Saturday, August 3, 2013

The Sun News Tragedy hits Enugu family

?3 children of same mother die after cassava meal in one day

?Father passed on same way 2 yrs ago

From Kassidy Uchendu, Nsukka.

Three children of the same mother, have reportedly died after taking cassava meal suspected to be poisoned. The tragedy, which occurred at the Amokwe Enu-Obukpa on the outskirts of Nsukka Urban in Enugu State, has thrown the entire village and the vicinity into mourning and confusion.

The trio died one after the other same day when they ate fermented cassava meal last Sunday.

Two of them died at the University of Nigeria Medical Centre while the youngest also passed on almost immediately. The siblings, according to neighbours, who do not want to be named, said that before their demise, they were stooling profusely as they battled against death.

The mother was said to be away from home when the tragedy occurred. The late Mr. Lawrence Ugwuanyi, who married three wives and a former staff of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), died less than two years ago, with his eldest son dying few months later.

Daily Sun gathered that there was no love lost among the three widows of the late Ugwuanyi, prompting speculations that the three children might have died of food poisoning. The elder brothers of the deceased siblings were also suspected to have died through a similar circumstance.

When Daily Sun visited the home of the bereaved parents, the younger brother to the deceased, Mr. Hyginus Ugwuanyi, a postgraduate student of UNN, was still in shock.

?I cannot tell you anything now until the children are buried. I am the younger brother of Mr. Lawrence Ugwuanyi, father of the three dead children. Three of them died under my care. My brother, Lawrence, also died two months after and now three of his children have died in one day. The shock is too much for me to bear, so I cannot tell you details.

I promise if you come back on Sunday, I will give you the details,? Ugwuanyi pleaded. Mrs. Ugwuanyi, mother of the three children, Chinechere Ugwuanyi, Ikenna Ugwuanyi (students) and Nnenna Ugwuanyi, was unable to utter a word when Daily Sun called at her residence, she sat on a bed surrounded by some sympathisers. She was overwhelmed by anguish. Since the death of the three siblings, tongues have been wagging.

A villager, who doesn?t want to be named, told our reporter that the demise of the children who are from one mother has thrown the villagers into confusion. She said that they have started to suspect that all is not well with the late Ugwuanyi family.

We will get at the root of this strange occurrence in this village and anybody found to have a hand in what had been happening in the Ugwuanyi family since his death will be seriously dealt with. Even the death of Lawrence is also suspicious,? he said.

Source: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/tragedy-hits-enugu-family/

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Friday, August 2, 2013

Alex Rodriguez Plays Simulated Game, Headed For Trenton Thunder As Suspension Looms

TAMPA, Fla. -- Alex Rodriguez will start a second minor league injury rehabilitation assignment on Friday at Double-A Trenton, hoping to return to the New York Yankees before any suspension by Major League Baseball.

Rodriguez played a simulated game Thursday at the team's spring training home, and New York said he will play for Trenton against Reading for two games through Saturday.

With the Yankees at San Diego on Sunday, there is little chance the team will tell him fly across the country after a night game for a day game in California.

If he's not suspended by then, the three-time MVP could rejoin New York for its series opener Monday at the Chicago White Sox. However, it appears MLB will suspend Rodriguez by then for ties to Biogenesis of America, a closed Florida anti-aging clinic accused of distributing banned performance-enhancing drugs.

Four years ago Rodriguez admitted using PEDs while with Texas from 2001-03, but he repeatedly has denied using them since.

Because of wet grounds, the Yankees moved Rodriguez's simulated game from their minor league complex across the Dale Mabry highway to Steinbrenner Field.

The ballpark was closed to media, who watched from a walkway behind the right-field bullpen. Rodriguez saw 31 pitches over six at-bats, played third and ran bases during the simulated game. About two dozen media members and five television trucks were on hand ? but no fans.

Coming back from January hip surgery, Rodriguez was .200 (8 for 40) with two homers and eight RBIs in 13 minor league games from July 2-20 for Class A Tampa and Charleston (S.C.), Trenton and Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. The assignment was cut a day short when he complained of quadriceps tightness, and the Yankees said an MRI in New York on July 21 showed a grade 1 strain.

