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2025-01-09   

As we navigate our own paths to self-improvement and growth, let us remember Jack's story as a testament to the power of perseverance in the face of failure. May we be inspired to embrace the challenges that come our way, to learn from our mistakes, and to never give up on our journey towards self-discipline and personal growth.Many of the residents of Isla Puting Bato in Tondo, Manila took to the waters of Manila Bay to escape the blaze that consumed their community on Sunday morning. In Nico Waje’s report on 24 Oras Weekend on Sunday, almost 2,000 families were affected by the fire that started past 8 a.m. More than 30 fire trucks responded to the fire, as well as two helicopters that were used to scoop water from the sea, and four fireboats of the Philippine Coast Guard. Video showed residents taking to the water on makeshift rafts with a few belongings. “Dito na namin sa bangka dinaan kasi di kami makadaan sa gitna,” affected resident Maria Pagaduan said. (We used the boats since we couldn't pass through the fire.) Some men were seen carrying a coffin away from the scene. “Nagising kami malaki na yung sunog, Di ko po alam, sir kung paano makabangon ulit,” resident Richelle Loberiano said. (The fire was already big when we woke. I don’t know how we can recover from this.) Residents hurriedly salvaged whatever belongings they could. “Nadaanan ko ito, hinablot ko na lang diretso sabay talon dagat. Kahit paano pwede ko to mabenta para may makain,” affected resident Leonido Dilantar said, holding two roosters. (I just picked them up and then jumped into the sea. At least I can sell them so that I can eat.) According to the Bureau of Fire Protection, the fire left about P3.5 million worth of damage. Authorities are still finding out the number of casualties. The fire started on the second floor of a house in Purok Tres but authorities are still investigating the cause of the blaze. “Napakahirap po unang-una po yung dami ng tao. Pangalawa yung pong yari ng kanilang mga bahay. Most po ay gawa sa light materials po na madaling magliyab o masunog. Pangatlo po ay yung mga daan, napakaliit po,” said Fire Senior Inspector Alejandro Ramos of the Bureau of Fire Portection. (It is difficult since there are a lot of people. Second, the houses are mostly made of light materials that easily catch fire. Third, the streets are narrow.) He added that since the location is beside the sea, the strong winds intensified the fire. Firefighters also had to use a ladder to put out the fire through the Manila International Container Terminal (MICT). MICT continued normal operations. The fire was declared out at 4:07 p.m. The Department of Social Welfare and Development ordered its National Capital Region field office to help the affected residents. Another fire hit a commercial-residential area near the Dangwa flower market in Sampaloc, Manila at around 6:30 p.m. It reached third alarm before it was declared fire out at 8:12 p.m. — Mariel Celine Serquiña/BM, GMA Integrated NewsRavens healthy after bye week, but Giants will have new QBjilix 。

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The significance of this case goes beyond the immediate repercussions for the individuals involved. It serves as a cautionary tale for all individuals entrusted with sensitive information and responsibilities. It reminds us of the importance of staying true to our principles and upholding the values that define us as individuals and as a nation. It underscores the need for vigilance and integrity in the face of temptation and external pressures.

One of the crucial factors pointing towards a stock market bottom is the stabilization of economic fundamentals. Despite the challenges posed by the current global economic climate, there are signs of recovery and resilience in various sectors. Companies are adapting to new ways of operating, governments are implementing stimulus packages, and consumers are gradually regaining confidence. These positive developments are laying the groundwork for a potential market rebound.As the world grapples with a myriad of challenges, from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic to climate change and rising geopolitical tensions, it is easy to overlook the plight of the Syrian people. But we must not forget that Syria remains a nation in crisis, a country torn apart by war and suffering. The situation in Syria demands our attention and our action. We must work together to end the conflict, alleviate the humanitarian crisis, and support the people of Syria as they strive to rebuild their lives and their country.The Zamfara State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed shock at the alleged highest level of disregard for the nation’s constitution as displayed by Governor Dauda Lawal, his executive and the state legislature in the presentation and receipt of the 2025 budget proposal. In a statement issued by the Zamfara State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Malam Yusuf Idris, said the illegality that accompanied the budget presentation at the State House of Assembly has appeared most embarrassing to the state government and to the entire people of the state. The statement critisized that, a state annual budget proposal presentation event is usually done openly for the entire world to see, know and possibly comment or contribute to the way and manner public taxpayers’ money will be utilized by the government in the incoming year. According to it, ”While planning to spend over N545 billion, Governor Dauda and his stooges cowardly decided to hide themselves in the hollowed chamber of the state assembly to cook up in secrecy how they intend to perfectly perpetrate their hidden agenda. ”To do this, the government, in collaboration with some bad security personnel, shielded everyone, especially the media, from covering the presentation and by implication denying the public knowledge or access to the budget. ”The legislature had ahead of the presentation decided to suspend nine out of the 24 member state assembly who were suspected to possibly challenge the document during and after the presentation so that the process would go unchallenged. ”This development plus the refusal of the member representing Kaura Namoda to participate in the unholy presentation left the assembly unfortunately for Governor Dauda’s proponents with less than two-thirds of members who cannot constitutionally pass any bill and therefore nullify and void the action. ”Even the 14 members that remained in the assembly were said to have dropped to eight according to one media source, therefore, the APC is calling on the Governor, the state government and the state House of Assembly to immediately reverse the charade done Thursday as well as apologize to the people in their own interest or we will seek legal redress by dragging them to court. ”We are appealing to the nation’s anti-corruption agencies especially the EFCC and ICPC to investigate the total abuse of financial regulations by the Governor’s Cabal to perpetuate illegality in our dear state. ”Throughout the country, at this moment, there’s no state assembly that has suspended about half of its members even the crisis in Rivers state cannot be compared to the happenings in our dear state where eight members were suspended at a go since February 2024. ”Under the House Standing Rules, you can only suspend a member for not more than two weeks, which is equivalent to eight legislative days, thus making this one a gross violation, moreso when the affected members have not been receiving their salaries and allowances nor where they were given a fair hearing to appear before the House Ethics and Privileges Committee over the matter for which they were suspended and without recourse to the fact that their respective constituencies are not represented at crucial decisions like the annual budget for ten months now”, the statement further challenged.

