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The Twins Before Surgery
Maria Clara and Maria Eduarda Oliveira Santana are twins from Salvador, Brazil, who — until recently — were conjoined. Before they underwent separation surgery, Brazilian photographer Mateus André photographed the twins and their family. “I met them by chance, when my wife and I were spending some days in Goiânia,” André told the Huffington Post. “We were walking in the city, and I saw a story on TV asking for donations.” Inspired to help, André visited the family at the Casa do Interior de Goiás, where they were awaiting the then 3-month-old girls’ surgery. (Photo credit: Mateus Andre/Flickr)

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A stunning series of photographs shows now five-month-old conjoined twins Maria Clara and Maria Eduarda Oliveira Santana before and after their separation surgery.

Students, parents and teachers have long lamented the hours that kids spend taking standardized tests, especially since the introduction of the Common Core academic standards. But just how much time each year is it?
A. Between 10-15 hours.
B. Between 20-25 hours.
C. Between 30-35 hours.
The correct answer is “B,” according to a comprehensive study of 66 of the nation’s big-city school districts by the Council of the Great City Schools. It said testing amounts to about 2.3 percent of classroom time for the average eighth-grader in public school. Between pre-K and 12th grade, students took about 112 mandatory standardized exams.
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The study analyzed the time spent actually taking the tests, but it did not include the hours devoted to preparation ahead of the testing required by the federal government, states or local districts. It also did not include regular day-to-day classroom quizzes and tests in reading, math, science, foreign languages and more.
In connection with the study’s release Saturday, President Barack Obama called for capping standardized testing at 2 percent of classroom time. Even while acknowledging that the government shares some responsibility for an over-emphasis on testing, the president said federal officials would work with states, schools and teachers to “make sure that we’re not obsessing about testing.”
The Obama administration still supports annual standardized tests as a necessary assessment tool, and both House and Senate versions of an update to the No Child Left Behind law would continue annual testing. But the rewrite legislation would let states decide how to use test results to determine what to do with struggling schools. Differences between the two bills still need to be worked out.
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“Learning is about so much more than just filling in the right bubble,” Obama said in a video released on Facebook. “So we’re going to work with states, school districts, teachers, and parents to make sure that we’re not obsessing about testing.”
To drive the point home, Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan scheduled an Oval Office meeting Monday with teachers and school officials working to reduce testing time.
“How much constitutes too much time is really difficult to answer,” said Michael Casserly, the council’s executive director. He said the study found plenty of redundancy in required testing — supporting concerns from teachers and other critics about the tests consuming too much teaching and learning time.
For example, Casserly said that researchers found some states and school districts were mandating not only end-of-year tests, but end-of-course tests in the same subjects, in the same grade.
“Having states and school districts jointly reviewing redundancy and overlap in their testing requirements will be an important step in reducing unnecessary assessments,” he said.
The council reviewed testing for more than 7 million students in about three dozen states during the 2014-2015 school year.
A “testing action plan” released by the Education Department over the weekend said too many schools have unnecessary testing.
The department pledged to work with states and schools on ways to reduce time spent on testing, with federal guidance to the states expected in January. The plan also said the agency has adjusted its policies to provide more flexibility to states on how much significance to place on student test results in evaluating teachers.
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Aiming to close achievement gaps and assess learning, the No Child Left Behind Act signed by President George W. Bush in 2002 mandated annual testing in reading and math for students in grades three through eight and again in high school. States and local school districts decide which standardized assessments to use to gauge student learning and progress in those two subjects and others.
This past spring saw the rollout of new tests based on the Common Core college-ready academic standards in reading and math. About 12 million students in 29 states and the District of Columbia took the tests developed by two groups — the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC).

