Teachers, school administrators and other school employees play a vital role in society in educating our children. They spend many years in colleges and universities learning what to teach, how to teach, how to discipline and learning basic administrative skills. However, teachers are not taught what to do and what rights they have if they are injured at school.
In general the school environment is safe with little risk of injury. In fact, with proper precaution, many accidents can be prevented, such as slip and fall accidents on liquid spills or on slippery floors or students running through the hallways and knocking down a teacher. The prevention of accidents will keep school personnel upright and able to perform their important daily responsibilities.
However, sometimes accidents happen. This article teaches teachers, administrators and other school employees what to do if they are injured at school.
Jurisdiction over school injuries or any workplace injury is with New Jersey's workers' compensation courts. There are many rules and procedures that have to be followed when a school employee is injured.
Under the workers' compensation Premises Rule, any injury that occurs on school property during school hours is considered a workers' compensation injury. If an employee is involved in a motor vehicle accident before reaching the school premises or on a road on the way home from school, a workers' compensation case cannot be filed because the injury has no connection to the school or school premises. In those cases, a case can be filed in New Jersey Superior Court if some type of negligence was involved. However, a teacher who twists an ankle in the parking lot or who slips in the cafeteria has the right to file a workers' compensation case if his or her injury has a lasting effect. The next consideration is how the injury occurred. If a school employee is injured while performing a personal errand such as going to the Post Office during school hours, then this injury would not be compensable because it was not connected to the school. Any other injury, including one that takes place during a break is a valid workers' compensation injury. In fact even if the injury was your fault you can still file a workers' compensation claim. For example, if a school employee is on a cell phone and does not notice a stairway there is no percentage of fault taken from an award in workers' compensation court for not paying attention.
If you are injured on school property as discussed above, the first thing you should do is to report it to your school office or to the administrator in charge. By law, every employer in New Jersey, including schools, has to have workers' compensation insurance to cover injuries. Many districts are self-insured and appoint administrative companies to handle their claims. The school official in charge of injuries has to take the injury information from the employee and report the injury in writing to the workers' compensation insurance company. That same individual will tell you what medical provider or hospital you must go to for treatment for your injury. In workers' compensation cases, because the workers' compensation insurance company pays for all of your medical bills, this company has the right to choose and direct your medical treatment. Although you can go to your own doctor for treatment, your private health insurance company will most likely deny payment because it will be considered a work related injury and thus compensable under the school's workers' compensation insurance. If, during your treatment with the authorized medical provider, you believe that you are not receiving proper or helpful medical care, you have the right to request a second opinion from the workers' compensation insurance company. You also have the right to hire a workers' compensation attorney to assist you in obtaining different medical care.
How do I get paid while I am out of work due to my injury?
If you are out of work for your injury for less than seven days, you have to use your sick days or vacation days. If you are out of work for more than seven days, some school districts will continue to pay your salary at 100%. In general, however, employees receive 70% of their gross weekly salary from the workers' compensation insurance company if they are out of work for more than seven days. The decision of how long the employee stays out of work is made by the authorized treating medical provider.
What are the benefits of filing a workers' compensation case?
The answer to the question above is dependent upon the type and severity of the injury. For permanent injuries, meaning those that will have lasting or residual effects, you have the right to hire a workers' compensation attorney to file a formal claim petition in the workers' compensation court that covers the county that you live in. If you have a minor finger or toe injury you can file an informal claim petition yourself, without an attorney, in the same court.
After a formal or informal case is filed, a judge assigned to your case will eventually award you a monetary award if the evidence shows that you have some type of permanent injury. In formal cases, the attorney receives a 20% fee, paid from the award. There is no fee to file a case in workers' compensation court and there is no fee to consult with a workers' compensation attorney to discuss your injury or your rights in general. Any monetary award that is received is tax free. In addition, in many instances, your case is left open for two additional years after it is finished in court and you receive your award. Therefore, if your injury worsens after your case is finished you may have the right to reopen your case within two years for additional medical treatment or to request a higher monetary award.
May I file a case for occupational injuries from my school job?
occupational exposure cases in which a worker develops an injury over a period of time.
In the school setting, for example, a secretary, administrative assistant, teacher, or cafeteria worker could develop hand or wrist problems from repetitive use of a computer, filing, phone use or writing. In order to file an occupational exposure claim in workers' compensation court, there must be proof that the injury is connected or related to your school work; you must have medical evidence that the injury was actually caused by the work related exposure. The "legal" standard in an occupational case is whether the injury more likely developed due to the nature of your work as opposed to activities performed at home or in your spare time. Unfortunately, because most workers' compensation insurance companies will deny an occupational exposure case, you will probably have to use your private health insurance for initial treatment and diagnosis of an injury. Once it has been determined that there is an occupational injury you should work with an attorney to make sure that a workers' compensation claim is filed.
Could I get harassed or fired for getting injured at work or filing a case?
New Jersey workers' compensation law states that a worker who gets injured cannot get harassed or fired by his or her employer. Specifically, it is a violation of New Jersey Statute 34:15-39.1 to fire or discriminate against an employee for seeking workers' compensation benefits. If this Statute is violated, the employer is subject to a fine and is required to reinstate the employee with back pay.
Am I allowed to ever sue my school for negligence?
An injured worker cannot sue his or her employer for negligence in Superior Court unless there is proof that the employer intended to injure the employee. For example, if a school knowingly had asbestos in its buildings for many years and did nothing to warn its employees or remove the conditions, the school could be sued for negligence because it could be argued that the school acted intentionally in failing to warn its employees of a known dangerous condition.
In the school setting there are circumstances when a student with a troubled background might injure a teacher or school employee. New Jersey courts have held that this type of circumstance is not an intentional wrong but is part of school life. Therefore, a teacher injured by a student known to have discipline problems may only file a case in workers' compensation court but cannot sue the school for negligence.
Accidents happen and sometimes they happen at work. As a teacher, administrator or other school employee, you have the right to make sure that you are made whole if you are injured while you are working. Should you get hurt, there is recourse both through your school and with a competent workers' compensation attorney.
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Is the Right Side of a Car the Passenger Side?
Yes, the right side of a car is the passenger side. The driver's seat is on the left, and the passenger seat is on the right.
This makes sense because you're sitting in front of your car with your left side facing forward.
Definition of the passenger side
The passenger side is defined as the side of a car where the driver sits.
The driver's seat is on the left side of a vehicle in countries that drive on the right side of the road, and vice versa in countries that drive on the left side of the road.
What is the right side of a car?
The right side of the car is the side where the steering wheel is located.
The driver sits on the left side of the car, while passengers sit on the right.
The passenger seat is usually located on the right side of a vehicle, although some vehicles are designed with seats facing each other in the backseat.
Why is it called the passenger side?
The passenger side of the car is called that because it's on the opposite side of the driver.
It's called the passenger side because most cars are designed to be driven by one person; therefore, the seat on this side is for the passenger.
How passenger side came to be used in cars?
The passenger side came to be used in cars because it was the side that was closest to the curb, and therefore easier for drivers to get in and out of their cars.
How to determine if you're on the passenger side?
If you want to know if you're on the passenger side, there are a few ways to find out.
You can look at the driver's seat and see if it's empty.
Then congratulations! You're on the passenger side. If not, then move along to the next step: checking your mirrors.
If you have a mirror that shows what's behind your car, try looking at that.
If there's a lot of space between cars in front of and behind you, then there's a good chance that you're on the passenger side.
If not if there are lots of other cars around it means that someone else is driving, and therefore they must be sitting in their own seat (and therefore must be driving).
Why do they keep doing it?
When cars were first being built and sold, there was no such thing as an automatic transmission.
Drivers had to manually shift gears with their left hand, which meant that the driver's side of the car was on the left-hand side.
That way, if you were driving with your right hand on the wheel and your left hand changing gears, you could still reach across to open the door on your right side (without having to move over).
Most cars have automatic transmissions, drivers can change gears with either hand while keeping both hands on the wheel thereby allowing them to use their right hand for opening doors without having to move into another lane.
The right side of a car is not the passenger side. The driver's side is the passenger side, and the left side is the driver's side.
The left side of a car is where you put your foot on to get out, and it has storage bins.
The right side has pedals, and it has storage bins as well.
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Q: Getting arrayoutofbond error while running java code
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*I am getting arrayoutofbond error while running below given code,
sometime it is running as expected and sometime it is giving error.
Could anyone help me where I am wrong.
   import java.io.BufferedReader;
   import java.io.BufferedWriter;
   import java.io.File;
   import java.io.FileInputStream;
   import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
   import java.io.FileWriter;
   import java.io.IOException;
   import java.io.InputStreamReader;
   import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
   import java.util.ArrayList;
   import java.util.Date;

