquiza, N., Navarrete, E. and Zawiszewski, A. (2016). Antecedent frequency effects on anaphoric pronoun resolution: Evidence from Spanish. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 45, 71-84. doi: 10.1007/s10936-014-9325-3
Zawiszewski, A., Santesteban, M., Laka, I. (2016). Phi-features reloaded: An ERP study on person and number agreement processing. Applied Psycholinguistics 37, 601-626. doi: 10.1017/S014271641500017
Zawiszewski, A. (2014). Hizkuntzaren ekoizpena eta ulermena. Ekaia 27, 315-327.
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Nurse infected by Patrick Sawyer
Atqnews on September 27, 2014
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The framed picture of Tochukwu Anunobi, and her husband, Alex, exchanging marital vows has the inscription, 'What God has joined together, let no man put asunder'. This aptly defines the commitment of this couple to their marriage. Tochukwu was one of the nurses who attended to Liberian-American Ebola index case, Patrick Sawyer, at First Consultants Hospital, Obalende, Lagos. She became infected with EVD but survived. Tochukwu shares her story with AHAOMA KANU
What inspired you to become a nurse?
It started when I was in the secondary school.
I used to follow my uncle's wife who is a nurse to go to people's houses to treat them. Whenever she finished putting infusion on her patients, she would go. But I used to go back alone to be taking care of those patients. They usually informed my aunty that I always visited them later to take care of them.
When I finished my secondary school education at Madonna Science School, I actually wanted to study Pharmacy; but my aunty was always urging me to choose nursing.
Then, you were required to get admitted to a school of nursing as the course was not being offered in universities then as a degree programme. I did not succumb to her suggestion as I did not like the sight of blood then. But unfortunately, despite all the JAMB exams I wrote, I did not get the cutoff mark for Pharmacy. My aunty continued to urge me about Nursing so I picked up a form in 2003.
The day I went for the exam, I had a change of mind towards nursing after seeing many of the candidates that came for the exam. We were more than 2000 and only around 200 were to be selected for the programme. I passed the examination as well as the interview and got admitted to the School of Nursing under the Imo State Ministry of Health in Owerri.
I was there for three years. I got married while I was in my final year at the nursing school. I worked with my licence for a year and then returned to Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife to get a degree in Nursing. I also did my midwifery training as well. I graduated in 2013.
I proceeded to look for a job and submitted applications at St. Nicholas, First Consultants and another hospital. I did not really expect to be called by First Consultants as I knew nobody there.
I really was hoping to work at Jolad Hospital at Bariga as it was nearer to the area where I live but First Consultants called me for an interview in November and I resumed with them on November 24, 2013.
How was your new job then?
Honestly, I did not know that the hospital was a very big one. I did not have a chance to get a good grasp of the whole hospital when I was invited for the interview. It is a very big and I discovered that I would learn a lot from them. The hospital has the highest standard in all my working experience. Early this year the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease started in neighbouring countries. Did you in your wildest dream ever think Ebola would be among the cases you would manage? I did not expect it to come into Nigeria.
I was hearing about Ebola but not in Nigeria. I did not even expect that if it eventually got into Nigeria, it would come to First Consultants. I was thinking that it would be in a general hospital and not First Consultants because the kind of patients that come to First Consultants are high class individuals. I knew that ordinary Nigerians could not afford the treatment there.
What are your specific duties at First Consultants as a nurse?
I had general nursing duties; everyday duty allocations are given. It is either you work in the out-patient department; in-patient or theatre. But my name was permanently on the in-patient department where patients are admitted. But that does not mean that is the only place where you were made to work.
Tell me about July 20, the day the late Liberian-American Ebola index case, Patrick Sawyer, was admitted. He was admitted in the evening around 8pm. I was not on duty that day.
He came on his own; you know he was coming for the ECOWAS meeting in Calabar, Cross River State. I think he called some of the ECOWAS staff and was told to stop at Lagos to access the hospital they use here. That was how they brought him to the hospital. I resumed work the next day, being a Monday, July 21. By then, nobody knew he had Ebola and the usual procedure in the hospital is to do some tests before the commencement of treatment. The test conducted was for Malaria Parasite (MP) and it was positive.
That was the diagnosis I met the day I resumed. It was after doctors had administered drugs to the patient on Monday and Tuesday that they started observing other symptoms like vomiting of blood, diarrhea and high fever. It was one of the doctors, Dr. Ada Igonoh, who suggested that they should carry out an Ebola test. She likes browsing the internet. She said there was an outbreak of EVD in Liberia and the patient came from that country.