Rodriguez pushed to be activated later that week, retaining a doctor without giving the Yankees the required notification, and the physician claimed he couldn't detect an injury. During a conference call with Yankees officials on July 25 ? Rodriguez insisted one of his lawyers be on the call ? the sides agreed to a schedule for his return.

He appeared ready to talk as he was leaving the minor league complex, waving a group of writers to his car in the parking lot and rolling down the window. However, when A-Rod saw a second group with TV cameras approaching, he said "I'll talk to you guys, but no cameras."

Rodriguez closed the window and kept the car stationary for a moment, then left without saying another word to reporters.

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Stimulating brain cells can make false memories

[unable to retrieve full-text content]By activating a subset of brain cells in mice, researchers changed the way the animals remembered a particular setting. To determine if they could alter the way a mouse remembered a setting by activating neurons associated with it, researchers attempted to change whether or not a mouse was afraid of a particular cage. Their experiements implicated neurons in the brain's dentate gyrus as being responsible for inducing the animal's false memory of their cage.

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Tropical Weight Loss Smoothie! | Lucille Roberts Health & Fitness Blog

pineapple smoothie1August is here so why not spice up the last month of Summer with this Tropical Weight Loss smoothie? This coconut infused drink will transport you to a relaxing island destination within sips.

Ingredients:
  • 1?papaya, cut into chunks
  • 1 cup?fat-free plain yogurt
  • 1/2 cup?fresh pineapple chunks
  • 1 scoop of vanilla Live Rite
  • 1/2 cup?crushed ice
  • 1 teaspoon?coconut extract
  • 1 teaspoon?ground flax-seed
Directions:
  1. Combine the papaya, yogurt, pineapple, ice, coconut extract, flax-seed, and Live Rite in your blender. Process for about 30 seconds, or until smooth and frosty.

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

TIF trustee holds $5 million for debt payments

JOPLIN, Mo. ? Joplin will hold onto $5 million of the $18 million realized from the first round of bonds sold on the city?s newly created tax increment financing district to meet the bond?s debt payments.

Leslie Haase, the city?s finance director, said the money is being held by the city?s TIF trustee, UMB Bank. She said it is to be used to make payments on the TIF bonds until enough tax revenue starts coming in from the TIF district to meet the bond payments.

She gave a financial report to the Joplin Redevelopment Corp. on Tuesday night and sought approval to pay out $13 million of the money generated by the bond sales for TIF and tornado redevelopment project costs. The JRC is involved in buying land for those projects.

Haase said Wednesday that it will be several months before much money comes in from the Joplin Redevelopment TIF District that was put in place in December. Half of any increases in tax revenue inside the designated TIF area will help pay for redevelopment projects generated by the city?s designated master developer, Wallace Bajjali Development Partners. The TIF district encompasses the tornado zone and stretches across portions of central and downtown Joplin, particularly along Main Street.

Haase said the city does not expect to receive any significant amount of money from the TIF district until early 2014, after property taxes are paid at the end of the year. That is why money needed to be held from the bond sales to make payments, she said.

Costs for the bond sales, as of July 30, were $183,794, according to a statement provided to the JRC. Those were fees paid for financial advisory and legal counsel, along with cost reimbursements to several firms involved in the bond issue.

Land purchases by the JRC that are within the TIF zone and eligible to be paid by TIF district revenue amount to $5,364,322. Part of those land purchases were made for the project to build a new Joplin Public Library and movie theater at 20th Street and Connecticut Avenue, and a retail/loft project east of the library site along 20th Street to Carolyn Place. The rest of the purchases are in the area of 26th Street and McClelland Boulevard for a senior transitional living complex that is to be co-developed by Wallace Bajjali and O?Reilly Development of Springfield.

One purchase, that of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. property at 1301 S. Virginia Avenue, was made for $541,232, but it is outside the TIF zone and has to be paid for by funds other than those generated via the TIF district.

According to a balance sheet of the JRC, the fees charged by Wallace Bajjali for those land purchases totaled $287,852 as of July 29. All but $92,000 has already been paid.

?The only other thing we owe them (other than land purchase fees) is up to $1 million in pursuit costs? for putting the redevelopment projects together, Haase said. That money will be paid out as the projects are developed, as agreed to in a contract the City Council approved when it hired the master development firm. That contract calls for Wallace Bajjali to share the development costs with the city. Haase said the first installment of those pursuit costs will likely have to be paid soon, but she did not know Wednesday how much that would be.