   public class getFileContent{

    public void listFiles() throws IOException, InterruptedException{

        File directory = new File("C:\\ScriptLogFile\\");
        File[] myarray;
        myarray=directory.listFiles();
        int i=0;
        ArrayList<String> arrayList = new ArrayList<String>();
        SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyyyy_hhmmss");
        Date curDate = new Date();
        String strDate = sdf.format(curDate);
        String fileName = strDate;
        File file = new File("C:\\ExcelReport_"+fileName+".csv");
        FileWriter fileWritter = new FileWriter(file, true);
        BufferedWriter bwr = new BufferedWriter(fileWritter);
        String filename = null;
        try {
            for (int j = 0; j < myarray.length; j++)
            {
                File path=myarray[j];
                FileInputStream  fis = new FileInputStream (path);
                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(fis));
                if(path.isFile()){
                    if(path.getName().endsWith(".csv")){
                        filename = path.getName();
                        String line;
                        bwr.write(filename+",");
                        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
                            if(line.contains("-")){
                                String[] part = line.split("-");
                                arrayList.add(part[1]);
                                bwr.write(arrayList.get(i)+",");
                                i++;
                            }
                            else{

                            }
                        }
                        bwr.write("\r\n");
                    }
                }

            }
        }catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        bwr.close();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        getFileContent gfc = new getFileContent();
        gfc.listFiles();
    }
   }

A: We need a stack trace to see where the exception is raised. However you seem to be making assumptions about the length of part[]. Remember arrays are 0-indexed, the first entry would be at index 0 i.e. part[0]. Even then, in general there really needn't be many entries at all: "xyz".split("-") is an array of length 1 whose only element, "xyz", is at index 0.

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Q: Parse limits on orQueries I am having a difficult time finding any documentation on Parse that answers the question I have. Here is a example of what I need.
let colorQuery1 = PFQuery(classname: "colors")
colorQuery1.whereKey("color", equalTo: red)

let colorQuery2 = PFQuery(classname: "colors")
colorQuery2.whereKey("color", equalTo: blue)

let colorQuery3 = PFQuery(classname: "colors")
colorQuery3.whereKey("color", equalTo: green)

let mainColorQuery = PFQuery.orQueryWithSubqueries([colorQuery1, colorQuery2, colorQuery3])
mainColorQuery.findObjectsInBackgroundWithBlock {
(objects, error) -> Void in
// retrieve data
}

My problem is that I would like to retrieve approximately 15 items from the first two queries then approximately 150 items from the last query. This is not allowed because I cannot set limits on subQueries. I am also curious to know the default limits on the queries in this instance. In the example I provided, If there are a 1000 objects that are red will the mainQuery return only 100 or 1000 red objects and then the second and third queries be left blank? Help me find a way to limit the subQueries please.

A: All queries have a default limit of 100 and a max limit of 1000.  OR'ing several that combine to > 1k results will generate a subset of 1k related (I think) to the order that the queries are passed.
But in your case, you can get much more control by replacing the OR'd queries with a single one that uses containedIn to specify the disjunction...
let colors = ["red", "blue", "green"]
query.whereKey("color", containedIn: colors)
query.limit = 1000  // still the max

With this single query, you can add additional constraints to limit the result count, and/or execute it repeatedly with a skip to page through >1k results.