That was on Tuesday evening but the result came out the next day, Wednesday, which was the day I nursed him. Even before I attended to him, the result was out. I was given protective gear by officers from the Federal Ministry of Health but the gear was different from those the doctors from World Health Organisation wore when they were treating us.
The gear the Federal Ministry of Health gave us was light and did not cover my hands and feet. It was somewhat short-sleeved from the elbow and then at the knee. The quality was poor and was like paper. But the one the WHO doctors wore was an overall of a good quality.
It stretched up to their hands though they wore gloves. They also used clothing that covered their necks and it was only their eyes you see through their goggles. The gear we had did not have all this. We wore gloves and used face masks.
You attended to Patrick Sawyer knowing his EVD status. Were you at any point tempted not to attend to him since you knew his status?
I was not told that he was positive then. It was after nursing the man on Wednesday that I read his folder; but we had already started hearing and reading the news. They did the test and wanted to confirm. We started using the protective gear that morning. Tell me about Patrick Sawyer; so many things have been said about him. As the nurse that attended to him, what kind of person was he? When I entered his room, I noticed that the colour of the eyes was red. And he was a very fat man and fair-complexioned. I also observed tiny reddish rashes on his skin. He was also finding it difficult to breathe since he was vomiting and stooling. He did not have energy.
Did you have a conversation with him?
Yes I did. When I got in, I wanted to give him some IV drugs; the ones he was supposed to take the night before but which he didn't take. The night nurses could not give him the drugs and they logged on his file that the patient refused the drugs that were supposed to be given to him for 10pm medication.
I greeted him and then proceeded to inform him about what I wanted to do. I then asked him why he refused to take his drugs. He said that I just came in and informed him of what I wanted to do and the names of the drugs I wanted to give him. He complained that the night nurses came and started doing their duties without explaining what they wanted to do and so he refused the medications. He was asking me questions pertaining to the nature of the disease and I told him that I did not know anything yet.
I went further to explain to him that we had to cover our noses because the disease he had was contagious and we that were taking care of him had to protect ourselves. I asked him if he was married and he said yes, that he was based in the United States with his wife and kids. He informed me that he actually flew down from the U.S to Liberia but did not tell me the reason why he visited Liberia. He said that he came into Nigeria for a meeting.
I noticed some drugs on his table and at First Consultants, we hold on to patient's drugs until the time you are to be discharged. I saw some Flagyl tablets with him and asked if he had visited another hospital before coming to us. He replied that he brought them along.
He told me that he loved my professionalism and would make me proud. I did not know what he meant by that. When he wanted to make calls, he ran out of credit and then asked me to help him buy airtime but he said he had only dollars on him. I told him that I was already dressed in my uniform and could not go out. I then called someone to help him.
He gave me $30 and I called one of the guys to help him change it and buy a recharge card for him. It was when I wanted to scratch the card for him that I removed my gloves which I had been wearing all along. After scratching the silver panel, I forgot to wear my gloves again and collected his phone to help him load the airtime.
It was when I was loading that I remembered that I was not wearing my gloves. I had to drop the phone and put my gloves back on. That was the first contact I had with him. Also, when I was fixing his IV fluid, the blood was pumping from the cannula l. His blood touched me on my gloved hand. Those were the contacts I had with him.
But many reports had it that Sawyer was not a cooperative patient and was removing his IVs.
Of course, he was troublesome and that was why he infected some of the doctors. That IV cannula is the only thing that will give the patient energy. So the hospital did not want him to die. It was fixed to his vein but he kept removing it and blood was splashing everywhere. In his room, there was blood everywhere and he vomited anyhow as well. He knew what he had but nobody knew from the onset. Even before he could be given a bath, about five men would have to hold him. It was when his actions became too much that Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh went in to caution him. She told him that if he continued being uncooperative, we would stop treating him. Then, he agreed not to remove the IV again.
What kind of doctor was Dr. Adadevoh?
She was one of our senior consultants and was among the pioneers of First Consultants. She was a physician and was in charge of everything to do with medicine.
When it was confirmed that Sawyer had EVD, what precautions did the hospital take?
First they brought the protective gears and then some officers from the Ministry of Health came to see the patient. They also gave us footwear as well as face masks. Immediately you came out from the room, you would remove the gear and wash your hands. We were also made to wear double gloves as well.
Another colleague of yours, Miss Justina Ejelonu, also died.How do you remember her?
