The Daily Populous

Wednesday April 25th, 2018 morning edition

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“The realization that this could happen to potentially anyone is frightening,” said Jia Cobb, one of Kovari’s attorneys.

“No one should be treated like this, no matter what they are accused of, even if they are convicted of a crime.

Prisoner Transportation Services, the nation's largest for-profit extradition company, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The lawsuit alleges trips like Kovari's can be life-threatening for people with medical conditions because basic medical needs are not met.

States and municipalities have increasingly outsourced prisoner transport to private companies that say they can provide the service for less money.

The Justice Department was already investigating Prisoner Transportation Services for other abuse allegations before Kovari's arrest, according to the Marshall Project.

Nevertheless, Kovari's attorney said, the company still subjected him to “overcrowded, unsanitary and unsafe conditions of confinement. »

Black Hawk Up: The Forgotten American Success Story in Somalia

Authored by theatlantic.com

Images of a captured U.S. pilot and American bodies being dragged through the streets were all over the networks.

In October 1993, 66 percent of Americans thought the operation to "provide humanitarian relief" in Somalia was a failure.

The 2001 movie Black Hawk Down focused in harrowing detail on a single event--the eighteen-hour shoot-out in Mogadishu. »

Toronto police officer hailed as hero for arresting suspect without firing shot

Authored by theguardian.com

A Canadian police officer is being hailed for the restraint and professionalism he showed in arresting the suspect in the Toronto van attack without firing a single shot.

Soon after, the alleged driver of the van was arrested by a lone police officer in a confrontation lasting less than a minute and caught on video by bystanders.

Video of the dramatic confrontation between the suspect and the police officer was hailed on social media, where praise poured in for Lam. »

Metabolic and Fatigue Profiles Are Comparable Between Prepubertal Children and Well-Trained Adult Endurance Athletes

Authored by frontiersin.org

Furthermore, the post-exercise recovery kinetics of VO 2 , HR, and [La] in children and endurance athletes were faster than those of untrained men.

To conclude, prepubertal children were observed to be metabolically comparable to well-trained adult endurance athletes, and were thus less fatigable during high-intensity exercise than untrained adults.

Furthermore, it is presumed that untrained adults rely less on oxidative metabolism and therefore fatigue faster during high-intensity exercise than prepubertal children and well-trained adult endurance athletes. »

Facebook confirmed it has a confidential agreement with Aleksandr Kogan, the man at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica scandal

Authored by businessinsider.com
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Aleksandr Kogan, who created a Facebook app that harvested data and gave it to Cambridge Analytica.

Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with Facebook promising not to misuse people's data.

Facebook confirmed the existence of a confidential agreement with Kogan to Business Insider. »