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As a business manager it is more important than ever to keep track of your employees and the projects that they are working on. You need to know when they are coming to work and when they are leaving. Employees with a good attendance are going to be more valuable and productive and should be rewarded for these efforts. Of course, tracking attendance is much easier said than done when you are dealing with multiple employees. This is why you need a good automated attendance system that can help you with the tracking of employee's attendance and the Outlook Calendar together with the right time reporting solution can help you do just that.
Productivity is without a doubt one of the most important factors in any business. If your employees aren't being productive or you aren't using them in a manner that is productive then you are just wasting resources. That being said, it can be hard to track employees and monitor their times when you have a rather large workforce. In fact, this is something that can be hard to accomplish with a small number of employees. This is why good time tracking software is invaluable to the modern business manager. With this software, you will be able to see which employees are working on which projects at all times.
If you notice that you have two similar projects going on at the same time, but one project seems to be taking more time, you can allocate resources from one project to the other in order to speed of the completion of the project that is completing at a slower rate.
Learning a new system for time tracking can be a scary thought for many businesses. This is because retraining employees and teaching them new methods or techniques can take a lot of time. Not to mention that your workflow is interrupted in the process. When employees are in training they are not able to focus fully on projects and other important tasks at hand. Of course, sometimes retraining is necessary to make your company run smoother. Fortunately, when you invest in the right time tracking software this is something that you will not have to worry about. The good thing about the right time tracking software is that it easily integrates with Microsoft Outlook.
This means that you can use your Outlook calendar appointments for time tracking, making it extremely easy since the information is already there. This in turn makes the whole process almost automated, since it requires very little on the part of your employees, compared to products where you need to enter another system and enter your time manually.
This is probably the solution for scheduling and email that you and your employees are already very familiar with. Since you and your employees are so familiar with the program there will probably be little to no training involved with the transition process. If you know how to use Outlook Calendar, it will be extremely easy for you to use the time reporting software that integrates with it.
The employees really are the lifeblood of any business. They are the ones that are on the front lines every day communicating with customers and completing the crucial projects on time. This is why it is important to make sure your employees are happy within the workplace. The happier the employee is, the more productive he or she is going to be. and there simply is no better way to make an employee happy than by letting them know that their hard work is recognized and appreciated. Time tracking software can help you with this.
With time reporting software and an automated attendance system, you can pull reports and see which employees are putting in the most hours, which employees are getting their projects completed on time, and you can even see which employees are showing up on time every day. You can then reward these employees with in-house promotions, raises or sometimes even just a nice word of encouragement will go a long way.
How many reports come across your desk in a single workday or week? For large companies, this could probably be anywhere from thirty to forty reports maybe even more. Many of these reports will require your approval and attention. And, the worst part is that they are probably filled with tons of information that you really don't need to know. You probably find yourself sifting through them for hours at a time before you find the crucial information that you need. Well, this is where proper time tracking software really excels. It allows you to create customized reports so that you only get the information that you need and want. This will save you a whole lot of work and time.
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TRUNK ARCHIVE is a boutique agency based in New York City that represents the archives of the world's leading fashion, celebrity, still life and landscape photographers. Every artist on their roster is acknowledged as being among the very best in his / her genre. To highlight the impressive diversity of images available at TRUNK ARCHIVE we have selected a group of amazing artists to feature in this launch collection.
One of the greatest compliments Patrick Demarchelier ever received came from the legendary Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour: "Every woman looks more beautiful, and more like herself, through Demarchelier's lens." The most important moment during a shoot, explains Demarchelier, is between relaxation and concentration, when the models often feel they are not being watched. This is when his favourite images appear, celebrations of a unique style that has made him one of the most sought after fashion photographers in the world.
Before moving from Paris to New York in 1975, Demarchelier had worked as an assistant to Henri Cartier-Bresson and had begun to shape his own style of modest elegance in magazines such as ELLE and Marie Claire. Through masterful lighting and perspective he is able to create a perfect composition between proportion and subject. To him, the view through the camera is a magical moment and photography itself a particularly physical process. Demarchelier therefore prefers to take photos by hand rather than from a tripod, and this allows him to react spontaneously to the models.
The most spectacular photos from the last forty years of his career, which include countless covers from Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, are probably his portraits of Princess Diana in 1989. It was the very first time a French photographer was commissioned by the British royal family. Though a natural, radiant icon, Diana does not appear untouchable in the images, but displays instead a stunning charm.
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1943 born in Le Havre, France
1975 moves to New York, USA
Worked together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Terry King and Jaques Guilbert
Lives and works in New York, USA
2008 Lucie Award, Achievement in Fashion
2007 Eleanor Lambert Award
2012 Diana Vishneva Through The Lens Of Patrick Demarchelier, House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
2009 Patrick Demarchelier – Images et Mode a Paris, Petit Palais, Paris, France
2008 Patrick Demarchelier – Photographs, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Patrick Demarchelier – Part 1, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Patrick Demarchelier, Young Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Patrick Demarchelier, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1999 Patrick Demarchelier – New Photographs, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1997 Patrick Demarchelier, Revelando la elegancia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexiko
1995 Patrick Demarchelier – Selected Photographs, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
2012 Fashion Clicks, Photographica Fine Art, Lugano, Switzerland
2011 Dance In Vogue, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
Harper's Bazaar - A Decade of Style, ICP - International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2009 Isabelle Huppert - Woman of Many Faces, UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Transphotographiques, Lille, France
Christian Dior - 60 Years of Photography, Moscow Museum of Modern Art - MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
2003 Vanity Fair, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Archeology of Elegance, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany
2002 Archeology of Elegance, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
1998 The Sound of One Hand, Apexart, New York, USA
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Exploring the intention to react to aggressive action among Israeli adolescents
Zeev Winstok, Guy Enosh
The aim of the current study was to explore male and female adolescents' intentions to react to verbal and physical aggression issued by other males and females of the same age. The study is based on a sample of 292 male and female adolescents from 12 classes in four schools in northern Israel, two junior-high and two high-schools, 46.7% were males and 53.3% females. Sixteen short scenarios were presented to the interviewees, consisting of eight verbal provocations (four by males and four by females) and eight physical provocations. The results indicated that girls and boys perceived provocation differently. Males are more "gender oriented," whereas girls are more "content oriented," Males attend more to details of physical aggression, whereas females to details of verbal aggression. Yet, males are most concerned with the gender of the provocateur, whereas females are more attentive to the severity of the provocation, thus differentiating between verbal and physical forms of provocation, as representing different levels of attack, and within each form, differentiating along a continuum of severity of the attack. The results are discussed within the theoretical framework of reactive aggression.
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ASX-listed biotech company Circadian Technologies Limited has slashed days from the time required to prepare its half-yearly financial reports after replacing MYOB with Microsoft Dynamics NAV from Evolution Business Systems (EBS). Until Microsoft Dynamics NAV was deployed last year, taking annual leave over Christmas was unknown to Circadian's finance staff, who regularly burnt the midnight oil to deliver half-year reports for board signoff by February.
In recent years, Circadian has doubled its expenditure on research and development (R&D) in cancer therapeutics, which involves organisations in Australia, the US and the United Kingdom. As the company grew in complexity, it outgrew MYOB which required it to maintain five separate databases for subsidiary companies, with no functionality to consolidate results automatically for reporting and analysis. Heavy reliance on spreadsheets and manual rekeying of data increased the risk of errors occurring.
After reviewing the market, Circadian Technologies decided to purchase the Microsoft Dynamics NAV enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, supplied and supported by Melbourne-based EBS. The deployment started in August 2010, with the system going live in November.
Circadian Technologies Finance Manager and Company Secretary, Susan Madden, said Microsoft Dynamics NAV had dramatically reduced the amount of time required to prepare the half-year financial reports for 2010.
Circadian Technologies Limited is an emerging leader in the field of angiogenesis-based treatments for cancer.


