West Side man charged in baseball bat assault

STAMFORD -- A three-year-old dispute over a $150 debt erupted on the West Side late Wednesday night as an undocumented Guatemalan immigrant smashed a baseball bat into a man's head, nearly killing him.

Rodolfo Calate-Morente, of 48 Aberdeen St., was charged with first-degree assault and may face more serious charges if the victim dies. The victim, identified by a witness as Oscar Hernandez, remains in critical condition at Stamford Hospital after suffering a blood clot to the brain.

Stamford Police Lt. Diedrich Hohn said the man is in "very, very serious condition" and at one point he lost all vital signs and had to be stabilized by hospital staff.

Hernandez had been harassing Calate-Morente and his wife Mirza Cortez "for an extended period of time" at their West Side home, according to police. Hohn said Hernandez was struck once in the head at Calate-Morente's home.

Victor Biancardi, Jr., an attorney representing Calate-Morente said Cortez did have a protective order to keep Hernandez away, but it had expired. During an arraignment hearing in state Superior Court in Stamford Thursday, Biancardi told Judge Anthony Truglia that the couple did not want to go to police because they were undocumented immigrants.

Biancardi said just before the man was struck with the bat shortly before 10:30 p.m., he had come to Calate-Morente and Cortez' home and was pounding and kicking the door.

"My client was defending his wife and his family against this crazed individual," Biancardi said. "It was very hot. This man kept bothering him and he took matters into his own hands."

Through a friend who speaks English, Cortez said Hernandez used to follow her around. Cortez did acknowledge that she owed Hernandez $150.

Truglia ordered Calate-Morente held on $500,000 bond. Calate-Morente has been in the U.S. for 13 years and has never been arrested, according to court records.

Calate-Morente had his case transferred to the Part A docket where the most serious cases in the area are decided. He is scheduled to return to court on Aug. 1.

Assistant State's Attorney, Michelle Manning said that the victim has been put on a ventilator and the state's attorneys office intend to ratchet up the charges depending upon the man's status.

"At the end, my client could not take the abuse and took matters into his own hands," Biancardi said outside court.

Source: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/West-Side-man-charged-in-baseball-bat-assault-4672439.php

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Deadly school lunch: India's free meals program under harsh scrutiny

India's free lunch school program is the largest in the world, and until now, much lauded.

By Shivam Vij,?Correspondent / July 18, 2013

An Indian child eats her free school lunch at a government run school in Patna, India, Wednesday, July 17.

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A day after 23 children in eastern India died from food poisoning, students across the state are reportedly throwing their free meals in the trash, as their parents and other Indians take to the street to protest corruption and lack of oversight of the free meal school program.?

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India's much-hailed Mid-Day Meal Scheme, impacting some 120 million children, is credited with having improved the school enrollment and child nutrition levels across the country since its mandatory implementation in 2001. But activists and researchers say the tragedy in a provincial city in Bihar state, some 550 miles from New Delhi, reflects systemic problems with the world?s largest school food program that, if not addressed, could ruin the program that millions depend on.?

"The government has no monitoring system about the quality of food," says Saurabh Sharma of JOSH, a nonprofit in New Delhi that has been lobbying to improve the quality of mid-day meals since it was formed in 2006.

Despite India?s impressive economic growth, it is still home to approximately one third of all malnourished children in the world, according to the United Nations Children?s Fund. While that number is still alarmingly high, the Mid-Day Meal Scheme has made inroads, and millions of poor families depend on it to provide a hot meal for their children. India?s child malnutrition rate fell more than 10 points to 42 percent in nearly a decade, according to a 2012 report.

Today the government announced it would begin a formal inquiry into what led to the deaths of so many children under the age of 12 and sickened dozens of others, including a cook who tasted the meal.

Early reports say traces of insecticide were found in the food, which experts say may have been in the cooking oil or on cooking supplies. Indeed, government officials found insecticide containers alongside the food allotted to the school's headmistress. A key part of the investigation, she is reported to have left the village with her family.