Speaker John Boehner hopes to exit Congress by week’s end, but several key outstanding issues for Republicans are standing in his way. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
As John Boehner’s tumultuous years as House speaker come to a close this week — or so he devoutly hopes — his final fights may determine the fate of his presumed successor, Paul Ryan, who already is bracing for ideological attacks from the hardline members whose support for him is tentative at best.
The full House Republican conference was scheduled to meet Monday night to discuss a looming debt limit deadline and a potential two-year resolution to the fiscal questions that dogged most of Boehner’s tenure. They could meet again Tuesday morning to discuss those same issues.
A full House vote on who will succeed Boehner is scheduled for Thursday, the day after Republicans decide behind closed doors whom they will line up behind. And if all goes according to plan — and that’s still a significant “if” — Boehner will leave Congress on Friday and be replaced as speaker by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who has never held an official role on the House GOP leadership team.
When Boehner leaves the Capitol for the final time, it will mark an end to a complicated, fraught chapter for House Republicans — a chapter that began in 2010 when they regained the majority and was marked by stalemates, deadline crises and a 16-day government shutdown in 2013, and is ending with the largest GOP majority since Harry Truman was in the White House. The climax came this month with Boehner’s surprise resignation and an even more stunning move from his second in command, Kevin McCarthy, who bowed out of the running to be speaker even before his party’s conference got to vote on him. The next chapter is still full of blank spaces and question marks about whether the badly fractured House Republican conference will learn from its recent history.
Boehner had discussed wanting to “clean the barn” for his successor, even before Ryan reluctantly bowed to pressure to run for the post, but the Treasury Department made that job much more complicated when it pushed up the deadline for Congress to act on re-upping the government’s borrowing authority. As Ryan was trying to decide whether he would seek the leadership post — or perhaps, more accurately, grappling with the fact that the uncertainty created by his colleagues changed the course of his career no matter what — Boehner and his aides were privately working toward a solution to the debt-limit problem.
Republican leadership aides know and readily acknowledge that if they push forward with any sort of legislation to extend the debt ceiling, whether it’s a clean extension or part of a larger fiscal package that Congressional leaders are currently negotiating with the White House, they will need to do so on the backs of Democrats whose votes they will need.
Of course, it was exactly that kind of vote, to fund the government or raise the debt limit, for which Boehner relied on Democrats to avert major fiscal catastrophe and for which the hard-right conservatives in his party castigated him. His agreeing to work with Democrats and Senate Republicans to keep the basic functions of the government operational was the main reason tea party Republicans tried to use floor procedures to oust him. And for his part, Ryan has tried to assure hard-line conservatives in his party that he will not push legislation without the majority support of his conference, an edict referred to colloquially in Washington as the “Hastert Rule” after the speaker who first implemented the approach.
The budget and debt-ceiling votes make a fitting backdrop to the leadership vote, because the significant ideological differences within the House GOP conference are not going to disappear just because Boehner is leaving Congress.
The most conservative members of the House are wary of Ryan’s previous willingness to consent to pragmatic budget compromises, notably a deal he made with Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington in 2013 to set budget spending levels for two years and take the threat of government shutdowns off the table. The White House, Boehner and respective congressional leaders are now seeking a similar two-year framework, which would help Ryan avoid these fights at the outset of his tenure and take the issues off the table for the 2016 presidential campaign.
Look out Taylor Swift! Kim Kardashian’s nipping at your heels.
Earlier this month, the “Shake It Off” singer became the most followed person on Instagram when she reached 50 million followers. Since then, she has gained another 2.7 million, putting her at a whopping 52.7 million followers. Now Kim is proving to be rather stiff competition.
On Monday, the 35-year-old posted a pic of her and Kanye West lounging in the backseat of a car. “WAIT!!!! I KNOW I’M LATE BUT 50 MILLION INSTAGRAM FOLLOWERS!!!! SERIOUSLY YOU DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU!!” she captioned the shot.
The image is rather mild compared to Kim’s past milestone posts. When the brunette bombshell reached 27 million followers, she shared a seductive pic of herself in lace leopard underwear sprawled on a bed, and when she hit 42 million, she shared a risqué cleavage selfie.

Criss Angel Shares Heartbreaking Family Photos of Son, 2, Following Leukemia Diagnosis, Chemo Treatments
Criss Angel Shares Heartbreaking Family Photos of Son, 2, Following Leukemia Diagnosis, Chemo Treatments
Beyond heartbreaking. Criss Angel shared photos of his son, Johnny, who was just diagnosed with leukemia, on Monday, Oct. 26.
The illusionist, 47, shared a gut-wrenching pic of Johnny, 2, wearing Mickey Mouse pajamas, and himself alongside the boy’s mother, Angel’s girlfriend Shaunyl Benson, in the little boy’s bed. “4th day chemo,” Angel tweeted. “Shaunyl, Johnny and I can’t thank you enough for the overwhelming outpouring of love, prayers and support. #Amazing”
Angel canceled his Believe magic shows at the Luxor in Las Vegas through Nov. 1 to fly back to Australia so that he could be with Johnny, the Las Vegas Sun first reported.
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“In light of a family emergency the news I was going to announce this weekend will be postponed,” he tweeted on Friday, Oct. 23. “Thank you.”
The magician followed up his first tweet with two more, including a photo of him holding his little boy. This also marked the first time Angel had confirmed he was a father.

