The Daily Populous

Tuesday September 25th, 2018 night edition

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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (WPEC) — A teacher in Port St. Lucie, Florida claims she was fired for refusing to give students partial credit for work that is never handed in.

I was packing my stuff, and I was not going to see the kids,” Diane Tirado said.

Mrs. Tirado didn’t get to say goodbye to her student physically, so she wrote her message on a whiteboard instead.

I have been fired for refusing to give you a 50% for not handing anything in.

The 52-year-old began working at West Gate K-8 School this year as an eighth-grade social studies teacher.

She says she gave her students two weeks to complete an explorer’s notebook project but says some of them didn’t turn it in. »

Man paralysed from waist down makes history by walking again using mind-controlled implant to power his legs

Authored by independent.co.uk

Doctors in the US state of Minnesota implanted a remote-controlled electrode in the patient’s back to stimulate surviving nerves in his spinal cord.

A battery was also implanted in the abdomen and was connected to the electrode via a wire hidden beneath the skin.

Demand for nurses was 19 per cent higher between July and September 2017 than the same period two years ago. »

Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9” Aims Not at Trump But at Those Who Created the Conditions That Led to His Rise

Authored by theintercept.com
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Personalizing and isolating Trump as the principal, even singular, source of political evil is obfuscating and thus deceitful.

Resistance grifters exploit fears of Trump to build massive social media followings that are easily converted into profit from well-meaning, manipulated dupes.

One rickety, unhinged, rant-filled, speculation-driven Trump book after the next dominates the best-seller lists, enriching charlatans and publishing companies alike: the more conspiratorial, the better . »