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Since its first publication in 1959, The Nongraded Elementary School has become a classic in school reform literature. This reissue includes a retrospective introduction on what happened to nongraded alternatives in the aftermath of "Sputnik" educational reforms, what is occurring amid the current resurgence of school reform, and what the prospects are for the future. The value of this book lies in its still contemporary theoretical underpinnings for the nongraded school. The book's treatment of the issue of promotion versus non-promotion is of particular interest in the current debate on school reform.


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SMEs across the UK remain defiant despite Brexit uncertainty and challenges around the growing skills gap.This was the over-arching message to come out of new research commissioned on behalf of Yorkshire Bank. And it was explored further during a lively morning debate as three Greater Manchester entrepreneurs shared a stage with head of Business Banking at CYBG, Graeme Sands and economist and writer for The Telegraph Liam Halligan.
With an increasingly turbulent market, political uncertainty and increasing digital competition business owners have to show some real grit to succeed as an SME in 2019.Representing a spread of sectors Elizabeth Clark, CEO of Dream Agility, Liam Manton, co-founder of Didsbury Gin, and Charmaine O'Connor, CEO, of P.P. O'Connor picked their way through Brexit, finance, technology, infrastructure and human resources - the five main topics of the report. Hosted by BBC presenter Nicholas Owen, the invigorating session highlighted the balancing act of keeping confidence high while planning for an uncertain future. See the full article here


