The Argentine is back at the Bombonera after a lucrative yet underwhelming year with Shenhua, but Diego believes he did the right thing
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'He filled up Santa's sack with dollars and came back!' – Maradona delighted with Tevez's Boca return
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Centurion Joel Obi limps off as Niang ends goal drought in Torino’s win over Bologna
The Nigeria midfielder could only play for few minutes as the Senegal international ended an 11-game goal drought at the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino
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Strategy: The Buddhist monk who went viral as 'the happiest man in the world' says you can learn to meditate in 5 minutes at a time
Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard has spent his life honing what he calls the "skill" of happiness. Here's his best advice on how to meditate, and build that skill
- Matthieu Ricard, 71, is a Tibetan Buddhist monk who has been practicing meditation since his 20s.
- Ricard has used his unlikely fame to teach others how to hone what he calls the "skill" of happiness.
- He recommends everyone try compassion meditation, in which you focus on feelings of altruistic love for at least five minutes daily.
"Mindfulness" may be a buzzword and meditation a fad across both Wall Street and Silicon Valley, but that certainly doesn't mean they are worth ignoring.
We recently spoke with Tibetan Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard for Business Insider's podcast "Success! How I Did It" around the launch of his new book "Beyond the Self." He said that it's impossible to not feel positive effects from practicing a particular form of meditation: one focused on compassion.
You can listen to the full episode below:
Ricard, 71, began studying Buddhism as a doctoral student at the prestigious Pasteur Institute in his native France. After receiving his PhD, he decided that he would travel to the Himalayas, where he became a monk at age 30. Since then, he has become a confidante of the Dalai Lama, a viral TED Talk speaker, and a bestselling author. He's also been invited to lead guided meditations at places like Google.
There are many different kinds of meditation, and each is like any other skill in that it takes practice. Still, we asked Ricard for his most fundamental advice for someone interested in the general practice of meditation, before they're ready to learn nuances of various techniques.
Start with compassion meditation, Ricard said. "There's nothing mysterious," he said. "You don't need to be sitting trying to empty your mind with incense around you under the mango tree."
First, sit comfortably with your eyes closed or unfocused and breathe in and exhale slowly, focusing on your breath. As thoughts race through your mind, don't actively try to ignore them, but rather let them float by, without attaching to any particular one. If you find yourself distracted, bring your focus to your breathing.
When you are sufficiently relaxed, think of someone who makes you happy. Focus on your altruistic love for them.
"We all have unconditional love for a child or someone dear," he said. Such moments of love usually "last 10, 15 seconds, one minute, then we'd do something else, we go to about our work. But suppose you take that as a beautiful strong warm feeling and instead of letting it disappear for 15 seconds you cultivate it for five, 10 minutes, by reviving it. Coming back if you are distracted, keeping the clarity, the vividity, the vividness of that."
And that's it. After practicing that simple meditation exercise, you can begin to spread that compassionate feeling to other specific people, or strangers around you, or a particular part of the world.
As the many studies Ricard has participated in have proven, the mind reacts to this type of meditation, and the brain actually develops a stronger capability for emotional control.
When you're ready to move forward, you can try Ricard's guided meditation below, or check out the guide he published in 2010.
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TB Joshua is 'Nigeria's biggest tourist attraction'
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Obaseki's proactive steps to prevent crisis in Okpella
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New Year: Karu Gbagyis Hold 3rd Annual Cultural Festival
*As FCTA plans collaboration with organisers It was an afternoon of culture, traditions and re-union on Tuesday, January 2, 2018 when Gbagyis in Abuja and outside the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) converged on Karu town in Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) for the 3rd Annual Cultural Festival of Karu Chiefdom in Abuja to herald the […]
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Badoo Killing: Alaka Petitions IGP Over Sealing Of Property
Following the sealing off of his business premises by officials of the Lagos State Government few days ago, an alleged Badoo kingpin, Alaka Abayomi has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Abubakar Idris. Alaka claimed that the sealing off of his business interests by the government agency was based solely on the security report given […]
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Tech: Jeff Sessions has fired the first shot in his long-awaited crackdown on marijuana — and some investors see it as an opportunity
Doing business in the cannabis industry is already complicated and risky. Sessions' move means that investors will have to get smarter.
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a longtime opponent of cannabis, rescinded an Obama-era policy directing the Justice Department to keep its hands off of state-legal cannabis.
- The Justice Department's new guidance leaves it up to federal prosecutors to decide how aggressively to pursue cannabis, which is legal for adult use in eight states.
- Some investors, who are savvy at operating within the cannabis industry's regulatory structure, see Sessions' move as an opportunity.
The Justice Department on Wednesday fired its long-awaited opening shot at the cannabis industry.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced that he will rescind the Cole Memorandum, an Obama-era guidance that directed the Justice Department to place a low priority on enforcing federal law in states where marijuana has been legalized.
The move has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle scrambling to figure out what the change means for the eight states, including California, that have legalized the plant for adult use, as well as the 29 states where medical cannabis is legally prescribed to patients.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican from Colorado, both voiced their opposition to the announcement, and public cannabis companies saw their stocks nosedive on Thursday morning.