Some say even if the headmistress is found, it?s the distribution system rife with corruption that is to blame. By estimates in 2012, some 40 percent of subsidized food never reaches the intended recipients, according to the New York Times.

?The school principal will blame the private contractor who will blame the government for paying as little as four rupees [6 cents] per meal," says Mr. Sharma.

The incident sparked a flurry of media reports about children falling ill because of mid-day meals across India, highlighting the fact that the tragedy in Bihar is not an isolated incident. In a neighboring district in Bihar state, 60 students had to be hospitalized after eating the school meals; one is reported to be in critical condition.

Economist Reetika Khera, who teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, says that a survey conducted recently in 10 states showed the program was popular with children and parents alike. But its success varied from state to state depending on how much governments were spending on it and if they had monitoring mechanisms in place.

"Bihar fares poorly in accountability measures and monitoring of the scheme, and this incident will hopefully make the state get its act together," says Ms. Khera, adding?that the increasing role of private players in the program, including contractors, centralized kitchens, and so-called self-help groups is another danger to the program. ?Private entities will only come for profit and are generally happier to cut corners. It also raises issues related to enforcement and accountability ? these contracts often go to those with political connections."

Parents told reporters that some ingredients for the meals were stored at the headmistress's house and brought to the school each day because there was no space to store them at the school. The school?s ?kitchen,? like many school kitchens in rural India, isn't what many Westerners might think of as a kitchen. It's a makeshift area to cook, made out of bricks and situated outside the classroom, according to Reuters.

In an effort to address the issue, the Bihar government has asked all school principals and cooks to first taste the food before serving it to children. The Bihar government says it will construct kitchen storage spaces in schools across the state to address the problem, except for the 13,500 state-run schools that do not even have the land to construct a kitchen shed.?

That may not be enough. A report by India's Human Resource Development ministry had forewarned in March of various problems with the program?s implementation, specifically in Bihar. The report had said the food was of bad quality and cooked in unhygienic conditions, adding that children and parents were unhappy.

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How to Uninstall Internet Explorer 11 from Windows 8.1

With the passage of time the users can experience a wide range of browsers for a quicker and easier access of the websites. They do not need to be dependent on internet explorer now. The users can use now Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome and many other browsers to access their desired sites. So the popularity of Internet Explorer has decreased now and the users are looking for any other browser. Internet explorer 11 comes by default with Windows 8.1. Some users do not want to use Internet Explorer as their default browser and they look for the ways to uninstall it from their Windows 8.1. Though it is an advanced version and it works smoothly, but still they do not want to use it.

It seems a hard nut to crack to the users to uninstall Internet Explorer 11?from Windows 8.1 due to its advanced features. You need to follow only a few steps given below to perform this task. So, lets begin the tutorial now.

Steps to Uninstall Internet Explorer 11 from Windows 8.1

Step 1: You need to use Windows + R keys for opening RUN. Type ?appwiz.cpl? here and press OK to go ahead.

Step 2: Now a Windows will appear on your screen where you will find an option ?Turn Windows Features on or off? on the left side as it has shown in the image below.

Step 3: Once you click on the option mentioned above, you will be led towards another window?where you will find Windows Features with check marks before them. You need to look for the Internet Explorer 10 or Internet Explorer 11 in the list. It will be surely checked. You need to uncheck the box in order to uninstall it from your system.

Step 4: Once you uncheck the box, a message will appear before you and you need to verify that you really want to uninstall Internet Explorer from your system.

Step 5: It will uninstall it from your system. You will not see its icon on your taskbar. If you go to the Metro UI in Windows 8.1, it will also not appear in the Start Screen. It shows that you have successfully uninstalled the Internet Explorer 11 from Windows 8.1.

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The Complete Visual History of Wolverine's Suit

Oh, that yellow spandex with beautiful blue trunks. As classic as that suit was, I have no beef with Wolverine's badassery tossing that away in the movies (plus, with a body like Hugh Jackman's...). But still, it's nice to see the Wolverine we all loved as a child again. Here's the full history of all the suits that Wolverine has ever worn.

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