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Biotech Funding in New York: We Have Some Catching Up to Do
Arlene Weintraub
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Xconomy New York —
According to figures released this morning by Dow Jones VentureSource, 21 NYC-area biotech startups have been funded so far this year, down from 28 by the end of the third quarter of 2010. The dollar amounts have dropped, too: VCs have invested just $200 million in New York biotechs so far this year, compared to $294 million invested through Q3 last year.
If we're to have any hope of matching last year's haul—37 New York biotechs raised a total of $384.4 million in 2010—we'll need to see some big deals, and fast.
It's not that the VC world has soured on the life sciences. To the contrary: According to figures released earlier this week by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the biggest deal of the third quarter—in any industry—was pulled off by Reata Pharmaceuticals, an Irving, TX-based biotech that raised $300 million. Reata is in late-stage trials of a drug to treat chronic kidney disease.
We can't very well gripe that VCs are ignoring New York, either. The Big Apple, after all, is home to two of the top 10 money raisers of the third quarter: blog hosting platform Tumblr, which raised $85 million, and ZocDoc, the online doctor-appointment booking site that pulled in $75 million from Goldman Sachs and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner's DST Global. Venture capital investing overall jumped 31 percent over the third quarter a year ago, according to PriceWaterhouse/NVCA.
Part of the reason biotech funding may be down in New York stems from the sheer challenge of being a biotech in the Big Apple. That's one of the topics that came up at New York Life Sciences 2031, Xconomy's October 13 forum on the future of biotech in the city. "Most startups that are scrappy and saving their pennies can't afford to be here," said panelist Barbara Dalton, a longtime VC who is now the vice president of venture capital for Pfizer (NYSE: PFE). "My funds have invested in great companies in New York. They all reach a time where they have to grow beyond five people in a lab and they have to leave Manhattan."
But it's not all doom and gloom for biotech fundraising in New York. In fact, the city kicked off Q4 with a pretty good one: On October 19, NYC-based Imagen Biotech announced that it sewed up a $40 million Series A financing from SV Life Sciences, Novo Ventures, and Fidelity Biosciences. Imagen is working on treatments for degenerative eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration. Its management team is a who's-who of ophthalmology that includes Matthew Feinsod and David Guyer, formerly of Eyetech Pharmaceuticals—the New York startup that was bought by OSI Pharmaceuticals (now Astellas) for $935 million in 2005.
Now if we could just get a few more deals like Imagen's Series A, perhaps biotech funding in New York this year will indeed measure up to 2010.
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Ramiro Osorio Cristales was just 5 years old on the day the Earth stood still.
Now, 31 years later, he remembers the events of that day — Dec. 7, 1982 — with almost preternatural clarity.
When he speaks to a reporter on the phone, Osorio has only recently returned to Canada from a late-September journey to Riverside, Calif., where he testified as the final witness for the prosecution at the trial of Jorge Sosa Orantes, a former Guatemalan army officer and alleged war criminal.
He does live with sadness, however — sadness and a quantity of fear. Who in his place would not?
More than three decades after that grim day, Osorio agrees to tell his story on two conditions: that his Canadian hometown not be revealed, and that his wife and their two youngsters not be identified.
What follows is the story of three men — one, a survivor of war crimes; the other two, alleged war criminals — whose lives have continued to intersect over the years, ever since the Earth stood still one day in an Indian village called Dos Erres, in a remote region of northern Guatemala known as the Petén.
This is also a tale about the slow pace of justice, the long reach of memory, and the mysterious ways in which an atrocity's horror can be tempered, at least a little, by time and hope.
Two of the men in this story are now Canadian citizens. They weren't then.
He means his mother and father, himself and his seven siblings. He also means the other residents of Dos Erres, all asleep, none dreaming of what was to come.
Not long before sunrise, roughly 20 Guatemalan soldiers advanced into the village on foot, all of them members of an elite combat force known as the kaibiles.
More troops, about 40, set up a security perimeter on the outskirts of the hamlet so that no one could enter — or escape.
By the time the soldiers departed the following afternoon, only four villagers were still breathing — Osorio and three others.
More than 200 people were murdered, an atrocity that would sear itself into Guatemala's collective memory as possibly the most brutal among hundreds of similar massacres committed by the military during that country's civil war of the 1980s and '90s.
For many years, the massacre at Dos Erres remained a terrible secret, its grisly details buried as deeply as the corpses of those who had been mutilated and murdered. Residents of neighbouring villages suspected the truth but kept silent out of a desperate fear.
That dread was the central purpose of the whole murderous enterprise. It was the savage logic of the war, a conflict waged in large part by striking terror into the hearts and minds of the innocent.
In all, upwards of 200,000 people are believed to have perished in Guatemala's long civil war, most of them Mayan Indians who dwelled in mud-brick villages scattered across northern Guatemala near the border with Mexico. There, it was easy for leftist rebels to proselytize for support among a population that had long been neglected or oppressed.
The army's brutal strategy against Indian targets also reflected a deeply ingrained racism typical of Central America's civil wars of the 1980s, in which mainly indigenous soldiers were loosed upon mainly indigenous victims. It was Indians who were forced to do most of the killing and most of the dying.
The outrages committed on Dec. 7, 1982, would become known as the massacre at Dos Erres. They are, in one sense, an old story, brutal acts that were carried out long ago. In another sense, their terror resonates and will go on reverberating as long as anyone with firsthand memories continues to draw breath.
"I heard a knock at the door," says Osorio.
With that knock, the horrors commenced.
First, the invaders roused all the villagers. The men were hauled to the school; the women and children were taken to the church.
It was not long before they understood.
The indictment handed down against Jorge Sosa by a federal grand jury in Orange County, Calif., in September 2010 captures the barbarity of the ensuing events in just a few gruesome images.
Osorio was too young to understand much of what was happening, except that it was both terrifying and deadly.
The soldiers took her away, in the direction of the well, along with all her children, save one.
By some trick of fate, when the screams died down, Osorio found himself in the church, alive and all but alone.
Three others would also survive the massacre, including two boys, aged 3 and 12. A fourth villager, an adult, was away from Dos Erres at the time, tending a relative's fields, and so survived as well.
Eventually, Osorio fell asleep, curled up on one of the church's wooden pews. It would turn out that he and the 3-year-old had been selected for adoption.
Eventually, a blue-and-white helicopter landed. It picked up the young survivors and their captors and flew to a military school in the Petén.
Eventually, Osorio was taken under the wing of an instructor at the school, a sergeant named Santos Lopez Alonso who had participated in the attack at Dos Erres. He wanted to present the child as a gift to his mother-in-law, Rufina Garcia, who had often said she would like to have a boy.
The woman apparently changed her mind, so Osorio was raised instead by Lopez Alonso and his wife, Lidia Garcia Perez, in the town of Retalhuleu in southwestern Guatemala. He was given a new name, Ramiro Fernandez Lopez Garcia, and recalls being treated less as a family member and more as an indentured servant, forced to work long hours in the family's bakery while subject to frequent and severe beatings.
In other words, Osorio was raised by, and in many ways owed his life to, an adoptive family whose breadwinner was a man who had played a role in the murder of Osorio's mother, father and seven siblings, not to mention their fellow villagers — an emotional, legal and psychological echo chamber that makes your head spin.
The Guatemalan civil war ground on until the mid-'90s, when a truce was negotiated under international supervision. With peace came questions and, eventually, answers.
In July 1994, authorities began exhumations beneath the ground where Dos Erres had once stood. Despite repeated interruptions and bureaucratic disputes, the work proceeded until they had unearthed the skeletal remains of 162 people.
Many others may have been missed. According to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 216 people died in the massacre.
Meanwhile, new light was being cast on those dark events from other directions.
Using DNA samples, a Guatemalan organization called Famdegua — dedicated to recovering the "disappeared" victims of the war — helped members of Osorio's extended family find the boy who had magically survived.
"In 1999, they found my family," says Osorio, who was by then 22.
On Feb. 20, 1999, he found himself reunited with a passel of family members, people he barely knew, relatives who had almost but not quite given him up for dead — cousins, aunts, uncles, even a grandmother and grandfather.
The encounter was sorrowful for many reasons, not least because Osorio was obliged to leave Guatemala City just three days later to begin a journey that would take him far from his native land — to a vast northern country called Canada, where he was being admitted into a witness-protection program.
In Guatemala, the wheels of justice continued to turn slowly. In April 2000, a Guatemalan court issued warrants for the arrest of 17 individuals deemed responsible for the massacre at Dos Erres.
By this time, many of those men had fled Guatemala, including Jorge Sosa, who had absconded in 1985.
After failing to gain political asylum in the United States, Sosa travelled to Canada with his family, including his wife and two children. Canadian authorities proved to be more amenable to his claim that he was being hunted by Guatemalan rebels. They granted his application for asylum.
The family settled in Lethbridge, Alta., in 1988 and Sosa — a karate expert — opened a martial-arts school. In 1992, he became a Canadian citizen.
Later, Sosa moved back to the United States, where his civil status went through a quick succession of changes — a divorce, followed by remarriage to a Guatemala-born American. Thanks to this union, he obtained a green card in 1998. He moved to Riverside, east of Los Angeles, where he again opened a karate school. By this time, he had divorced his second wife.
In 2008, Sosa obtained U.S. citizenship. In his application, however, he failed to disclose his military career in Guatemala and made no mention of his role — which he continues to deny — in the massacre at Dos Erres. These oversights would return to haunt him.
Three months later, according to a detailed report published by the investigative website ProPublica, a Homeland Security investigator opened an inquiry into Sosa related to Dos Erres.
In September 2010, a California grand jury indicted the karate instructor for citizenship fraud. By then, Sosa was in Alberta, where he had fled to avoid arrest in the United States and where he faced three different legal prospects, none of them favourable.
First, Canada could have deported Sosa to Guatemala, which was seeking his extradition on suspicion of war crimes.
Second, Canadian authorities could have invoked the legal principle of "universal jurisdiction" and tried Sosa on Canadian soil for crimes against humanity committed in Guatemala.
Or, third, Canada could have acceded to a U.S. request for Sosa's extradition, so that he could be tried in California on far less serious charges relating to citizenship fraud.
Despite vigorous protests by human rights activists, Canada chose the third option.
After being arrested by Lethbridge Regional Police in January 2011, Sosa was deported to the United States last September and is now in a California jail.
The former Guatemalan army officer was convicted on two of three counts of citizenship fraud, a comparatively benign outcome considering the charges he faces in his native land.
Still, Sosa could spend up to 15 years in a federal U.S. prison, and that is justice of a sort. He is to be sentenced on Dec. 9.
Now 55, Sosa may well face those charges. Recently stripped of his U.S. citizenship, he will have nowhere to go but Canada or Guatemala, once he's released from jail.
"If he wants to come here or to Guatemala, he will be tried," says Osorio.
In Guatemala, four men have already been convicted for their part in the massacre. On Aug. 3, 2011, they were each sentenced to more than 6,000 years in prison — whatever that means, in practice — a conviction believed to mark the first time Guatemalan soldiers have been held to account for human-rights offences in nearly four decades. Efrain Rios Montt, Guatemala's dictator in 1982 and '83, now aged 77, faces a raft of charges relating to genocide, including his alleged involvement as mastermind of the Dos Erres killings.
As for this September's trial in California, Osorio was not the only man to testify against Jorge Sosa.
Another witness for the prosecution was Santos Lopez Alonso, the man who "adopted" Osorio all those years ago in Guatemala.
Lopez Alonso was arrested in Texas in 2010 and charged with illegally re-entering the United States after having been deported. He agreed to testify against Sosa and was sentenced to time served before being transferred to California, where he was held as a material witness in Sosa's trial.
When he thinks of Lopez Alonso now, Osorio says he feels no hostility.
The same goes for his feelings for the other men who murdered his family and destroyed his village. Osorio would like to see them tried and punished, but the construction worker has a life of his own now.
Osorio changed his legal name back to the one that was given him by his mother and father. To his mind, it represented a kind of rebirth.
Four years ago, Osorio returned to the country of his birth, to visit his new-found relatives and to go back to the village where his family was butchered on that terrible day, Dec. 7, 1982.
Guided by people from the nearby town of Las Cruces, Osorio once again set eyes upon Dos Erres — or what had once been Dos Erres.
The village had vanished without a trace.
He was the second child survivor of the massacre. He was 3 years old at the time and was abducted/adopted by one of the soldiers involved in the attack.
Castaneda happened to be away working in a relative's fields at the time of the attack. Thanks to DNA tests, he was reunited with his son Oscar Alfredo Ramirez Castaneda in August 2011. Until that point, he believed his wife and all nine of their children had been killed in the massacre.
Salome's aunt lived in Dos Erres and he happened to show up at her place (to provide information about the purchase of two turkeys for Christmas) at the time of the attack. Just 12 years old, he was detained by soldiers but managed to escapeduring a momentary lapse in vigilance.