But many investors and entrepreneurs who have years of experience operating in the cannabis industry were unperturbed.
"When there's complexity, when there's chaos, when there's uncertainty, that's when the people who are really good at doing what they are doing stand to make really strong gains," Micah Tapman, a managing director at the Colorado-based Canopy Accelerator, which focuses on early-stage investments in the cannabis industry, told Business Insider.
What Sessions' move actually does, and doesn't do
Sessions is a longtime opponent of cannabis — he once joked in 1986 that the Klu Klux Klan was "O.K. until I found out they smoked pot". The Attorney General has dropped hints that he would order the Justice Department to uphold federal law — which considers cannabis an illegal, Schedule I substance — and crack down on the nascent industry since his confirmation last year. But many in the industry have been waiting for Sessions to start a fight over the expansion of cannabis since well before he took office.
The Cole Memo, which Sessions rescinded on Thursday, had been in place since 2013. It instructed the Justice Department to leave cannabis-related businesses and organizations alone in states that have legalized the drug, provided the businesses avoid selling cannabis to minors, pay proper taxes, and avoid diverting cannabis to the black market. The new directive lets federal prosecutors decide whether and how aggressively to enforce federal drug laws in states where cannabis is legal for adults.
Some lawmakers in those states say the change simply creates too much uncertainty.
"The Justice Department's new directive leaves the legal status of cannabis up to 93 US Attorneys," Rep. Jared Polis, a Colorado Democrat who's seeking to become the governor of his home state in 2018, said in a call with reporters. "Whatever side of the bed they wake up on, that's what happens with cannabis."
On the same call, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, said he thinks Sessions has "forgotten state's rights, and forgotten the Tenth Amendment".
"Sessions is entitled to his opinion on cannabis, but he’s not entitled to weaponize his regressive ideas about marijuana against seriously ill Americans, like me, who rely on cannabis as a medicine and that’s exactly what he did today," Rohrabacher added.
Sessions' move was cheered, however, by anti-cannabis activists including the advocacy group Smarter Approaches to Marijuana.
"The green rush from Silicon Valley to Wall Street will be stymied by this memo," Kevin Sabet, the group's CEO, said in a call with reporters. He added that he thinks the Justice Department's new position will "dry up institutional investing in the industry," and hopes it will scare away investors who are only "in it for the money."
On that point, Sabet might actually agree with some investors within the cannabis industry.
Investors see an opportunity in chaos
Krista Whitley is the CEO of Nevada-based Altitude Products, a company that sells accoutrements for cannabis consumers. She said she's seen a "cooling off" of high-net worth individual investors looking to jump into the cannabis industry in the few days since Sessions' announcement.
The move "spooked several investors who had considered dipping their toes in," Whitley said. "That’s been the immediate effect that I have certainly seen."
But investors who have operated in the industry for a while and are savvy to the regulations around cannabis see an opportunity.
"To me, this move by Sessions is actually a good thing," Canopy Accelerator's Tapman said. "It keeps valuations down, gives me good deals, and eliminates relatively unfocused short-term investors."
Tapman reasons that instead of going to high-net worth individuals who know little about cannabis, startups that need funding will turn to industry insiders like him. And his group will put the companies through a more rigorous due-diligence process, which will in turn push valuations down.
Tapman does expect Sessions' move to hurt plant-touching businesses, like cultivators and dispensaries, and set federal cannabis reform back a number of years. But he anticipates that enough smart, hard-working people in the industry will survive until a new administration, or at least a new attorney general, takes over.
"The reality is, we're not going to see cannabis legalized under Trump's administration," Tapman said. "But the key to surviving is to do your research, be agile, and be thoughtful with how you conduct your business."
It's worth noting that repeal of the Cole Memo doesn't change cannabis's legal status at the federal level — it just adds another layer of complexity to an already high-risk industry. Institutional investors like major banks and asset managers in the US weren't investing in the cannabis industry much before, anyway, since it's always been federally illegal.
Morgan Paxhia, a founder and managing director at Poseidon Asset Management, a cannabis-focused investment firm, said Sessions' move just takes the industry landscape back to where it was prior to 2013, when the Cole Memo was written.
"We have been officially investing in the cannabis industry for over four years," Paxhia said. "In the first half of the first year, we were without the Cole Memo."
Andrew Kline, a former federal prosecutor who now heads the National Association of Cannabis Businesses, a self-regulatory organization for the industry, suggested that cannabis businesses clamp down on complying with state regulations.
"You have to be diligent, and you have to be willing and able to go above and beyond what state laws require," Kline said. Businesses hoping to avoiding prosecution should show regulators that they really care about adhering to both state and local regulations, he added.
Cannabis businesses that comply with state laws still likely won't get prosecuted — it's those that sell to minors or have some of their supply diverted to the black market that open themselves up to federal interference.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are fighting back
Lawmakers are vowing to fight Sessions' move in order to protect an industry that could provide thousands of jobs and billions in tax revenue in states where cannabis is legal. In California alone, the state is predicted to rake in $1.4 billion in cannabis-generated tax by 2021.