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Kourtney, Khloé, Kylie, Kendall, and Kim in their jammies at a baby shower honoring Mrs. Kardashian West on Sunday (Instagram)
The shower must go on!
Kim Kardashian postponed her baby shower, which was scheduled for the weekend of Oct. 17, in light of Lamar Odom’s health crisis. However, on Sunday, she got her day — and Khloé was there.
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Kourtney and Kylie at the shower (Instagram)
Not one to skip a party in her honor, Kim, who is expecting her second child with Kanye West this December, was feted by her family at the shower, which had a Troop Beverly Hills theme. (Yes, the 1989 movie starring Shelley Long as den mom of the Wilderness Girls.) Photos showed Kim and her sisters — including Khloé, who has been keeping vigil by her estranged husband’s bedside — dressed in striped pajamas and hanging out by tents boasting signs saying, “Troop 332, Beverly Hills, CA.” Decorations included Girl Scout Cookies, Louis Vuitton suitcases, and camping lanterns.
Kylie Jenner posted a photo of the shower festivities that said, “just our usual morning routine #troopbeverlyhills #sipstea,” as she and Kourtney, or shall we call her Wonder Woman, drank out of mugs in front of tents.
Tyga’s lady love also posted a black-and-white photo of all five sisters, writing, “Baby shower vibes.” 
Khloé debuted a new hairstyle at the party. After sticking by Lamar’s side pretty much 24/7, she was eager to give her locks some TLC, chopping them into a lob. Her hairstylist, Jen Atkin, posted a photo on Instagram.
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Khloé’s new hairstyle (Instagram)
So why Troop Beverly Hills? Kim apparently loves the ‘80s flick, she can recite lines from it, and even watched it with Kanye on their first wedding anniversary. She previously posted a Vine video of herself reciting a line from the film: "I may be a beginner at some things, but I’ve got a black belt in shopping.”
Kim’s shower was likely scaled down (no word on if it took place at her friend Allison Azoff’s family’s Beverly Hills estate), but don’t worry, Kim is still getting in her fair share of celebrating in this month. On Friday, she partied with her siblings (minus Khloé) and mom at Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing’s 30th birthday bash.

Who can resist a story that involves a daring rescue of a kitty from near certain death? Not me.
Evidently neither can the rescuer, a lady who goes by the unusual internet name of “Your Brain On Pizza.” (She hasn’t released her real name online, best we can tell.) Riding her 2013 Honda CBR250R, the woman waits patiently at a busy intersection. She yawns. Then, at 12 seconds into the video, a red vehicle travels from left to right, appearing to drop the kitten right into the middle of the road; it’s thought the cat had perhaps sought sanctuary in the engine bay and thus fell out. (This wouldn’t be the first time a cat has gotten stuck in a car). 
The driver, we assume, had no idea.
Neither did the woman, initially; she said on Reddit that she thought the cat was a leaf. As soon as she identified the stranded feline in the road, the lady leaped off her bike, into traffic, and heroically sprung to the rescue. Amazingly the kitten was unhurt, despite numerous vehicles driving directly over it.
After uploaded the video to YouTube and posting the clip to Reddit, our heroic rescuer said she has taken the kitten home. She has also traced the owner of the red vehicle and is in the process of determining if the cat was theirs. For now, though, the wee little rascal is being called Skidmark. 
Regardless of where it calls home, this is one very lucky kitty. And “Your Brain On Pizza” is our new Internet hero.

Genevieve Nnaji has reacted to claims that her movies help project domestic violence.
Actress/ producer Genevieve Nnaji
 
Speaking exclusively to Vanguard the actress said she never actually gave this notion a though as she has only been busy playing roles in movies as they come her way.
She said: “I haven’t even given that a thought because I thought I am interpreting my role as an actress.
The actress who expressed her stand on equality said she disapproves of domestic violence.
“I believe in equal rights of all citizens. I am a strong advocate of equal rights and social justice for all humans. I frown at domestic violence and as a full-baked African woman, I know that who we are and what we believe is a reflection of what we do.”
She also emphasized the fact that she doesn’t necessarily choose movie roles but producers come looking for her given their belief that she can deliver her roles.
“I don’t actually choose the roles. Producers usually look out for actors they believe that can interprete certain roles. They usually choose me because they think and believe that I am a good role interpreter.”
The 36-year-old actress has been on a recent ‘promotion tour’ across the media as she gears up to release her first self-produced movie Road To Yesterday.