She actually started work on Monday; it was her first day at work and she was pregnant. She had not even received any salary. The matron that wanted to put her through used Patrick Sawyer to teach her since the diagnosis then was malaria. Justina resumed work on Monday, July 21, a day after Sawyer was admitted. She fed the man because he was too weak to eat and I think she wore gloves.
That means that you had not got to know yourselves as colleagues?
I just met her that day and on the second day which was Tuesday, July 22, she came to work but was not feeling fine. She said she was taking some anti-malaria drugs and was allowed to rest. Then on Wednesday; she was off-duty. That was the last day that I went to work.
I was to resume on Friday and that was the day I heard that the patient had died.
When he died, can you recall the mood in your work place then?
When I was got to work that Friday and stepped into the hospital premises, I saw many people standing around. I asked the gateman what happened and he informed me that the Liberian man had died and that all the patients in the ward had been evacuated.
There were reports that Patrick Sawyer tried to leave the hospital. How did this happen?
Yes, it did happen. He had his tablet with him in his room and it was when he was browsing and saw his name and picture online that he ran mad. His pictures were everywhere even on social media. When he saw that, he was furious and threw the tablet away.
He started saying that Nigerians were liars and all that. He then started making a move to leave the hospital. He desperately wanted to go for a meeting in Calabar but Dr. Adadevoh prevented that.
Did he ever raise his voice in protest against the hospital's decision?
I am not aware of that. But you know that in the hospital, you may not be there but you have to document whatever happened during your shift so that the next person on duty will be informed.
When you were informed that the Liberian patient had died, what came to your mind?
The news was already everywhere in the media and whenever I tuned to Channels Television, the story was always being talked about.
So after he died, the Ministry of Health officials called all of us that came in contact with him and gave us thermometers and temperature charts to use in checking our temperature. We were told that the symptom was supposed to start from the second day up till 21 days. They gave us a chart to be recording our temperatures for that period. I started having a high temperature on the 19th day. I believe that I broke down then after some of my colleagues started dying; then Justina had died and Mrs. Ukoh, the ward maid, had died as well.
Who was the first person to start showing symptoms? It was the ward maid, Mrs. Ukoh. Patrick Sawyer died on Friday, July 25 and she started developing symptoms on Sunday, July 27.
I was on duty on Sunday when she called the hospital and alerted them to her condition. She asked that the management send an ambulance to come and carry her because she was having sore throat and fever. She said she could not come on her own. The hospital alerted officials of the Ministry of Health and they went to her house and picked her.
I think she died the following day. People that were with her said that immediately she heard that Patrick Sawyer had died, she got into a panic and started sweating. Fear gripped her because she was the person that cleaned up the vomit, blood and all that. When your colleagues started developing symptoms and some died, what was on your mind? I almost collapsed. At a point, I could not eat. These were people that nursed the same man with me and initially, I was afraid that I would eventually die.
My temperature was normal but within me, I was feeling hot and asked people to feel my temperature. Any time I called my pastor, he would assure me that nothing would happen and I should not fear. I said, 'fine, but I am human and have seen my colleagues dying.' It got to a point that I became very lean because I was not eating. Any day I listened to the news, I would break down. I kept going on until the 19th when I checked my temperature and discovered that it was above 37.2. That very day, I went to work and was normal but in the evening, I discovered it. I informed my husband. But from the day I was given the thermometer, I started sleeping in the sitting room, away from my husband. I also asked people staying with me to relocate to my brother's house. I stopped going to the kitchen; my husband was the one that would cook and bring to me. I also asked him to be using gloves and separate buckets, utensils and others. We took the precaution so that if anything happened, it would affect only me. I stopped using the toilet and got an improvised putty bucket for myself.
You made that decision to sacrifice yourself and not infect other members of your family.
Tell me how hard it was for you to have made that decision and kept to it? That was the only thing I could do. I never wanted the chances that if I died, another person would die as well. It was an easy decision to make and I made sure that my husband adhered to it. If it was possible for me to have rented another apartment or lodged in a hotel, I would have done it. If I had kids, I would have sent them away from me because I know there is no how they would not be all over me. That period, I stopped going to the kitchen.
So what steps did you take after you discovered the high temperature?
I first of all called the doctor assigned to me and he simply told me that it remained only two days for me to be free. He said that since I had not exhibited any symptoms, I could not have contracted EVD. I told him that I was having fever.
My husband called an official of the ministry of health and informed her of the development. She then alerted them at Yaba and they came from the Ministry of Health to take me to the Ebola centre. They also disinfected the house.