Sen. Gardner — who voted to confirm Sessions last year — has vowed to withhold Justice Department nominees until Sessions backs off of state-legal cannabis. Reps. Polis of Colorado, Rohrabacher of California, and Blumenauer of Oregon are urging both parties to support an amendment on the House's next budget bill that prohibits the Justice Department from spending money on enforcing federal law against medicinal cannabis.
The bipartisan group of lawmakers has public opinion on their side. Approximately 51% of Republicans and 64% of Americans overall support cannabis legalization, according to a recent Gallup poll.
"Ending the Cole Memo will simply mobilize those of us who support cannabis and support state's rights," Rohrabacher said. "Jeff [Sessions] is representing a mindset from the 1950's."
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Coutinho skips Liverpool trip as €160m transfer to Barcelona nears
No agreement has yet been reached between the clubs as the Reds try to change the Brazilian’s mind, but he wants an immediate move to Camp Nou
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Air strikes kill at least 17 civilians in Syria rebel enclave: monitor
Regime and Russian air strikes on a rebel-held enclave near Damascus killed at least 17 civilians on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The deadliest of the raids on the Eastern Ghouta region hit the Hammuriyeh district, leaving 12 civilians dead including two children, the British-based war monitor said.
Eastern Ghouta is the target of near-daily regime air raids.
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Franklin Sasere on target in Sunshine Stars’ pre-season triumph
The striker found the net as the Owena Whales continued their pre-season campaign with victory against Zakariyau Lawal football club
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Mourinho Replies Conte, Mocks Chelsea Manager With Match Fixing Scandal
Jose Mourinho took his escalating feud with Chelsea manager Antonio Conte to a new level on Friday night.
The Manchester United boss hit back during his post-match press conference after Conte suggested he was becoming ‘senile’ earlier in the day.
He should have been discussing how late goals from Jesse Lingard and Romelu Lukaku had guided his side into the FA Cup’s fourth round after a tough tie against Championship promotion-chasers Derby.
Instead when asked about Conte’s comments, he bit.
The Chelsea manager’s own barb had come because he thought Mourinho had accused him of acting like a clown on the touchline, and the United manager said: ‘Look, I don’t blame him (for the reaction), honestly I don’t blame him. I was speaking about myself, saying I don’t need to behave as a clown to show passion, that I control my emotions in a better way.
‘What never happened to me, and what will never happen to me, is to be suspended for match-fixing, that never happened to me and will never happen.’
Mourinho was reminded of Conte’s past after his match-fixing remarks. The Portuguese replied: ‘He did? Not me.’
Mourinho believes his remarks on touchline etiquette were taken out of context.
‘I don’t need the Chelsea manager to say that I made mistakes in the past,’ he said. ‘I will make them in the future. I know that I celebrated goals running 50 metres, that I celebrated goals sliding on my knees, I celebrated by jumping to the crowd.
‘I’m not free of that, especially if we score a winning goal in a specific moment, I’m not free to have an out-of-control reaction but what I was trying to say was I behaved bad a few times and in this moment I control myself much better.’
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Saudi Arabia Detains 11 Princes Over Protests
Saudi Arabia has detained 11 princes after they protested a royal palace in Riyadh against austerity measures that included suspending payment of their utility bills, according to reports in Saudi media on Saturday.
It would be recalled that Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, has introduced reforms that included cutting subsidies, value-added tax (VAT) and cutting perks to royal family members to try to cope with a drop in crude prices that has caused a budget deficit estimated at $52bn in 2018.
An online news portal says that the princes had gathered at the Qasr a-Hokm, a historic royal palace, demanding the cancellation of a royal decree that stopped state payment of water and electricity bills for royal family members.
They also demanded compensation for a death sentence issued against a relative, the website reported said.
“They were informed of the error of their demands, but they refused to leave Qasr al-Hokm,” the website said, quoting unidentified sources.
“A royal order was issued to the royal guards … to intervene and they were detained and put into al-Hayer prison in preparation to put them on trial.”
Saudi Arabia last year rounded up dozens of royal family members, current and former senior officials in a crackdown on corruption that has also strengthened the power of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS).
They were held at the five-star Ritz Hotel in the capital Riyadh while government officials negotiated financial settlements.
Saudi Arabia has aggressively changed its economy recently. On 1 January, the country changed the status of its national oil giant Aramco to a joint-stock company as part of a key step for an initial public offering of shares planned for later this year.
Last month, Saudi Arabia said its economy contracted for the first time in eight years due to austerity measures as it announced record spending to stimulate growth.
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406 eye patients benefit from Wamakko's eye care programme
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Donald Trump tweets extraordinary defence of his 'mental stability'
Donald Trump tweets extraordinary defence of his 'mental stability'
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Politics: 'A very stable genius': Trump defends mental stability in early morning tweetstorm
President Trump's comments came after author Michael Wolff said 100% of the people around the president question his intelligence and fitness for office.
- President Trump defended his intelligence and mental stability on Saturday morning, saying in a series of tweets that his "two greatest assets" have been "mental stability and being, like, really smart."
- He added that he believed he was "a very stable genius."
