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‘Beyond outrageous’: L.A. company accused of faking hundreds of COVID test results – Los Angeles Times (Me: A fine/settlement is not enough!)

A company accused of handing out fake results for hundreds of coronavirus tests will pay more than $20 million under a settlement deal announced by Los Angeles City Atty. Mike Feuer.

Feuer and Dist. Atty. George Gascón accused Sameday Technologies and its chief executive, Felix Huettenbach, of sending fake results to hundreds of people, telling them they had tested negative for the coronavirus when laboratories had not actually run their tests. Some tests were never processed at all, according to the complaint filed in court Wednesday.

More than 500 test results are “confirmed or suspected to be faked, falsified, or forged,” the attorneys wrote. In their complaints, they alleged Sameday would forge a negative result — at the direction of its CEO — when someone who had not gotten their result in time complained or threatened to report the company.

Source: ‘Beyond outrageous’: L.A. company accused of faking hundreds of COVID test results – Los Angeles Times

Let’s save the wildlife – Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum)

Myrela

Gila monster je vrsta otrovnog guštera koji potiče iz jugozapadnih Sjedinjenih država i sjeverozapadne meksičke države Sonora. Teški gušter koji se obično sporo kreće jedini je otrovni gušter porijeklom iz Sjedinjenih država. Ovaj gušter je trome prirode, tako da nije opasan, i vrlo rijetko predstavlja stvarnu prijetnju za ljude. Ipak, njegova pretjerano zastrašujuća reputacija, dovela je do toga da ponekad bude ubijen, uprkos tome što je zaštićen državnim zakonom.

Izvor: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gila_monster) – Fotografija: (https://www.gettyimages.com)

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Monastery of the Presentation of the Most Holy Mother of God, Palja, Serbia – Manastir Vavedenja Presvete Bogorodice, Palja, Srbija

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U ataru sela Palja kod Vladičinog Hana, istočno od Vlasinskog jezera, nalazi se manastir posvećen Vavedenju Bogoridičinom. Manastirska crkva podinuta je, vjerovatno, početkom 17. vijeka po ugledu na crkve moravske skupine. Sazidana je na starijem crkvištu i ima izgled trikonhalne građevine sa polukružnim pjevničkim apsidama. Oltarska apsida je viša od bočnih konhi. Zasvedena je poluobličastim svodom i pokrivena kamenim pločama. Postoje dva sloja živopisa; iz vremena kada je crkva podignuta i živopis iz vremena obnove manastira (1804). Raspored tema je uobičajen za slikarstvo tog vremena. Znatno kasnije, prizidana je na zapadnoj strani priprata sa ulazom na sjevernoj strani. Manastir je, još jednom, obnovljen 1893. godine. Tada je zapadni dio crkve znatno izmijenjen.

Izvor: (“Manastiri Srbije”, Slobodan Mileusnić) – Fotografija: (https://srbijavesti.rs/manastir-vavedenja-presvete-bogorodice-selo-palja)

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Thoughtless Thursdays, La Casa de Papel, & La Resurrección: Empathy??

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

       My question this week is: does gaining half a speck of empathy render a sociopath newly born??

    My reaction this week tries not to spoil the episode:  El que la sigue la consigue, and gives random reactions in the original Spanish, and most of the time in English, for the majority of my current readers:

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    El buton: su dignidad BerlinCastigDenver9   y reputación

 

Y Tokyo la mujer tóxica…
 
 
Y el profe entrando en  coche de policía para darle órdenes!  Increíble!   Y logra dar tanto miedo a un Ruso!!
 
 
Uh oh, y Berlin queriendo ajustar cuentas con Denver…
 
Y ya sabemos que no tiene nada que perder.
 
Pero ya sabe que Denver ha hecho el Domingo de Resurrección!!  Para Denver y Mónica!!
 
Viaje espiritual, hombre nuevo, Berlin ??  Nunca. 
 
Plan Valencia, Ahora…
Con Nairobi como directora…

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Un cuento de iniciación: « La Magia de la Amazonia Las aventuras de Namowë, un niño Yanomami » – ¡Para edades de 8 a 12 a 100 años! – escrito e …

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Un cuento de iniciación: « La Magia de la Amazonia Las aventuras de Namowë, un niño Yanomami » – ¡Para edades de 8 a 12 a 100 años! – escrito e …