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"It was for a great cause," Clune said. "These are great young people out here, and it means a lot to me that they're supported, and anything I can do to help them, I'm happy to do, because I love being amongst them."
The event was put on by the Nicholls Foundation as a way to help various fraternities, sororities, clubs and departments raise more for their efforts than they can raise separately.
Sigma Gamma Rho sorority raised the most money of the organizations participating, and the Nicholls football team had the highest number of individuals donate.
Jeremy Becker, executive director of the Nicholls Foundation, said that the first such event last year raised just under $80,000 for the participating campus organizations, and that the goal was to surpass the $100,000 mark this year.
"With 111 different areas, it allows donors to pick and choose where they want their money to go," Becker said. "They know their money stays with that organization and the money has to stay on campus."
Kayla Freemon of Sigma Gamma Rho had the honor of applying the first pie to Clune's face, after the sorority raised more than any of the other organizations involved.
Freemon said that she hopes the experience will help grow her fledgling sorority, which has just three active members.
"It was pretty exciting to represent my sorority and be the first one to pie him," Freemon said. "We're using the money to better ourselves on campus and make ourselves better known on campus. We want to do better events and give back to the community."
To Elizabeth and Damion Farnum, a boy, Lewis Paxton Farnum, Jan. 7.
To Greta and Joe Zenner, a girl, Esme Gisele Zenner, Jan. 18.
To Tara Hawblitzel and Zachary Crim, a girl, Sadie Lynn Crim, Jan. 26.
To Bethany Brockwell and Lavonta Mitchell, a girl, Leilani Zoe Mitchell, Jan. 29.
To Elaina and Christopher Brown, a girl, Vivian Claire Brown, Jan. 31.
To Brittany and Gavin Ruehle, a girl, Lennon Rose Ruehle, Jan. 5.
There was a big question mark on how the markets would react two days after the failed July 15 coup attempt. On July 18, the main index of Borsa Istanbul plunged at opening but economic activity and banking system operations continued uninterrupted the remainder of the week.
The economy soon recovered without any serious harm as the government, institutions and private sector collectively started to implement measures one by one.
In the third quarter of 2016 that witnessed the coup attempt, the economy contracted 1.8 percent but growth picked up and recorded high expansion rates afterwards. In the whole of 2016, the Turkish economy grew by 3.2 percent and it expanded at 7.4 percent in 2017. With a growth of 7.4 percent in the first quarter of 2...
The U.S. Dollar/Turkish Lira rate initially rose above 3 per dollar. However, after then-Deputy PM Mehmet Şimşek held a teleconference with investors in London that helped to ease concerns the rate declined.
The Turkish economy was resilient to the possible adverse effects of the coup attempt mainly because of the reforms and measures undertaken in the banking system over the years.
The Credit Guarantee Fund (CFG) was restructured and provided much-needed lifeline to companies that were having financing problems. All NGOs took a common decision and they prevented a panicky environment and made sure that the economy operates smoothly and they did not allow mutual trust go awry.
Since last year 467,776 companies have taken out 255 billion Turkish liras ($52.6 billion) with 227.3 billion liras of guarantee under the CGF. Some 75 percent of that total amount was extended to small and medium-sized companies. 24,335 exporters benefited from some 40 billion liras worth of guarantees.
Standard & Poor’s (S&P), Moody’s and Fitch slashed Turkey’s credit rating in the wake of the coup attempt and this was the largest blow. The rather limited impact of the rate cuts were felt in the Turkish markets but the real sector was less affected.
In the wake of the coup attempt, the Fetullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ)-affiliated companies were seized. Under the Saving Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) there are 981 companies with assets ranging between $1.5 billion to 100,000 Turkish liras. As of 2017, revenues of those companies, whose combined equity stands...
The way people reacted to the coup attempt was also significant. In the face of the volatility in the currency rates, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on people to sell the foreign currencies they hold. Following the president’s call, people sold $20 billion worth of foreign currencies in the space of three months...
The Istanbul Chamber of Industry (İSO) chair Erdal Bahçıvan noted that the private industry sector’s dynamic and crisis-resilient structure as well as the decisions the government swiftly executed played an important role in the strong economic growth that followed the contraction in the third quarter of 2016.
“We need to underline the “Lifeline Credit” extended to the SMEs and supported by the ISO, Special Consumption Tax reductions for consumers, incentives and a number of measures designed to support investments and consumption,” Bahçıvan said.
The government supported both production and employment through a number of incentives packages it announced in the wake of the coup attempt. It mobilized resources to create jobs and the state provided various incentives to the companies that created new jobs. The tax reductions introduced in several industries helped...
A beauty salon owner charged in an alleged murder-for-hire plot that targeted a competitor in the skin-care business pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday.
Dawn Melody DaLuise, 55, of North Hollywood was charged with one count of solicitation of murder. She appeared in the Airport Courthouse.
She allegedly tried to hire someone to kill a rival aesthetician who opened a beauty salon in the same complex as hers, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
DaLuise, who owns the Skin Refinery in West Hollywood, was facing nine years in prison if convicted, the DA’s Office stated.
On her website, DaLuise lists actresses Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alicia Silverstone and Christina Ricci among her clientele.
DaLuise was being held on $1 million bail.
Her next court appearance was scheduled for April 17, according to the DA’s office.
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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday came down heavily on cow vigilantes, saying self-proclaimed volunteers are creating an atmosphere of fear by taking the law into their hands.
