Cuban prosecutor who sent July 11 peaceful protesters to prison wants to immigrate to the U.S.
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Rosabel Roca Sampedro, a prosecutor from Camagüey who sought prison sentences for young demonstrators from the July 11 protests and other dissidents, has requested an appointment through the CBPOne application to immigrate to the United States, according to Martí Noticias, which verified this information with immigration sources who asked to remain anonymous.
According to multiple reports on social media, Roca Sampedro left Cuba with her young daughter and currently resides in Mexico. She deleted a profile from her social media where she had shown her support for the Cuban regime and is now waiting for the U.S. to grant her an appointment through the CBPOne mobile application to present herself at the border and request political asylum.
“The case is number 26 of 2022, from the Preliminary Investigation File 31 of 2021, for Assault and Contempt, handled by prosecutor Rosabel Roca Sampedro. We have it in our records. Due to her work, four innocent people were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 4 years and 4 months to 3 years and 6 months,” said Javier Larrondo, director of the NGO Prisoners Defenders, which specializes in documenting human rights violations in Cuba.
After July 11, 2021, when the largest peaceful protests in Cuban history occurred, the island’s regime sentenced more than 1,000 people to prison. Since then, this has been a major obstacle in relations with the United States and a cause for condemnation by international organizations.
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A communist agent trying to enter the U.S. belongs in a prison not the U.S.
Test used to assess concussion in athletes may be useless, research shows
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2024/06/11/concussion-test-athletes-useless/3941718119438/
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A test used to gauge whether a college athlete has suffered a concussion is right only half the time and may be useless, new research finds.
The test used by the NCAA, which oversees college sports, measures an athlete’s cognitive skills, and is one of three tests (symptoms and balance tests being the other two) that doctors use to identify concussion.
“If you don’t do well on the cognitive exam, it suggests you have a concussion. But many people who are concussed do fine on the exam,” said study lead author Dr. Kimberly Harmon. She is a professor of family medicine and section head of sports medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Harmon said she was prompted to conduct the study by firsthand experience working on the sidelines as team physician for the UW Huskies.
“Some people were concussed and they did well on the recall tests. Some people weren’t concussed and they didn’t do well. So I thought we should study it,” she explained in a UW news release.
The test itself is one part of what’s known as the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT). In the cognitive skills section of SCAT, the patient is asked “orientation” questions (What day is it? What month is it?), then a memory test (recite back a list of words), then a concentration challenge (repeat a series of numbers in reverse order).
.....The new study involved 92 NCAA Division I athletes who sustained a concussion between mid-July of 2020 and the end of 2022. All had undergone a concussion evaluation within 48 hours of injury.
Their SCAT results were compared to those of 92 (non-injured) teammates.
Harmon’s team found no difference in cognitive test scores between the injured and non-injured athletes. In fact, 45% of players who were found to have a concussion actually performed better on their cognitive tests than in a “baseline” test before the concussion, researchers noted.
“If you get hit in the head and go to the sideline and say, ‘I have a headache. I’m dizzy. I don’t feel right,’ I can say with pretty good assurance that you have a concussion,” Harmon said.
“I don’t need to do any [cognitive] testing,” she reasoned. “The problem is that some athletes don’t want to come out. They don’t report their symptoms or may not recognize their symptoms. So then you need an objective, accurate test to tell you whether you can safely put the athlete back on the field. We don’t have that right now.”
......”We are still short of the holy grail, which is an objective test for concussion,” she said. “For now, this study shows how important it is for athletes to disclose their symptoms.”
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