Other costs related to the land purchases so far are $132 for electric charges, $70,349 for land closing costs and $15,260 for liability insurance.

Closed session

THE JRC BOARD met in closed session Tuesday, after an open session, to consider more land purchases.

Source: http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x1664874957/TIF-trustee-holds-5-million-for-debt-payments

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'Affront to human rights': Amnesty International weighs on California prisons hunger strike

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An undated handout image released by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows the High Desert State Prison in Susanville, Calif.

By Steve Gorman, Reuters

Amnesty International weighed in on a 22-day-old hunger strike in California prisons on Tuesday, calling solitary confinement conditions faced by protesting inmates an "affront to human rights" and urging an impartial probe into the death of a prisoner.?

Billy Sell, 32, serving a life term for attempted murder, was found hanged in his cell July 22 in the "security housing unit" - for prisoners held in solitary confinement - at the Corcoran State Prison in central California.?

The local coroner preliminarily ruled his death a suicide by strangulation, prison officials said. They added there was no evidence that Sell's participation in the hunger strike, which the corrections department initially denied, had been a factor.?

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Mitchell Giovannini and Diya Cruz protest against indefinite solitary confinement in California prisons, outside the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation office in Sacramento, California July 30, 2013.

According to inmate advocates, however, fellow prisoners reported Sell had been requesting medical attention for several days before his death, though a spokeswoman for a federal receiver overseeing state prison healthcare denied Sell was refused medical treatment.?

In a statement issued late on Monday, corrections officials acknowledged that Sell had been on a hunger strike from at least July 11 - by which time he already had missed nine straight meals - until July 21, the day before his death.?


They also said Sell was awaiting trial on murder charges and facing the death penalty if convicted in the 2007 strangulation and stabbing death of a cell mate. A source close to the corrections probe said he hung himself with a bed sheet.?

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Several entities at the state, federal and local level are reviewing the circumstances surrounding Sell's death, which inmate advocates say was preventable and points to inhumane conditions that protesting inmates claim to suffer.?

The global human rights group Amnesty International joined inmate supporters from the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition in calling for an independent inquiry into the death, one that is thoroughly transparent and without government ties.?

"Conditions for prisoners in solitary confinement in California are an affront to human rights and must end," Thenjiwe McHarris of Amnesty said in a statement. "No human being should be held under the deplorable conditions we have witnessed in California prisons for prolonged periods, even decades."

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Death was 'absolutely preventable'
Isaac Ontiveros, a spokesman for the inmate support coalition, said Sell had been in solitary for five years, adding that the United Nations "counts any day after 15 days (of isolation) as cruel and unusual punishment."?

"His death was absolutely preventable," he said.?

Corrections department spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman countered that inmate advocates "are shamelessly exploiting a man's death to mislead the public about a hunger strike orchestrated by violent gang members."?

More than 30,000 inmates from some two dozen California prisons began refusing food on July 8 to protest what they regard as cruel and unfair use of solitary confinement as punishment within the system. By Tuesday, the number of inmates participating in the strike had dwindled to 525 in eight prisons, corrections officials say.?

Strikers' principal demand has been to end a policy of keeping thousands of inmates in near or total isolation for years on end solely on the basis of alleged gang affiliations. They say the only way out of solitary confinement for many inmates is to become a gang informant, a choice that would be tantamount to signing their own death warrant.?

On Tuesday in Sacramento, the state capital, about 50 mothers, wives and other relatives of inmates presented Governor Jerry Brown's office with a petition bearing 41,000 signatures calling for reform of solitary confinement practices.?

"We're hoping the governor realizes the support that's being gained to end these types of conditions," Dolores Canales said before leading a march to Brown's office. She said her 37-year-old son has been in solitary confinement in Pelican Bay State Prison for 13 years because of his alleged gang ties.?

Corrections officials say nearly 3,600 inmates, or 3 percent of the state's prison population, are held in security housing units, most of them for ties to gangs, others for committing crimes while in prison.?