Output at Mexico's most important oil field has fallen steeply this year, raising fears that wells there that generate 60% of the country's petroleum are in the throes of a major decline.
Production at Cantarell, the world's second-largest oil complex, in the shallow gulf waters off the shore of Mexico's southern Campeche state, averaged just over 1.8 million barrels a day in May, according to the most recent government figures. That's a 7% drop from the first of the year and the lowest monthly output since July 2005, when Hurricane Emily forced the evacuation of thousands of oil workers from the region.
Though analysts have long forecast the withering of this mature field, a rapid demise would pose serious challenges for the world's No. 5 oil producer. The oil field has supplied the bulk of Mexico's oil riches for the last quarter of a century, and petroleum revenue funds more than a third of federal spending.
"Cantarell is going to fall a lot, and quickly," said independent consultant Guillermo Cruz Dominguez Vargas, a former executive with Mexico's state-owned oil monopoly, Petroleos Mexicanos, known as Pemex. "I can't imagine the strain on this society if there is nothing to replace it."
It would also be bad news for the United States, for which Mexico is the No. 2 petroleum supplier, behind Canada. And it could exacerbate tight global supplies that have kept oil at record prices.
The world's "elephantine" fields have already been bagged, forcing companies to hunt in ever-more-remote areas for smaller amounts of oil to feed burgeoning demand, according to Houston energy analyst William Herbert.
"Unfortunately, the era of low-hanging fruit ... has really run its course," said Herbert, co-head of research at Simmons & Co. International, a Houston-based energy investment bank. He put the odds of finding another field the size of Cantarell in Mexico or anywhere else at "slim and none."
Exceeded in size only by Saudi Arabia's leviathan Ghawar field, Cantarell is a prolific giant that is past its prime. Monthly production peaked in late 2004 at just over 2.1 million barrels a day and has fallen more than 15% since then. Experts agree it has nowhere to go but down.
The multibillion-dollar question is just how quickly Cantarell will lose its productive capacity, and whether Pemex will be able to coax more oil out of existing fields to take up the slack while it searches for new deposits.
Pemex did not respond to requests for an interview. But officials publicly have downplayed prospects of a swoon in the media and in official releases. In fact, the company has projected that its overall oil output will increase slightly in 2006 to an average of 3.4 million barrels a day from 3.3 million daily last year.
The firm has done extensive maintenance on Cantarell to keep the oil flowing. In a December 2005 news release, Pemex predicted that the field will produce an average of 1.9 million barrels a day in 2006, a modest 6% drop from 2005, followed by double-digit annual declines that would reduce average production to 1.4 million barrels daily in 2008.
Other studies aren't so optimistic. Seawater is threatening to swamp the wells of Cantarell as the field's pressure diminishes, a debilitating symptom of old age that makes it tougher to extract the remaining oil. Leaked internal reports of Pemex's own worst-case scenarios published in Mexican newspapers show production plummeting to about 520,000 barrels a day by the end of 2008 -- a 71% free-fall from May levels in less than three years.
Mexico City energy analyst David Shields said the swift drop over the first five months of 2006, and conversations with Pemex insiders have convinced him that prospects at Cantarell are worse than officials will admit publicly. June figures for the field won't be available until later this month. But Mexico's overall crude production fell in June, the third straight monthly decline, making it unlikely that Cantarell staged a revival.
"It's doing very badly," said Shields, general manager of Energia a Debate, an industry trade publication, and the author of two books on Pemex. "My reading of the situation is that it's dire."
Whether Cantarell's slide prompts changes in Mexico's oil sector remains to be seen. Critics have long lambasted state-owned Pemex as a hotbed of inefficiency and corruption that officials have treated more like an ATM than Latin America's largest company. But record oil prices have lessened the urgency to overhaul the company.
One would never suspect that trouble might be bubbling in Mexico's oil patch from the glut of petrodollars flooding its treasury. Federal officials last year siphoned $54 billion from Pemex to fund government spending that included a baseball stadium in Chihuahua and a gigantic flagpole in Nuevo Leon.
The trouble, analysts say, is that the government's take is so large that it has left little to reinvest in Pemex to keep the black gold flowing.
Despite record sales of $86.2 billion last year, the company lost $7.1 billion after taxes. It's the most indebted oil firm in the world, carrying a staggering $50 billion in loans on its books. Pipeline leaks and explosions are commonplace, in part because the monopoly lacks sufficient funds for basic maintenance of equipment. Proven reserves have tumbled by more than a third since 2000. Mexico buys a quarter of its gasoline from foreigners for want of refining capacity, the equivalent of Hawaiians importing pineapple.
Yet Pemex was not an overriding theme of the recent presidential contest. In fact, the three major candidates usually prefaced remarks about their energy plans with the assertion that the state-owned oil firm must never be privatized. Like Social Security in the United States, Mexico's government-controlled oil industry is the third rail of Mexican politics.
"No Mexican candidate ever earned a single vote by talking about reform in the energy sector," said analyst George Baker, a Mexico expert with Energia.com, a Houston-based consulting firm.
Mexico nationalized its industry in 1938 in response to decades of perceived exploitation by foreign oil interests. The belief that "el petroleo es nuestro" or "the oil is ours" is deeply embedded in the national psyche.
Cantarell is a particular source of pride. Named for a Yucatan Peninsula fisherman, Rudecindo Cantarell, who first noticed crude bubbling to the surface of the Campeche Sound in 1976, the field vaulted the nation into one of the world's oil powers and affirmed the ability of Mexicans to manage their own energy resources.
"We haven't had many successes in our history, but petroleum is one of them," said consultant Cruz.
But he and other experts say Mexico's go-it-alone strategy has become a liability at a time when the nation desperately needs billions in fresh capital to develop new fields. Mexico's constitution currently forbids outsiders from investing in the energy sector in exchange for a share of production, a global practice that has been embraced even by communist Cuba.
Some of the most promising potential reserves lie in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. But that's an expensive undertaking for which Pemex lacks the technical expertise, funding and, perhaps most important -- time -- to bring new production along fast enough to offset Cantarell's descent.
"Once Cantarell rolls, conventional wisdom has it that it would roll hard and that the declines would be steep," analyst Herbert said. "It looks like that may be what we're seeing."