When they took you from your house to Yaba, how was the journey like to you since it was a situation where you may have returned or not?
When they came in alone, it was so embarrassing.
They came with a big ambulance and were suited in their gear and goggles. People living in my street came out and were staring at me. I think while they were trying to locate my apartment, they asked questions about someone that had Ebola and that made almost everybody know. When I came out, I saw the crowd, the big ambulance and the officials dressed up like they were; I was ashamed. From that day, the stigmatisation against my husband and other tenants in the house where I live started.
They refused to sell things to my husband and other tenants. But I was confident when I got to Yaba. I entered there with my Bible, some money and my phone. When I got there, I was placed inside the 'Suspect Area'. If you then test positive to Ebola, you will be moved to the Quarantine Area.
Can you describe the facility?
The place was lonely at night and very scary. During the day, you will not get the chill but at night, it is another thing.
When I was at the 'Suspect area', I was the only person in the hall. During the day, you would see people walking around but at night, they would go home and you would be alone. It was very difficult to sleep. I had my phone and would call my husband at night to keep me company. Being there was scary. The day I was brought in, I was given a bed and nothing actually happened. The next day, I woke up in the morning thinking they would come and take my sample but they did not come until around 10am.
They gave me malaria tablets and I asked them when they would come to take my sample. They assured me that they would come. They later came in the afternoon and took my sample. In the night, I requested for the result and was told it was not yet out. That was on Friday. On Saturday, I requested for the result and they said they were still on it. The same thing occurred the next day. All this while, I was only given antimalaria drugs, food and water.
What kind of food were you being served?
The people taking care of us would ask what we felt like eating. But in the morning, they usually served tea or pap.
So how did you receive the test result?
It was on Monday when my husband visited. A lady came and asked him to leave but I said it was okay. She then told me that it had been confirmed and that I tested positive to Ebola.
So your husband was visiting you while you were there?
Yes, he was coming but there is a window with a distance where we could stay and talk. You can come but not get inside. Anything he had for me, he would throw it over. When they gave me the news, I laughed and told my husband that it was okay. I was confident because one of my colleagues, Dr. Ada Igonoh, was discharged on Saturday while I was still at the 'Suspect Area'.
So I said to myself and held on to that belief that since Ada came here and was discharged, I would also survive.
Did you meet her?
No, she was the first person that was admitted. And before they discharge you, your blood must test negative to Ebola. So she was being discharged that day. When she was going, I saw her. When you were moved to the quarantine centre, it was either you came out alive or dead.
What was the experience like?
When I was going there, I was not scared because I had already seen Ada go home. I started being positive that I would survive and did not really dwell on what was around me at that time. I believed that I would not die.
It was when I entered the quarantine centre that I saw my colleagues. They were three doctors, a nurse and a patient who was said to be a staff of NNPC. She was treated at our hospital but also contracted Ebola. Her baby was okay. She was delivered through a Caesarean Section. The nurse was the one who travelled to Enugu and she told me about her condition when she was admitted. She said she was having memory loss. I was encouraged by that too because when I was admitted there, I was fully conscious.
She also told me that she was weak and had to be taken to the ambulance. But I had walked to the ambulance on my own. So these positive thoughts kept me believing that I would survive. It is funny now when I remember that moment because when I came in, the nurse made a light joke, asking me what I was doing there.
I replied that they told me to come and join them and we all laughed. One of the male doctors was not looking alright to me. When I greeted him, his response was somehow. I asked the others and was told that he had been behaving that way for some time. They were saying that maybe the Ebola had affected his brain.
Did you have access to newspapers or books?
Yes, they were bringing books for us to read. What kind of books? Novels and newspapers, anything that you wanted to read so you wouldn't feel lonely. I went there with my Bible and my hymn book; so I meditated on them. The day I was admitted to the quarantine centre was the day two doctors and the nurse who went to Enugu were discharged. Their discharge also strengthened me the more and before they left, the nurse advised me to take whatever they gave me, including the food and the ORS water.
Initially, I was not eating and packed all the food for them to come and take them away. She told me that if I wanted to come out of this place alive, I should obey whatever instruction I was given.
She said that Dr. Ada told her that and that at times, she had to force herself to eat the food and drink the ORS. After they were discharged, I was left with the other doctor.
Was Dr. Adadevoh not in the quarantine centre with you?
Yes. But I heard that initially she was being treated in another room and was later moved into the quarantine centre.
Describe her condition when she was brought in.