- Trump's tweets came on the heels of Michael Wolff's explosive new book about the Trump White House.
- Wolff said in an interview Friday that 100% of the people around Trump question his intelligence and fitness for office.
President Donald Trump took to Twitter Saturday morning to defend his intelligence, which he said was smeared by Democrats and the "fake news" mainstream media.
"Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence…" he tweeted.
"Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart," he continued. "Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star … to President of the United States (on my first try). I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!"
Trump's tweets came following the release of author Michael Wolff's explosive new book about the inner workings of the White House, "Fire & Fury: Inside the Trump White House." Wolff said the book was based on over 200 interviews with the people closest to Trump. Although some questioned the veracity of the book's content, Wolff said he had dozens of hours worth of interview tapes with top officials to back up his reporting.
In the book, former White House chief strategist and head of Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, is quoted eviscerating Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., his daughter Ivanka Trump, and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Bannon, according to the book, called Ivanka Trump "dumb as a brick" and unleashed on Kushner and Trump Jr. over their Russia-related activities.
And in one noteworthy exchange during an interview with "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, which may have prompted Trump's Saturday tweets, Wolff said that every single person around Trump, including senior aides and family memers, questioned his intelligence and fitness for office.
"Let me put a marker in the sand here: 100% of the people around him," Wolff said.
When Guthrie asked what else people around Trump said about him, Wolff said it was that he is "like a child."
"And what they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification," he said. "It's all about him."
Trump and his allies quickly hit back at Wolff and Bannon following the book's release.
In one of his most scathing statements as president, suggesting "Sloppy Steve" Bannon had "lost his mind" and was "only in it for himself."
"Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was," Trump said. "It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books."
He also called Wolff "a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book," adding that Wolff used Bannon, "who cried when he got fired and begged for his job."
"Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad!" Trump said.
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War-Torn Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis Like Apocalypse, Says UN Chief
The humanitarian disaster in war-torn Yemen could become the worst in the last 50 years unless something urgent is done to address the situation, the United Nations, UN, has said.
According to UN’s Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock, the Middle East nation’s situation become an Apocalypse if not tackled with the needed urgency.
“The situation in Yemen, today, right now, to the population of the country, looks like the apocalypse,” the UN’s undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said on Friday.
“The cholera outbreak is probably the worst the world has ever seen with a million suspected cases up to the end of 2017,” Lowcock stated.
Lowcock added that “a terrible new epidemic” of diphtheria, a bacterial disease which should be completely preventable by immunization, has already “affected up to 500 people with dozens and dozens of deaths” in the past few weeks.
“That is going to spread like wildfire,” Lowcock underlined, adding: “Unless the situation changes, we’re going to have the world’s worst humanitarian disaster for 50 years.”
It would be recalled that Saudi Arabia has declared war on Yemen since March 2015 in a bid to restore power to fugitive President Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 15,500 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.
Despite Riyadh’s claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.
The World Health Organisation has also reported that almost 500 cases of diphtheria are suspected in Yemen.
The cholera outbreak in Yemen which began in April, has also claimed over 2,200 lives and has infected about one million people, as the nation has been suffering from what the World Health Organization (WHO) describes as the “largest epidemic in the world” amid a non-stop bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia.
Also Riyadh’s deadly campaign prevented the patients from traveling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country.
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Messi-esque Salah is worth £200m, says Liverpool legend Rush
The Egyptian forward has starred since arriving at Anfield, sparking talk of a possible big-money move to Spain at some stage in the near future
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Strategy: Amazon is perpetuating a myth that's leading cities to scramble for HQ2 — but Seattle tells a different story
Amazon has been blamed for Seattle's astronomical hikes in real estate costs, traffic gridlock, and homelessness.
- Amazon has promised 50,000 jobs to the city that's home to its second North American headquarters.
- Critics say that hosting the company's headquarters isn't all it's cracked up to be.
- In Seattle, the home of Amazon's existing headquarters, the retailer has been blamed for astronomical hikes in real estate costs, traffic gridlock, and rising homelessness.
- Trulia data shows the median four-bedroom home in Seattle now costs $847,00, up from $756,000 last year and $510,000 five years ago.
More than 200 US cities are competing in a cutthroat bidding war for a chance to become the home of Amazon's second North American headquarters, dubbed HQ2.
It's easy to understand why: Amazon has promised a $5 billion investment and 50,000 jobs to the city with the winning bid.
But critics say Amazon's coveted jobs could come at a staggering cost to the winning bidder, and not just in the form of billions of dollars in tax breaks that cities are offering to lure the e-commerce giant.
In Seattle, the home of Amazon's existing headquarters, the retailer has been blamed for astronomical hikes in real estate costs, traffic gridlock, and rising homelessness, among other issues.
"There are a lot of people in Seattle who are at the losing end of the prosperity that Amazon brings," said Knute Berger, a journalist, historian, and Seattle native. "There has been a lot of displacement. Minority communities have largely been driven out of the city for less expensive suburbs, and competition for homes and rents has dramatically increased, contributing to the rising homeless population."
Seattle has led the nation in housing price increases for 13 consecutive months, with prices rising about twice as fast as the national average, according to the Seattle Times.