Vincent T. Davis Dec. 22, 2018 Updated: Dec. 23, 2018 9:11 a.m.
On Saturday afternoon, Katie Cole received the keys to a new home that Good Samaritans call an example of what love can accomplish.
Cole's first steps into the one-story structure also was an invitation to the public to attend Project Katie's open house.
Four years ago, only charred remnants of Cole's home stood at the address on Poplar Street. An electrical fire had destroyed the house with regal columns that had been in her family for generations.
That was the first of her troubles.
Her insurance company canceled her home policy when she couldn't pay for a new roof. The city wanted the home demolished, but Cole didn't have the money to have the house razed.
That's when the West End Housing Initiative stepped in and created Katie's Project.
One of the first calls to action came a block away from St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church. The Rev. Joe E. Barber contacted West End Hope in Action, a coalition of community groups that works to make life better for neighborhoods.
Chuck Bayne, 67, a West End associate, said in Cole's neighborhood many residents face whether to pay for food or repair homes built decades ago.
He contacted Ralph Gibson, a longtime friend and owner of Debsteel, Inc., a steel erection company, to reach out for help in the construction community. His first stop was at Alamo 1. After the owner heard the dilemma, he agreed to help — his workers demolished the home the next week for free.
A concrete company donated the cement. Someone volunteered to take care of the plumbing. Southwest Exteriors had workers who did home repair ministry. McCoy's Lumber provided and installed the exterior Hardie plank siding.
Gibson, now retired, spent his days at the site.
He recalled a day when a rough-looking man stopped outside and gave him an intense glare that had Gibson questioning his intentions. He was relieved when the man thanked him for the good job he was doing on the house. After that, every time the man walked by, he waved and cheered on the work crew.
Residents hosted barbecue fundraisers. Volunteers cleared away debris, dug up old trees and trimmed tree branches.
Cole has been out of home for four years. She stayed with her brother, who recently died, and has been living with a grandson since then.
There have been times when spirits were low, but the outpouring from strangers lifted her back up.
He said the project affected and touched many people, including Cole's family.
Gibson recalled when her son and one of her grandsons came inside of the home and sat down. New fixtures filled the rebuilt home where his mother had raised him. Minutes later, they looked at each other and cried.
The retired business owner said most of his life he had never been interested in doing charity work.
In 2002, his daughters asked why the family didn't go to church. He said after attending services his life changed, and he saw life through a different lens.
He started paying attention to the needs of others and helping people — like Cole.