When I came in, she was in a coma and was under an oxygen mask. The quarantine centre is a hall with 14 beds; seven were put at one end and the other at the other for the male and female sections. A screen was used to demarcate the sections. So it was only I and Dr. Adadevoh that were in the female section. She was at the extreme end and I was in the centre. At night, I could hear her breathing and her oxygen mask was making some kind of noise.
How long were you there before she gave up?
I entered on Monday and she died on Tuesday evening. In fact, on Monday night, I was looking at her and praying for her not to die. The next day, around 5pm, I saw them removing everything – the catheter, the oxygen and others. I knew that she was gone. After they finished, one of the WHO doctors came to me and said they were sorry, that Adadevoh could not make it. I was scared because it was almost night and I was wondering how I was going to sleep that night.
You were still the only one there?
I was the only one now alive in the female section of the ward. They used a white cloth to cover her from head to toe. After that, they left.
They left her corpse there?
Yes, they left and came back around 9pm to finally remove the corpse. I was scared and had to move to the male section of the ward. Even the doctor was scared also and shifted towards me.
We now had our beds closer. Her corpse was still there and we were looking at our boss lying down there dead. It was scary and it was night. When they later came for her, I covered my ears not to hear what they were doing. They first of all decontaminated the body, the bed and sheets with Chlorine water. They later took her away. At the back of the centre, there was a pit dug there and that is where they usually burn anything that comes out of the ward. That place is very quiet at night and is really a dead zone.
They would be waiting for you to either die or survive. If you die, they do to you what they do to the dead and if you survive, you leave the place. That night and every other night, I could not sleep.
What then did you do at night?
I just closed my eyes and still would not sleep. I was very scared.
What was going on in your mind?
Were you thinking about your husband, family and loved ones?
I tried to but I was seeing blood.
Whenever I closed my eyes, I would be seeing red and be remembering the faces of my colleagues that had died. That scared me the more. I used to hear noises outside the building. That place has some bush behind and you would hear the birds singing in the night. That place is not good for somebody to stay in.
Were you not praying since you went there with your Bible and hymn book?
I was praying inside my heart. I usually closed my eyes since I could not sleep and pray. I would get up and read my Bible in the night since that was the only book I went there with. There was a day that the other doctor told me that in the morning that I was not going to meet him alive.
I told him not to say that since I would not be able to stay there on my own. He said that in the night he always felt like someone was pressing him down with a pillow. It was on Saturday night that I experienced it. When I told him about my experience, he was like that was what he had been telling me.
How was the security in that place?
I don't know about the security in the facility but at night, we were left on our own. The doctors would leave while the other people would go home.
If there was any adequate security, I am not aware of it. The only thing I know is that every night, we were on our own.
Did you try to walk around?
That day, I told the officials that if they did not discharge me, I would run away. But how would I have fled? They then asked me if I had any favourite pastor that I may want to hear his or her messages.
They later said they would bring some messages to me and some drugs to make me sleep. The messages were church services which would make you have the feeling of being in a service along with the crowd.
The place was like the mortuary of a hospital, very scary and lonely.
How long were you there?
I was there for 11 days.
All the while, were they testing your sample?
I moved into the facility on Thursday and later transferred to the quarantine section on Monday. It was the following Monday that they came and took my sample and told me that it was negative. But they could not bathe and discharge me since it was night.
On Tuesday morning, they came to bathe me in order to decontaminate me. It was only my wedding ring that I came out with; every other thing I went in with, my phones, my clothes, even some money I had were burnt.
When the result came back negative, what was the first thing you did?
I started praising God. I then called my husband to give him the news.
I was already sleeping when one of the WHO doctors came and congratulated me, saying that my blood tested negative. I was very happy. She broke the news to me through the barrier because she was not wearing her gear. I came in and broke the news to the wife of one of our doctors who died of Ebola.
The wife was brought in later as she tested positive as well.
What about the other doctor that was in quarantine with you?
He was discharged on the day my result came in late. They had been testing him all along. He stayed there for almost three weeks. He was being told he had traces of Ebola before he eventually tested negative.
While he was going on that Monday, he told me that my sample would come out negative. It was that day that my sample was taken.
When you called your husband, what did you tell him precisely?
I had already told him that he should go and buy new clothes for me as I knew I would be discharged. When I called him, I was happy and told him that I tested negative; and he was happy.
The next day, my husband bought new clothes, shoes and undies for me. They bathed me with chlorine water and brought a new towel. Then after cleaning myself, they gave me the new clothes to wear. I handed my wedding ring to them and they disinfected it. When I was coming out, they sprayed something on every path I stepped on until I left the contaminated area.