You may remember backup singer Judith Hill from her star turn in the posthumous Michael Jackson documentary This Is It, during which she and the King of Pop thrillingly dueted on “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You,” or from her passionate “Heal the World” performance at Jackson’s subsequent memorial. Or maybe you remember her from the Oscar-winning 20 Feet From Stardom, in which she held her own alongside backup-singing legends like Darlene Love and Merry Clayton. And if neither of those ring a bell, then you probably know her as the four-chair frontrunner of The Voice Season 4.
Hill has already worked with some of the best in the business, but she still isn’t quite a household name. However, now the distance between her and stardom is about to get a lot shorter. Not only is she finally officially releasing her debut album, Back in Time, but the album was a collaboration with yet another superstar: the one and only Prince. His Great Purple Majesty invited Hill to his fabled Paisley Park studio in Minneapolis after randomly catching a TV interview with Hill, in which she spoke of her dream to work with him.
“He said, ‘I’d like to call Judith,’ and he reached out to my management,” Hill recalls incredulously. “He personally called me on my cell phone. It was an unknown number. Oh, they prepped me. They said, 'Prince is going to call you today.’ I was shaking.”
True to the title Back in Time, the album’s whirlwind recording process was old-school: all-analog, and the result of freeform Paisley Park jam sessions. “It was so inspiring and refreshing, because it was like going back to the old days of just jamming… just hit 'record,’ one take, organic. Nothing was too overthought, just what we felt at the time,” Hill tells Yahoo Music. “His process is really amazing, and I learned a lot… He pushes you to excellence and he just wants the best for you. And he lives in a whole 'nother world. So it rubs off on you, and you just grow so much musically.”
Now that Hill has worked with two of the 1980s’ greatest musical icons – Michael Jackson and Prince – she sees a common thread between them when it comes to work ethic. “There’s a lot of great similarities in terms of their epicness and how they approach things,” she says. “The attention to detail, being very specific about everything they want. They see the big picture and they’re very involved. I just learned as an artist that it’s so important to be hands-on.”
Many people assumed that Hill’s brilliant performance at Jackson’s 2009 memorial, which was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide, would have been her big break, but Hill deliberately adopted a low profile during that media frenzy. “That was a very tragic and crazy time,” she recalls. “We were thrown into the limelight in a weird way. All of a sudden, there was a film that came out about us rehearsing. I look back at that chapter and it’s so bittersweet. Because it’s like, man, Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, the beautiful last few hours that we spent with him and what he shared with us. It was a circus after he died, it really was. We were caught in the whirlwind. I was really young and green at the time, and it was kind of scary.”
Four years later, Hill got another break via The Voice, and she was the one to watch from the season’s very first episode. But then she was voted off in eighth place, in what is still widely considered one of the biggest shockers in Voice history. You may recall that was night that her coach, Adam Levine, got in hot water for blurting out “I hate this country!” – his unscripted, furious reaction to seeing Hill and another one of his talented contestants, Sarah Simmons, go home.
“I learned a lot about America that week,” Hill chuckles now, referring to her apparently polarizing decision to perform a funked-up version of Justin Bieber and will.i.am’s “#that POWER,” which was major departure from her previous ballads. “That’s the thing about that show – you learn so much about your country, and who you are to your country. That was an interesting experience – like, yeah, OK, if you try something a little riskier, you might lose Middle America. [I learned about] finding the part that is relatable about me to the world and really simplifying that.”
But everything has its way of working out. Hill, now 31 years old, says, “I wanted to celebrate the funk that week, and it’s funny that we’ve come to the funk now, with me doing a funk record with Prince.” [One track on Back in Time, “Turn It Up,” even amusingly features Prince yelling in the background, “Omigod, Judith, I saw you on The Voice!”] “So I got to finally do it. But maybe The Voice wasn’t the place for that

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“No chill” is how the Brown University student newspaper, the Daily Herald, described the Brown students responsible for sharing photos of Malia Obama near a bunch of red Solo cups that look suspiciously like they were being used to play beer pong.

The insinuation, of course, was that the First Daughter, who is 17, may have been imbibing an adult beverage during a college visit. For shame!