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It looked like a recipe for disaster. So, when his country's swimmers were being accused of doping earlier this year, one Chinese official cooked up something fast. He blamed it on contaminated noodles. In fact, he argued, it could have been a culinary conspiracy concocted by criminals, whose actions led to the cooking wine used to prepare the noodles being laced with a banned heart drug that found its way into an athlete's system. This theory was spelled out to international anti-doping officials during a meeting and, after weeks of wrangling, finally made it into the thousands of pages of data handed over to the lawyer who investigated the case involving 23 Chinese swimmers who had tested positive for that same drug. The attorney, appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency, refused to consider that scenario as he sifted through the evidence. In spelling out his reasoning, lawyer Eric Cottier paid heed to the half-baked nature of the theory. "The Investigator considers this scenario, which he has described in the conditional tense, to be possible, no less, no more," Cottier wrote. Even without the contaminated-noodles theory, Cottier found problems with the way WADA and the Chinese handled the case but ultimately determined WADA had acted reasonably in not appealing China's conclusion that its athletes had been inadvertently contaminated. Critics of the way the China case was handled can't help but wonder if a wider exploration of the noodle theory, details of which were discovered by The Associated Press via notes and emails from after the meeting where it was delivered, might have lent a different flavor to Cottier's conclusions. "There are more story twists to the ways the Chinese explain the TMZ case than a James Bond movie," said Rob Koehler, the director general of the advocacy group Global Athlete. "And all of it is complete fiction." In April, reporting from the New York Times and the German broadcaster ARD revealed that the 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine, also known as TMZ. China's anti-doping agency determined the athletes had been contaminated, and so, did not sanction them. WADA accepted that explanation, did not press the case further, and China was never made to deliver a public notice about the "no-fault findings," as is often seen in similar cases. The stock explanation for the contamination was that traces of TMZ were found in the kitchen of a hotel where the swimmers were staying. In his 58-page report, Cottier relayed some suspicions about the feasibility of that chain of events — noting that WADA's chief scientist "saw no other solution than to accept it, even if he continued to have doubts about the reality of contamination as described by the Chinese authorities." But without evidence to support pursuing the case, and with the chance of winning an appeal at almost nil, Cottier determined WADA's "decision not to appeal appears indisputably reasonable." A mystery remained: How did those traces of TMZ get into the kitchen? Shortly after the doping positives were revealed, the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations held a meeting on April 30 where it heard from the leader of China's agency, Li Zhiquan. Li's presentation was mostly filled with the same talking points that have been delivered throughout the saga — that the positive tests resulted from contamination from the kitchen. But he expanded on one way the kitchen might have become contaminated, harkening to another case in China involving a low-level TMZ positive. A pharmaceutical factory, he explained, had used industrial alcohol in the distillation process for producing TMZ. The industrial alcohol laced with the drug "then entered the market through illegal channels," he said. The alcohol "was re-used by the perpetrators to process and produce cooking wine, which is an important seasoning used locally to make beef noodles," Li said. "The contaminated beef noodles were consumed by that athlete, resulting in an extremely low concentration of TMZ in the positive sample. "The wrongdoers involved have been brought to justice." This new information raised eyebrows among the anti-doping leaders listening to Li's report. So much so that over the next month, several emails ensued to make sure the details about the noodles and wine made their way to WADA lawyers, who could then pass it onto Cottier. Eventually, Li did pass on the information to WADA general counsel Ross Wenzel and, just to be sure, one of the anti-doping leaders forwarded it, as well, according to the emails seen by the AP. All this came with Li's request that the noodles story be kept confidential. Turns out, it made it into Cottier's report, though he took the information with a grain of salt. "Indeed, giving it more attention would have required it to be documented, then scientifically verified and validated," he wrote. Neither Wenzel nor officials at the Chinese anti-doping agency returned messages from AP asking about the noodles conspiracy and the other athlete who Li suggested had been contaminated by them. Meanwhile, 11 of the swimmers who originally tested positive competed at the Paris Games earlier this year in a meet held under the cloud of the Chinese doping case. Though WADA considers the case closed, Koehler and others point to situations like this as one of many reasons that an investigation by someone other than Cottier, who was hired by WADA, is still needed. "It gives the appearance that people are just making things up as they go along on this, and hoping the story just goes away," Koehler said. "Which clearly it has not." Get local news delivered to your inbox!

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