When you moved out, what did you do?
I ran to my husband and hugged him very tight. I was shedding tears but I was thankful that I survived.
When you were taken from your house to the centre, there was a crowd watching. When you came home, how was the reception?
We came home in the morning and we came in quietly. It was later that some of our neighbours started visiting to thank God with me. Some came while others were still scared.
What relationship do you still have with First Consultants?
I am still working there but I have not resumed yet. We were advised to be taking our medications for two weeks. I don't even have a uniform now because everything I had was disposed of. If I resume now, I will need to get everything new.
How eager are you to return to work?
Yes, I am very eager to start working.
It is a profession I chose and I will keep doing my job.
Will you attend to an Ebola patient if you come across one?
I will require the safety gear that the WHO doctors had on when they were treating us. If not, I will not. If the correct gear was given to us that first day, the casualty rate would have been lower. If I am given the gear that the Ministry of Health gave us, I will reject it because that was what we wore and ended up getting infected.
How did your family receive the news?
Honestly, up till now I have not informed my parents. When the whole thing was happening, my husband informed my brother. I told my younger sister who was staying with me not to tell anybody. One of my brothers who lives in Onitsha came to Lagos to purchase a car. He made arrangements to put up in my place but I told him I was posted for training. We had not seen in a long while.
He called me while I was at Yaba, describing the car he bought but never knew what was happening. When I was discharged, I called him and told him and he was annoyed because he said he would have visited me there. I begged him not to inform my parents yet because they would want to see me physically in order to believe him. I will make out time and travel home to inform them myself.
In this whole experience, what will you say made you come out of this alive?
I must be honest with you. At the initial stage, I never thought I would come out of this alive.
I asked my husband and the church to pray for me. There were prayers going on for me. At a point, I wanted to die because I was too weak to do anything. But I was asking God to give me one more chance because I have parents and did not want my parents to bury me; instead it should be me doing that.
I believed God gave me a second chance. How do you remember your colleagues who could not make it?
It is still painful, I must say. Anytime I remember them, I shed tears, especially for Dr. Adadevoh. On the day she died, some of the officials there cried.
While she was in a coma, they were praying for her. I am praying to God to grant them eternal rest because while they were trying to help a fellow human being, they lost their lives.
What sacrifice is greater than that?
President Goodluck Jonathan called Patrick Sawyer a 'crazy man' and Nigerians have rained all manner of abuses on him. Being someone that nursed him and observed him closely.
Did he deserve the names Nigerians are calling him?
He deserved it because he knew what he had and kept it to himself. We later learnt from the Federal Ministry of Health when they contacted their Liberian counterparts that the man flew into Liberia for the burial of his sister, who died of Ebola causes.
They kept him in surveillance and he escaped. We also learnt from sources that when they played the footage when he was at the airport in Liberia, he was avoiding contact with people.
But on arriving in Nigeria, he left himself to be contacted anyhow. He knew what he had. When Dr. Adadevoh asked him questions concerning his contact with anybody with Ebola, he said he had none. If he had been truthful, they could have managed him and who knows, he could have been alive today. But he lied and put others in danger.
That was the reason he was urinating everywhere and vomiting everywhere. He was also changing beds anyhow. Thank God there was no other patient admitted in the same ward as it was a two-bed ward. He would sleep on one bed one minute and the next, he would be on the other. And he also scattered the bed sheets.
There were times he would purposely remove his clothes and be naked. While I was nursing him, I asked him how many times he stooled that day and he told me to go to the toilet and look at the faeces. He kept telling me to go into the toilet and check it. I had to enter the toilet because he kept the tissue there instead of leaving it on the bedside cupboard.
And when changing IV, you need tissue to prevent the blood from coming out. I did the first one and noticed blood coming out, and I had no choice than to enter the bathroom and get the tissue.
The man was just a mad man and knew what he had; he wanted to infect people.
Posted by Juliana Francis
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Place baking cups in muffin pans; set aside.
Prepare cake mix following package directions for 24 cupcakes. Spoon batter into baking cups and bake as directed; cool completely.
Tint frosting with orange food coloring; frost cupcakes. Sprinkle with Halloween decorator sprinkles, if desired.
Melt white chocolate chips following package directions.
Add shortening; stir until melted.
Spoon melted morsels into ghost shapes on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper. Use mini chocolate chips or black gel for eyes. Let rest until ghost shapes have hardened and set.
Stand one ghost in center of each cupcake.