The protest comes at a challenging time for the state prison system, which houses roughly 132,800 inmates and has been ordered by a federal court to reduce its population by 10,000 prisoners this year to ease crowding.?

The state has begun housing many low-level offenders in county jails. Medical care in the prisons has been placed under the supervision of a court-appointed federal receiver, and mental healthcare is being watched by a special master

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Severe NFL injuries rose every season from 2009-12

Sure didn't take long for some significant injuries at NFL training camps ? Philadelphia Eagles receiver Jeremy Maclin, Baltimore Ravens tight end Dennis Pitta, Denver Broncos center Dan Koppen, to name only three.

Immediately, some theories developed: Too much offseason work. Not enough. New labor-contract rules limiting padded practices to one per day, while generally seen as helpful, are hardly a cure-all.

Washington Redskins linebacker London Fletcher thinks some guys get hurt in camp because players are trying so hard to impress coaches and earn a roster spot or a starting job.

"You know now coaches are really evaluating you," said Fletcher, whose teammate, second-year linebacker Keenan Robinson, tore his left pectoral muscle on Day 1 of training camp. "You've got guys with a competitive spirit and they're looking at it, like, 'My job's on the line. I need to make a play' and not realizing there's going to be times to show that coaches that you can hit, you can make plays in preseason games, but you don't want to have a guy go down because of something that happened in practice."

Whatever the cause, severe injuries are increasing in the NFL lately. The number of injuries that forced a player to miss at least eight days jumped every year from 2009 to 2012, according to an analysis of NFL injury data released Wednesday. The study by Edgeworth Economics, based on information collected by the league, also shows that players with concussions missed an average of 16 days last season, up from only four days in 2005, while the length of time out for other types of injuries has been steadier.

"Severe injuries are increasing in frequency," Jesse David, the economist overseeing the study, said in a telephone interview from Pasadena, Calif. "I know that's a very important issue for both the players' association and the league ? trying to tweak the rules and the equipment to deal with that. But despite everything they've been doing, it's still going on."

David said his company has done consulting for the NFL Players Association in the past and received the data for this study from the union, but wasn't paid by it.

The study says there were 1,095 instances of injuries sidelining a player for eight or more days in 2009 ? including practices and games in the preseason, regular season and postseason ? and that climbed to 1,272 in 2010, 1,380 in 2011, and 1,496 in 2012. That's an increase of 37 percent.

"The way I look at it, really, is that injuries are part of the game," said cornerback Kyle Wilson of the New York Jets, who lost another cornerback, Aaron Berry, for the season when he tore a knee ligament on the first day of practice last week.

"Injuries happen sometimes. They're unfortunate, but it really is just part of the game."

Concussions have become a far-more-noticed part of football in recent years, with more discussion of the links between head injuries and brain disease, hundreds of lawsuits brought by thousands of former players, and rules changes made by the NFL to try to better protect players.

During the nine years examined in David's study, the average number of days missed because of head injuries by players in the league went from 4.8 in 2004, four in 2005, and 4.1 in 2006, to 10.9 in 2010, 12 in 2011, and 16 last season.

"We have experts at practice every day to let you know, as a coach, if someone does have a concussion, so that makes it pretty easy. They leave it out of our hands; they put in the experts' hands," Redskins coach Mike Shanahan said. "But, yeah, I think there's more awareness in a lot of different areas when it comes to injuries over the last few years, and rightfully so."

David said "you now have more severe injuries overall" because of the hike in lengthy absences for reported concussions.

"Are the brain injuries actually more severe now than they were five years ago? Or is that players simply being held out longer for the same injury? That we can't tell from the data," David said. "My guess is it's both, but how much of each factor, I don't know."

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, who said the league will look at the study's findings, attributed the longer absences for players with concussions to more caution in the treatment of those types of injuries.

"We do know that the game is safer now, but we still have work to do. We continue to work hard on many fronts to make the game better and safer for our sport at all levels," McCarthy wrote in an email. "Our ongoing efforts include making rule changes designed to take dangerous techniques out of the game and also improving medical care to properly manage and treat concussions and raise awareness of their seriousness."

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AP Sports Writers Joseph White, Dennis Waszak Jr., Joe Kay, R.B. Fallstrom and Rob Maaddi contributed to this report.

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