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The Neglected Voice of the Ethiopian Diaspora
The Neglected Voice of the Ethiopian Diaspora: Can the Spirits, Courage and Honesty of Birtukan, Tsegaye, Teddy and Others Revive Our Wounded Feelings and Mood of Resistance, and become Forces of Unity?
By Maru Gubena
As Ethiopians in Ethiopia are neither allowed to demonstrate nor to make their voices heard by any other means, the Ethiopian Diaspora community scattered across the world, including Tasmania, New Caledonia and Gavdos, has been making every possible effort to represent the voice of the voiceless. Tragically, depressingly, embarrassingly, however, and quite contrary to the voice and respect our parents and grandparents had, our voice, as the Ethiopian Diaspora community, has been neglected for decades now, by almost all ministries and diplomatic communities of western countries and even those in Africa.
Yes, indeed! As far as I can recall, in the nostalgic years of my childhood and youth in the 1960s and the early 1970s Ethiopia and Ethiopians enjoyed both the unlimited love and respect of the entire international community; there was no need of visas for Ethiopians to travel to certain European and Middle Eastern countries. Famine in Ethiopia was just a periodic event, a matter of national concern and a collective responsibility of its people. It is additionally true that the number of Ethiopians living in exile numbered only in tens, not in millions, as is undeniably the reality today. The terms "asylum," "refugee" and "exile" were known to only a few well educated, politically oriented intellectual Ethiopians whose state of mind was affected by ideas, ideologies and goals related to political, economic and leadership change for Ethiopia. Today, however, these words are well known even to rural Ethiopian children, grandmothers and grandfathers, since these phenomena have become indispensable as ways to escape poverty and disease, as well as internal and external wars and conflicts. Indeed, due to the structural and indiscriminately repressive nature of successive military regimes and dictators with respect to their own able and productive labour force, and the persistent character of Ethiopia's wars, internal tensions and conflicts, compounded by hunger and famine, the influence of belief in a political ideology that goes against the political and economic policy of the leadership in power has become irrelevant to determining who becomes a "refugee."
It might even not be wrong for any native Ethiopian or foreign historian to insist on arguing that since the mid 1970s the face of Ethiopia's political and economic map, including the many components that have shaped the new Ethiopian culture and molded the attitudes of Ethiopians, have changed dramatically, and in a fashion that has become difficult either to redirect or to correct. It was probably also in the time following those periods that the respect outsiders once had for Ethiopia and Ethiopians began to evaporate, to the point where Ethiopians are no longer welcome at the ports of entry of a good number of nations that have rational, solidly built economic structures and relatively reliable political stability.
What is most shocking and depressing in recent times is that Ethiopians today, even these who have already lived in foreign countries for three or four decades, have come to be looked down upon. Our country is associated with negative images - war, political repression, human rights violations and famine, and the deadly disease "HIV/AIDS," to the point that this disease is likely to become an important issue with respect to western countries' visa requirements for Ethiopians and other Africans wishing to enter for example Europe or the United States. While Ethiopians are treated with contempt, looked down upon by nations disproportionately and uninterruptedly enjoying the fruits of the end of the Cold War, and seen not only as lazy and ignorant but also as incapable of living together and dependent upon handouts from outsiders, many my of compatriots are persistently making all possible efforts to convince the world of their right to regain the respect and dignity that have been lost. They are doing this based not upon their own achievements, or their respect and their concern for each other, but simply on the basis of Ethiopia's history, which was carefully and wisely shaped by our parents, and of the nationalistic and patriotic attitudes that helped them not only to form and maintain a united and independent Ethiopia, but also to be feared and respected by the neighbouring French and British enemy European colonial powers of the time.
Even worse, due to our own continuing actions and dishonest behaviours, we, the members of the Ethiopian Diaspora, have in recent time been repeatedly and continuously accused and charged as "liars and economic refugees." Yes, almost all western immigration offices and ministries have hard evidence that a good number, if not the majority, of Ethiopian Diaspora members have stated in their applications for asylum that they have been tortured and would be either immediately killed or imprisoned by the authorities in their country of origin if they were forced to return - yet after receiving their living permits from western immigration authorities, they return to Ethiopia of their own accord, using temporary travel documents. Because such temporary travel documents from western cities require a visa from the visa section of an Ethiopian embassy in a western country, many members of the Ethiopia Diaspora have been registered by embassies representing the Meles Zenawi regime. In addition to IDs or passports from western nations, a number of our community members also hold Ethiopian IDs, driving licences and passports, making it easy for the unelected regime of Meles Zenawi to present, vigorously argue and win its case in any western diplomatic community debate or demand. Yes, the Meles regime has hard evidence, an endlessly long list of names; not just those with Ethiopian IDs and passports are included, but also an incalculable number of names of our community members who own private houses, small or large businesses, and urban or rural lands. Consequently (and perhaps rightly in most cases), in recent times the Meles regime has denied the existence of political asylum seekers/refugees in western countries – exactly in the same way that it insists on denying the existence of political prisoners in Ethiopia. When a diplomat from a western country confidently shows up in Meles Zenawi's office with an intention to talk about the large number of Ethiopians who have been provided refugee status in his or her country, the office of Meles Zenawi is well prepared, and presents its own long lists with many names that are exactly the same. But one list is of "Ethiopians residing in the western world as political refugees," while the other includes "people in search of a better life." And in the comparison, by presenting the names of all Ethiopians with Ethiopian IDs, Ethiopian driving licences, Ethiopian passports and business ownership, the cadres of Meles Zenawi come out as the clear winner.
The direct and indirect results of our actions, our dishonest and greedy behaviours and our divisions, have made us a community that deserves not to be listened but one to be neglected and ignored by almost all western ministries, their diplomatic communities and people in general. Simply because we are fond of "going it alone," and are accused of being "good liars" and economic refugees." Such actions and behaviours have undoubtedly been responsible for the fruitless outcomes of our scattered efforts to gain the release of our innocent compatriots who have been unlawfully imprisoned, who languish in known and unknown cruel and inhuman Woyane prison systems.
Now we must decide if we will continue this pattern. The incarceration of Ms. Birtukan Mideksa, an innocent young woman, a mother, a humanist, a judge, a lawyer and a political and human rights activist; the kidnapping and secret solitary confinement of the well-known poet and devoted Ethiopian educator, Tsegaye Gebre Medhin, or "Debteraw; " the unlawful and lengthy imprisonment of Abera Yemane Yemane-Ab and the affectionate musician, Thewodros Kassahun, known by his loving compatriots as Teddy; and thousands of other Woyane victims who are symbols of resistance, striving for democracy and basic freedom in our country, are now at issue. These victims did nothing wrong, and many people, myself included, feel that the persistent refusal of the TPLF leadership to release them unconditionally clearly shows not only the undemocratic nature of Mr. Meles Zenawi and his followers, but also their non-Ethiopianess and the animosity they hold against Ethiopia and its people. At the same time, the willingness of Ethiopians to remain divided, keeping their heads buried in the sand, while women and children are shot to death on the streets of Ethiopian cities and towns and opposition political leaders and artists are endlessly harassed, arrested and convicted, shows clearly that Ethiopians are most concerned with their personal and family well being, and that the winds carrying the torches of collective well being, freedom and democracy are far remote from the skies and high mountains of Ethiopia. Yes, it is we, Ethiopians of all sexes, both at home and in the Diaspora, who have allowed Meles Zenawi and his associates to urinate and defecate on our faces, backs, and even the entire bodies of all Ethiopians. It is certainly true that it is we Ethiopians who opened the door wide for Meles Zenawi and those around him to come in and engage in games of politics with Ethiopians, without first framing the conditions and without achieving the necessary arrangements. As a result, Meles can simply and easily humiliate, criminalize, charge, arrest and kill those he realizes are "true Ethiopians," and therefore potential enemies to his ruthless rule. It is indeed a shame! Shame on all of us!
Since the sources of our infighting with each other have become so engrained and entangled, and given the extent of humiliation inflicted upon Ethiopians, I wonder when and how we will be able to recover and become willing to advance our national interest, putting the well-being of all Ethiopians before family, group or party interests and politics. I wonder how that will come about, and when! It is my strong conviction that if we, collectively, are to play a meaningful role in helping to clear away the huge clouds surrounding our country and people, to create mechanisms conducive to moving our country from the status of a beggar society to one of self-reliance, this role will be conditioned by, and perhaps depend largely upon, our willingness to fight against the bad and ugly sides of our own culture – but also upon our readiness to engage in the cultivation and development of democratic institutions, confidence building, self-education and self-democratization efforts.
The big question for us is now: can the Spirits, Courage and Honesty of Birtukan, Tsegaye, Teddy and others, the many victims of the TPLF regime alone, revive our wounded feelings and mood of resistance and become forces of unity? Doesn't our current inactivity show our weakness and dependence on the actions and footsteps of Meles Zenawi's regime?
Maru Gubena
Readers who wish to contact the author can reach me at info@pada.nl