In a staff-signed editorial, the Herald wrote, “It is a shame that Malia was unable to visit Brown and enjoy herself at a party without several news headlines coming out about it the next day.”

The paper went on to characterize the students as being embarrassed and acting without thinking. In other words: Way to go nerds, now the cool girl will never party with us.

The op-ed writes about student excitement on Twitter but gets no closer to patient zero in this Malia controversy outbreak: whoever Snapchatted The Daily Caller. I mean, there’s no chill and then there’s tattling on a teenage girl to Tucker Carlson. Snapchat is supposed to be cool. It’s how teens plan parties in secret and send each other messages us Olds can’t decode. When you send a Snapchat to an authority figure, you’re violating the entire credo of the enterprise. Social media is supposed to be about celebrating youth, not punishing it!

“Malia Obama is my next best friend,” the Snapchat caption reads. No, she is definitely not.
Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin has stated that the country cannot rely entirely on foreign technology to defeat Islamist group, Boko Haram and tackle other security challenges.  
The CDS made the comment at the Nigeria Air Force Research and Development Seminar 2015 with the theme: “Maximising potentials for self-reliance in Nigeria Air Force through innovation and local partnership”. 
According to The Nation, he said Nigeria was gifted with professionals, who were contributing positively to technology in different parts of the world.
He however lamented that lack of cooperation was responsible for the technological and industrial backwardness Nigeria was currently experiencing.
 
He said: “There must be collaboration among the military, academia and of course the technocrats and industrialists to harness our various endowments to push Nigeria forward technologically.”.
While answering questions as regards the December deadline given to the military by President Muhammadu Buhari to defeat Boko Haram, after the event, the CDS said: “That is why we are encouraging research and development, so that we can be self-reliant in our production and in no distance future, we will get there. Research and development is a tripod arrangement: the user, manufacturer and academia.
“The three must synergise. So, we being the users need all the other legs so that we can get the products that are required to prosecute insurgency.
“We will reach out to local manufacturers to make sure that we inculcate them into the whole arrangement.
“We are winning the war against  insurgency and we will keep doing that. We are working with timeline and we have our mandate and we are working within our mandate.
“Funding is usually an issue you have in any project. But if you are determined and focused, you will get along. Research and development is not a one-day issue. It is a gradual issue. So, as the funds come in, we will begin to improve on which ever project we are into.
“Nuclear energy is another form of energy. So, for us as a nation, we have all the institutions that have been put in place by government to develop our nuclear energy. In Obafemi Awolowo University, there is a centre for nuclear development, which is an outlet to make sure that we develop our nuclear capabilities.”
 
Meanwhile, against humanity.
The country also expressed its willingness to support the Nigerian government in the fight against Boko Haram and terrorism
The Defence Headquarters has dismissed reports that Nigeria has hired mercenaries to fight against the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast of the country.
It was reported yesterday that the Nigerian authorities had decided a, along with some heavy weaponry from South African private military company Specialized Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection.
Speaking with The Nation about the allegations, the DHQ director of defence information, Colonel Rabe Abubakar, insisted that the Nigerian military had the ability to eliminate terrorism. He characterized the reports as a deliberate attempt to set Nigerians against the government and the military.
“The issue about mercenaries lacks substance; I want you to note that for the past months, the military has been fighting this war more and more effectively and all Nigerians, irrespective of where they live, have come to understand that we are making tremendous progress.
“So, why should some people bring up this idea of bringing in mercenaries? Which mercenaries, from where and to do what?
“You see, all this is part of the usual antics of blackmail by the enemies of Nigeria – those who do not want the progress that the Nigerian military are making and those who are not happy with the successes we are recording.
 
“They are trying to derail by inciting Nigerians against the Nigerian armed forces. There is no nation in the world where such thing (hiring mercenaries while winning a battle) happens.
“We are doing our best and achieving effective results; we don’t need to say it because Nigerians see it and appreciate what we are doing. We will continue to use our soldiers, our officers and all our domestic resources.
“The Nigerian armed forces is doing its best to ensure that we surmount the Boko Haram issue and other allied criminalities; so, such disinformation or blackmail will not deter us from doing what we are supposed to be doing. It is not just a lie; it is completely unfounded and baseless.
“We will continue to do our part and our armed forces are capable of dislodging Boko Haram. We have done it elsewhere and we will do it in our country.”
Shortly after his inauguration, Muhammadu Buhari ordered the Nigerian service chiefs to eliminate the insurgency by the end of the year.
The military continue the offensive in the northeast claiming that the army is winning the anti-Boko Haram war.

The Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer was viewed more than 112 million times online in 24 hours, according to a post from Lucasfilm on StarWars.com.
Combined with the 16 million viewers that tuned in to watch the trailer on Monday Night Football, that's a total of 128 million views.
The advance ticket sales, which kicked off after the trailer debuted on Monday, broke numerous records, including the biggest-ever 24 hours for advance sales in numerous countries. In the U.K., more than 200,000 tickets were sold in the first day. Several ticket sales sites crashed under the high demand.
The spot for the J.J. Abrams-directed film aired during halftime of ESPN's MNF, following the release of the film's poster over the weekend.
This marks a new record for the most views of a trailer in 24 hours. Of course, Star Wars is breaking its own record, set by the second teaser it released this past April.
The first teaser, which premiered on Nov. 28, 2014, hit 55 million views in its first 24 hours and 110 million in its first 12 days. The second trailer, which debuted in April 2015 at Star Wars Celebration, got 88 million views in the first 24 hours and 145 million in the first week.
The Nigerian Army has said that it has uncovered a plan by the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram to poison water sources in the North East region.
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Major Joseph Adekunle Afolasade, the As­sistant Director, Army Public Relations Officer of 33 Artilery Brigade Bauchi, disclosed this in a state­ment on Friday, October 23.
Afolasade said out of desperation, the insurgents who are fleeing their camps are planning to harm innocent people, The Sun reports.
The statement reads: “The Command wish­es to inform the general public that Boko Haram terrorists plan to buy large quantity of rat poi­son and other poisonous items from markets to en­able them poison water sources particularly in the North Eastern states.
 
The Nigerian Army Theater Command there­fore calls on the general public particularly market men and women, vendors of such items to be vigi­lant.”
The statement urged citizens to report any per­son buying large quanti­ties of such commodities to security agencies.
Meanwhile Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), and tackle other security challenges.  
He said Nigeria was gifted with professionals, who were contributing positively to technology in different parts of the world.
Malia Obama Receives Apology From Brown University Students After Beer Pong Photos Surface From Campus Visit

Malia Obama Receives Apology From Brown University Students After Beer Pong Photos Surface From Campus Visit
They're very, very sorry. Brown University students apologized to Malia Obama for posting photos of the President's daughter allegedly playing beer pong during a recent visit to the school's campus.
An editorial titled, "Sorry, Malia Obama," was published this past Tuesday, Oct. 20, in The Brown Daily Herald, and included a detailed apology to the First Daughter on behalf of the school's students.
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"The college application and selection process is stressful for most students who go through it, but one can only imagine how much the stress multiplies when the whole nation is watching. That is what Malia Obama is experiencing right now," it read. "News outlets as prominent as the New York Times are covering her touring process, and students at elite colleges across the country cross their fingers and chat over dining hall food about how cool it would be to go to the same school as President Obama’s daughter."
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POTUS' eldest recently visited the Providence, R.I., Ivy League university as a prospective option for her continued education. While there, Malia stopped by a college party, where someone took a Snapchat photo later blasted by The Daily Caller that showed the 17-year-old standing by a beer pong table topped by red Solo cups.
BuzzFeed reported that one anonymous tweeter claimed, "Malia Obama was taking shots and playing beer pong at a party last night LOL."
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The Brown editorial noted that students didn't realize their social media posts would go viral. "Some of the tweets include photographs of her that were clearly taken when she was not looking. Many of them mention her presence at a party, where she was seen taking shots and playing beer pong," the editorial continued. "The motivation to take these pictures was obvious: being at a party with the president’s daughter was an exciting, unexpected moment that many of us wanted to share with our friends. We often do not think about our tweets and Snapchats reaching anyone besides our friends and followers, and certainly not news outlets with wide circulation like Buzzfeed. Many Brown students were surprised and embarrassed to see themselves cited in the articles, as other Brown students posted them on Facebook with disappointed captions that criticized their peers for not simply leaving the 17-year-old alone on her college visit."
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The editorial board concluded that it was "a shame" that the high school senior had no privacy during her visit. "Malia did not choose to grow up in the White House, and it is unfair that everything she does at just 17 years old is subject to such harsh scrutiny," the editorial concluded. "While the chances of her selecting Brown have probably decreased since the publication of those articles, if she does ever come back to Brown, hopefully next time we will 'have more chill.'"

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