Trulia data shows the median four-bedroom home in Seattle now costs $847,00, up from $756,000 last year and $510,000 five years ago.
As housing prices rise, so has the city's homeless population.
Mary's Place, a Seattle nonprofit that operates several homeless shelters, said in September that it was on pace to fill 170,000 beds at overnight shelters in 2017. That's up from 2,300 beds in 2010, The Boston Globe reports.
Amazon gets blamed for Seattle's housing crisis because of the influx of well-paid workers it has brought to the city, many of whom are driving demand for the area's dwindling supply of homes.
"High demand and low inventory creates bidding wars and animosity among those who can't even afford a starter home in the city they grew up in," Kurt Schlosser wrote in September for GeekWire. "And the rent is too damn high, too. Workers who don't wear tech badges for a living are forced to look outside the city and thus contend with the traffic coming in and out of it, creating a vicious cycle and affordability crisis."
Seattle drivers spent an average of 55 hours stuck in traffic in 2016, according to the software and traffic-data company Inrix. That places Seattle among the 10 worst US cities for congestion.
"The traffic is miserable," Berger said. "The city and state are now spending a lot of money to try to make improvements to the city infrastructure."
Schlosser described Seattle as racing "against the clock to build a mass transit system worthy of servicing such a rapidly growing population."
"Other cities chasing Amazon for HQ2 had better be way ahead in that game," he wrote.
Restaurants are failing near Amazon's Seattle headquarters
The rise in moneyed residents in Seattle hasn't necessarily paid off for small businesses and restaurants in close proximity to Amazon's headquarters, either.
Several restaurants have gone out of business in the Seattle neighborhood of South Lake Union, where Amazon's headquarters is located, because diners didn't turn out as expected, Marketplace reports.
"The worst thing is having an empty restaurant and then trying to keep your staff motivated and energized," Josh Henderson, the owner of a recently closed restaurant called Vestal, told Marketplace. "It's a soul-sucking experience."
To be sure, there are myriad advantages to winning the bidding war for Amazon's new headquarters.
The retailer says its Seattle headquarters has created 53,000 jobs in the city in addition to pumping a staggering $38 billion into the local economy.
But cities and states should think carefully about rewarding Amazon with extravagant tax advantages and other perks, because there are so many ongoing costs associated with hosting such a giant and rapidly growing corporation, Berger said.
"Whatever town that takes them on will have to give them more and more to keep them happy," Berger said. "The chess move isn't just, 'let's get Amazon.' You have to think further down the road. What is Amazon going to want 10 years from now?"
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Udates on Delta LG polls: DSIEC adhoc staff killed
By Jimitota Onoyume, Festus Ahon and Perez Brisibe
Security beefed up at Ughelli over fear of mob attacks
The ongoing Delta State, Local Government election, took a worrisome dimension as one of the adhoc staff of the State Independent Electoral Commission, DSIEC was reportedly killed at Onitsha-Ugbo, Aniocha North Local Government Area of the State.
The vanguard gathered the man in his 30s was reportedly killed by suspected political thugs. Contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr Andrew Aniamaka said the yet unidentified man was not killed.
Saying that an autopsy would be carried out to ascertain the cause of death, he said; “he was not killed rather he slumped and died.”
Also election materials meant for Ethiope East local government has been allegedly taken back to the state office of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, DSIEC, in Asaba.
The Electoral Officer of the local government, Mr Saduwa Solomon, told party agents and leaders at Isiokolo, headquarters of the local government area that the materials had to be taken back because of fear that the atmosphere was not allegedly conducive for conduct of the exercise.
Meantime, leaders of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA , Dr Ovie Ughwanogho and the All Progressive Congress, APC, Alhaji Unagha Mumakai in the state said the parties were monitoring the movement of the election materials back to the DSIEC office, Asaba.
“We are monitoring the return of the election materials to make sure that no result is later announced for the local government area”, they said.
In Ugborodo, Warri south west local government area as at 2pm election materials had not arrived the area. “No DSIEC official has been seen here. We are waiting endlessly. “, a chieftain of APC, Mr Alex Eyengho said.
A detachment of policemen from the Ughelli Area Command have been drafted to flash points within and around Ughelli metropolis following the burning of the Ughelli DSIEC office.
A tour round the town witnessed the presence of stern looking mobile policemen to checkmate any form of attack on government facilities following the burning down of the DSIEC office.
The angry mob made up of youths in the numbers, had mobilised into the town in protest making bonfire in strategic locations.
Security was also beefed up at the Ughelli ‘A’ division which is located a few meters from the burnt DSIEC office.
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Diego Costa sent off after scoring on second Atletico Madrid La Liga debut
The 29-year-old received just the second red card of his league career barely more than an hour into his return to the Spanish capital
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1,050 Boko Haram Insurgents Surrender, Others Flee
The Nigerian Army on Saturday said 1,050 insurgents had surrendered to troops in Lake Chad and Monguno general area of operations, as it also warned that many of them were on the run.
The army urged abutting communities to watch out for the fleeing Boko Haram insurgents as their enclaves in Lake Chad region came under intense onslaught.
The Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu, made the disclosure in a statement in Maiduguri.
Nwachukwu disclosed that 250 fighters of the Al Barnawi-led faction of the insurgents had surrendered to Nigerian Army, sequel to artillery and aerial bombardments by troops of Operation Lafiya Dole of their enclaves in Lake Chad basin.
He added that 700 insurgents also surrendered to troops at Monguno in an ongoing clearance operation.
Nwachukwu explained that Mamman Nur, another factional leader of the insurgents sustained fatal injuries and one of his wives killed in the operation, while many of the insurgents who escaped, surrendered to Niger Defence Forces.
The Army Spokesman noted that some of the insurgents fleeing from the ongoing offensive were senior and junior commanders of the Al Barnawi faction.
“The insurgents are attempting to melt into communities in and around Kano, Geidam and Gashua axis unnoticed. One of such fleeing commanders is Bana Bafui.
“Members of the general public, particularly in Kano, Geidam, Gashua, Hadejia and northern part of Jigawa State are therefore enjoined to be vigilant, watch out for strange faces in their communities and report same to security agencies.”
Nwachukwu called on the insurgents to surrender, adding that the Federal Government had provided a window through the Operation SAFE CORRIDOR to encourage the insurgents’ voluntary surrender.
He revealed that about 300 insurgents were currently undergoing de-radicalisation process for possible integration into the society.
“We call on Boko Haram insurgents to abandon the futile struggle; take advantage of the Safe Corridor programme and surrender to troops in any location nearest to them.
“We guarantee their safety and incorporation into the programme for de-radicalisation and rehabilitation.”
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Livescore: Latest FA Cup 3rd round [Saturday] fixtures, results
The third round of the FA Cup began on Friday night, with Manchester United and Liverpool qualifying for the next round of the competition. United needed late goals from Jesse Lingard and the fit-again Romelu Lukaku to see off Derby County at Old Trafford, while Liverpool debutant, Virgil Van Dijk headed in the winner in […]
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Everton Ta Kusa Kammala Siyen Dan Wasan Gaba
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Man Utd target Dybala told he 'can't play centre-forward for a big club'
Massimiliano Allegri has questioned the Argentine’s ability to lead the line, but Giuseppe Marotta intends to keep him in Turin for “a long time”
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Badoo: Alleged cult sponsor petitions Lagos commissioner of police for declaring him wanted
Abayomi Alaka through his counsel has initiated a case against the IGP and Imohimi at a Federal High Court in Lagos.
Abayomi Alaka, the alleged sponsor of the Badoo cult has petitioned the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Edgal Imohimi who had declared him wanted in connection with killings in Ikorodu.
He made this submission on Friday, January 5, 2018, through his counsel Babatunde Ojehomon, who wrote "the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the National Assembly and others," Punch News reports.
According to the lawyer, the police had infringed against his client's rights by sealing his properties and declaring him wanted.
Imohimi has “an axe to grind with him (Alaka),” he told Punch while speaking from his chambers located in Ibadan, Oyo State.
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He added that his client has already initiated a case against Ibrahim Idris and Imohimi at a Federal High Court in Lagos.
“We affirm that originating processes in the matter have been served on the respondents since August 2017 and this case had come up for hearing once before a vacation judge and twice before Justice Hassan of the Federal High Court, Lagos Division.
“The respondents were not only absent on those occasions but have failed, neglected or refused to file any processes in response to our client’s case against them.
“It is shocking how the respondents have again come to the public declaring our client, who is an applicant before a superior court of record, wanted over the allegation of Badoo cult killings.
“Even though we are putting our papers together to seek a legal remedy against the unlawful sealing of our client’s property, we have resolved to exhaust all available administrative remedies in the light of the recent events that have concretised our suspicion that Imohimi has a personal axe to grind with our client,” the counsel said in a statement.
The status of the fight against Badoo
Police chief Edgal Imohimi recently led an assault team that succeeded in capturing a herbalist who prepares 'juju' for the Badoo cult.
While parading some suspects at the Lagos police headquarter located in Ikeja, the commander narrated how the cultists murder their victims in their homes.
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Addressing newsmen while parading the terrorists on Thursday, January 4, 2018, the police chief mentioned that their leader identified as Omotayo Abamoyegun sprays powder in the homes of the victims which ensures that they fall into a deep sleep before breaking their heads.
Their most recent outing which offered the police an opportunity to apprehend them however proved to be their last.
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Delta Council Poll: We Didn’t Impose Any Candidate, Says Gov. Okowa
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) did not impose any candidate on its members in the ongoing council poll in the state.
Senior Special Adviser to Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa on Security Matters, Mr Kelly Otuedon, said this in an interview with journalists.
Otuedon, who is the PDP Chairman in Uvwie Local Government Area, said the party had done a lot of grassroots campaign to guarantee the party’s victory at the poll.
“We did not impose any candidate on the people, they chose their candidates and are ready to defend their choice today at the poll.
“So far the exercise has been so peaceful,” he said.
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Fire as passenger jets collide at Toronto airport
Two jets collided on the ground at a Toronto airport on Friday, setting the tail of one aircraft alight and prompting passengers to evacuate the other via an emergency slide.
Both WestJet and Sunwing confirmed that their planes were involved in the collision at 18:19 local time (2319 GMT) at Toronto Pearson International, the second such incident at the airport in five months.
Several hours after the collision the airport said all WestJet passengers were safely at the terminal, adding that one of the airport’s fire and emergency service personnel was undergoing hospital treatment.
“At this time, airport operations have not been significantly affected by the incident but continue to be challenged by the extreme cold weather conditions,” the airport’s statement said.
The panicked shouts and cries of those aboard were audible on one Instagram video shot by a passenger inside the WestJet plane.
The clip showed flames erupting from the Sunwing aircraft, sending black smoke spewing into the frigid night air.
“Our plane was crashed into by another plane right after the pilot announced they were ‘low on staff,’” wrote the user who posted the video, under the handle stephen_belford.
WestJet said on Twitter that the Boeing 737-800 plane had 168 guests and six crew onboard, and had arrived in Toronto via Cancun.
Waiting to proceed to the gate, the aircraft “was struck by a Sunwing aircraft pushing back from the gate,” WestJet said.
“Due to the position of the aircraft on the laneway, WestJet guests required evacuation via emergency slide. Emergency crews were on hand and responded immediately,” the airline tweeted.
The company did not specify if the incident resulted in injuries but said “all 168 guests and six crew are accounted for.”
“We can confirm guests are safely in the terminal and they are in the process of clearing customs.”
In a statement posted on its social media pages Sunwing said “there were no Sunwing crew or passengers onboard at the time of the incident,” adding that its aircraft had been “under tow by our ground handling service provider” prior to the collision.
Toronto’s weather was clear but overnight the temperature plunged below -20 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit).
The Transportation Safety Board had arrived at the scene and launched an investigation.
The collision is the second such incident at Toronto Pearson in recent months.
In early August, a Canadian and a Polish passenger jet clipped wings on the ground at the airport, causing “serious” damage but no casualties.
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2019: APC Restates Commitment To Peaceful, Credible Elections In Ebonyi
The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday restated its commitment to peaceful and credible 2019 general elections in Ebonyi.
The state’s Chairman of the party, Mr Eze Nwachukwu, who gave the assurance while addressing journalists in Abakaliki, therefore, appealed to groups and individuals preaching violence and war ahead of the elections to have a rethink.
Nwachukwu insisted that APC would abide by extant laws, rules and regulations guiding peaceful conduct of elections in the country.
He said that the party had at a stakeholders meeting on Friday, reviewed its preparedness for the forthcoming general elections and seen the need to make its position known especially in view of unsavoury comments allegedly made by some politicians in the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The state governor, David Umahi, had said that he was ready for the political intrigues that would herald the battle for elective positions in the state ahead of the 2019 general elections.
He said this on Monday while addressing stakeholders of Afikpo North and Ezza South, who paid him a Christmas visit at his country home in Uburu.
In his remarks, he vowed to ensure the re-election of the state and federal lawmakers from Afikpo North and Ezza South Local Government Area of the state.
Umahi had said that there was no vacancy in the state House of Assembly and National Assembly positions in both councils, and that those aspiring for the positions should wait for 2023.
“I am a man of war and ready to war in ensuring that the present occupiers of the positions are re-elected in 2019.
“We all came together on the platform of divine mandate and would complete the mandates together.
“When we all finish our tenures, I will force the present occupiers to vacate the seats to ensure that other aspirants realise their ambitions,’’ Umahi said.
Nwachukwu described the governor’s threat as an indication of acceptance of defeat.
“Gov. Umahi, while addressing stakeholders of Afikpo North and Ezza South, who paid him a Christmas visit at his country home in Uburu, declared himself as a man of war and ready to fight for his re-election in 2019.
“For us in APC, such comments are un-dignifying and unwarranted especially coming from a man occupying the exalted office of Governor.
“Election is neither a war nor a do-or-die affair. It is a free contest that is only decided by the electorate through the ballot hence it is not an act or war.
“Our questions then are: who is fighting who and who is warring against, who since it must take two to fight or to get involved in a war,’’ Nwachukwu said.
“The Governor knows that he has been technically defeated and that is why he wants to threaten and intimidate.’’
Nwachukwu stated that as the largest opposition party in the state, APC believes that power resides with the people and that such power is exercised through their free franchise.
He said that the party would rather seek the votes of the people than preach war.
“For us in the opposition, ours is to mobilize the electorate, canvass for their votes and support and to urge them to actively participate in the electoral process through sustained sensitisation.
“We are letting residents know that we are ready and set to take over power not by hook or crook, but by the laid down legal procedure that enhances peaceful and credible elections.
“We in APC subscribe to the laws of the land and this includes those laws and guidelines regulating conduct of behaviour during elections because in Nigeria there are laws guiding actions and behaviour and our actions,” Nwachukwu added.
He, therefore, urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to be vigilant and to apply strict sanctions against any political party or candidate for the elections that violates the electoral law or INEC guidelines.
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Tevez Dumps Martin’s Shanghai Shenhua For Boca Juniors Return
Former Manchester United and Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez has dumped Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins’ Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua and has rejoined his first club in Argentina Boca Juniors.
He was once reportedly the highest paid player in the world, earning €750,000 with the Chinese club.
Tevez, who will turn 34 next month, met with Boca coach Guillermo Barros Schelotto and immediately began pre-season training at the Los Cardales complex.
The Argentine club announced the return of Tevez on Friday with a picture of him working out alongside his team-mates.
“Tevez has come home!” the club said. “Today (Friday) he joined up with Guillermo’s squad at Cardales and he is training with his team-mates.”
Boca however did not give details of his contract or disclose if the Chinese club had been paid a transfer fee.
The move marks Tevez’s third stint at the Buenos Aires club whom he first signed for in 2001 and again in 2015.
The 2004 Athens Olympic gold medal winner with Argentina won the 2017 Chinese FA Cup with Shanghai Shenhua with Martins scoring in both legs of the final against Shanghai SIPG.
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Wike Raises The Alarm Over Plot To Make Rivers Unsafe
Gov Nyesom Wike of Rivers said on Friday that there was an orchestrated plan to create the impression that Rivers was not safe through the promotion of targeted cult related killings.
Wike made the allegation when the Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazzau (Rtd) paid him a courtesy call in Port Harcourt.
The governor said that the state government was ready to partner with the Federal Government to tackle the security challenges in the state.
He stated that the security agencies in the state had knowledge of the cult kingpins terrorizing flashpoints in the state.
“The security agencies have the profiles of all cult kingpins in different parts of the state and they know their locations, there is no wisdom in the politicization of security.
‘’Insecurity can affect anybody, you can never know the next victim of insecurity,’’ the governor stated.
Wike called on the security agencies and the Federal Government to deploy personnel to cult flashpoints in the state to stop repeated attacks by cultists.
“In every system, the security agencies know the flashpoints, here we requested for the strengthening of security around these flashpoints, especially areas with high prevalence of cultists.
‘’I expect that security would be beefed up in these places, I ask this question, Is there an orchestrated plan to tag Rivers State unsafe?
“Is the situation above the security agencies, despite the information we have made available to them?” the governor asked.
He accused oil multinationals for the escalation of cultism in some communities, adding that the multinationals had encouraged cultism through the award of surveillance contracts to cultists.
Wike lamented that having been funded by multinationals, cultists were able to purchase sophisticated weapons with which they caused mayhem on communities and law-abiding citizens.
He disclosed that the State Government had made several requests to the Inspector-General of Police to deploy special squads to tackle cultism and kidnapping in Rivers.
The governor stated that the Inspector-General of Police had failed to deploy special squads to the state, despite several requests by the State government.
“The peculiar nature of Rivers State requires peculiar intervention, before now, I have been shouting that we need support to fight crime, I have made this complaint severally,” he said.
Wike berated politicians who had wanted to adopt cult-related killings to play politics by making false allegations against the state.
Earlier, the Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen. Danbazzau noted that he was in the State at the instance of President Muhammadu Buhari to assess the security situation.
The Minister on behalf of the President, condoled the government and the people of the State over the killings at Omoku.
“Rivers State is important to the country, particularly when it comes to the issue of the nation’s economy.
“It is very important that the Federal Government collaborates with the state to see how any security gap can be closed for adequate protection of lives and property, ” the Minister added.
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Borno Govt. Extends Curfew In Maiduguri For 7 Days
The Borno Government on Friday announced the extension of curfew in Maiduguri for another seven days from 8:00 p.m. to 6: 00 a.m.
The government on Monday rescheduled the curfew hitherto observed between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. to run between Jan. 2 and 6.
A statement by Dr Muhammad Bulama, the Commissioner for Information, said the curfew was extended to Jan. 12.
Bulama said that the curfew was based on “strong” advice of the Theatre Commander, Operation Lafiya Dole.
“The state government hereby announces the extension of the rescheduled curfew time earlier announced 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. every day by another one week.
“In other words, the prevailing curfew regime is to now last until Friday, 12th January, 2018.”
Bulama explained that the action was to avail the Armed Forces sufficient time to complete the on going special operation against Boko Haram terrorists and consolidate on the success so far recorded.
He noted that the state government deeply regretted the inconveniences and difficulties caused to the people by the action.
Bulama stressed that the decision was taken to safeguard the collective security and overall well being of the people.
“Government therefore urges all indigenes and residents of Borno State to see this temporary measure as part of necessary sacrifices we all have to make in the interest of peace, stability, development and progress of not only our dear state, but Nigeria as a whole.
“The understanding, support and cooperation of the general public is highly solicited in the observance of the curfew,” he said.
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Breaking: Thugs set Ughelli DSIEC office on fire
By Perez Brisibe
UGHELLI – POLITICAL thugs suspected to be members of a political party, have set the Ughelli office of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, DSIEC on fire.
The youths whom earlier faced a stiff challenge by the police, invaded the office in protest of the noninclusion of result sheets in the voting materials.
The police had earlier shot into the air to disperse the crowd amidst shots of teargas.
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