The NHRC said the state has the responsibility to remain vigilant to prevent such activities and the offenders should be dealt with strictly. The NHRC’s remarks came as it sought a report from Rajasthan over the murder of a man by suspected cow vigilantes in Alwar and asked the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to explain...
“The commission has observed that the contents of the media reports are painful. This is a serious issue of violation of human rights of the victims. Self-proclaimed volunteers creating an atmosphere of fear in society by taking the law into their hands are required to be dealt with strictly as per law,” it said.
The NHRC said the incident was not the first of its kind. In a similar incident in Gujarat, four Dalit boys, possessing beef, were severely beaten up in July 2016. The commission said it has issued a notice to the chief secretary of Rajasthan asking for a detailed report in the matter.
“A notice has also been issued to the Union home secretary, calling for a response as to what steps have been taken or proposed to be taken by the Centre to deal with such incidents in the country. The response is expected within four weeks,” an NHRC spokesperson said.
The commission said a group of “cow vigilantes” attacked some people on the pretext that they were cattle smugglers, though they were dairy farmers carrying cows legally purchased under a receipt and stamp of the Jaipur Municipal Corporation. The assault resulted in the death of a person. However, the Rajasthan Police ...
“Reportedly, the family members of the deceased, a dairy farmer, stated that the victims showed the attackers the receipt of legally purchased cows but they continued to thrash them. They snatched their wallets and cash, about Rs 1 lakh, as well as mobile phones,” the NHRC said.
On Monday morning, wide receiver Santana Moss, who spent 14 seasons in the NFL—10 of them with the Washington Redskins—went on D.C. radio station 106.7 The Fan to speak on a bit of drama that allegedly went down when Robert Griffin III was in town. (As you probably remember, there was no shortage of drama when RG3 was ...
Moss, who was teammates with Griffin for three years, told the station that the ex-QB and Offensive Rookie of the Year celebrated the firing of coach Mike Shanahan, as well as the firing of his son, offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, only to be treated worse under new coach Jay Gruden.
"You can’t do that," Moss said of the dysfunction at the time. "One thing I’ll just share with you: God don’t like ugly. So the little credit that he did take for saying that, ‘Hey, they didn’t like what I was doing,’ or ‘They benched me and not allowing me to play,’ that’s what happens. So 2014 comes, and Jay Gruden c...
"And he rips RG every chance he gets," Moss continued. "Like, every meeting. And we’re sitting there looking like, ‘Yeah. You know what? You were just so happy that Mike and Kyle and them is gone, but now you’re getting your behind ripped every day, because you’re not playing the kind of football that we need to play f...
Showing up early, leaving late, putting in the extra hours, staying after practice & getting extra work in. We won the division that year.
Next year coach wants out, says he wants out, says he never wanted me as his QB & I GET BLAMED? C'mon man. I have been the good soldier.
Some so desperately want me to fit this negative narrative that has been pushed about me. But I don't fit it. Never have. Never will.
Man, have things changed since that rookie year of his.
Thousands of people blocked well-known landmarks in London, bringing widespread disruption to the UK capital in a "climate rebellion", that organisers said could last several days.
On Monday, parents and their children joined scientists, teachers, long-term environmentalists and other protesters to occupy major junctions and demand urgent action over the escalating ecological crisis, reports the Guardian.
The protests are part of a global campaign organised by the British climate group Extinction Rebellion, with demonstrations planned in 80 cities across 33 countries in the coming days.
The group is calling on the UK government to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2025 and establish a citizens' assembly to devise an emergency plan of action to tackle climate breakdown and biodiversity loss.
Five London landmarks - Waterloo Bridge, Marble Arch, Parliament Square, Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus - had been blocked by thousands of protesters.
By Monday night, police moved in and began to arrest protesters still blocking the Waterloo Bridge. By midnight there had been around 50 arrests.
Extinction Rebellion, in a letter to May also on Monday, outlined their demands and asked for talks.
"Make no mistake, people are already dying... In the majority world, indigenous communities are now on the brink of extinction. This crisis is only going to get worse... Prime Minister, you cannot ignore this crisis any longer. We must act now."
Organisers are hoping that the rebellion will last for several days and said its success depends on the number of people willing to occupy the sites in the days and nights ahead.
The events in London were the biggest demonstrations but there were smaller protests in other cities around the world.
Shadow assistant treasurer Andrew Leigh speaks with AM's Sabra Lane in the wake of Bill Shorten's budget reply speech.
He says Labor is concentrating its budget focus on middle-income Australians, who he says have seen "sluggish wages growth" for 10 years, and says that Australia would be a "fairer country" under a Labor government.
SABRA LANE: The shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, was unavailable to talk with you his morning.
So we're joined by the shadow assistant treasurer, Andrew Leigh, in our Canberra studio.
SABRA LANE: Labor is promising to double the cash handouts to middle- and low-income families, but not higher income families.
Does Labor loathe aspirational working Australians?
ANDREW LEIGH: Not in the least, Sabra. We are just prioritising middle Australia, people who have seen sluggish wages growth over the course of the last decade.
We've seen wages rising much more rapidly at the top than at the bottom. We've got a time now where inequality in Australia is at a 75-year high.
The fair go is under threat and Labor is prioritising looking after middle Australia with a tax cut that, as you say, is better, bigger and fairer.
SABRA LANE: But there is nothing for those with $120,000: earning that kind of money a year. Why are they missing out?
ANDREW LEIGH: There is more opportunities for their kids to go to university. There is more opportunities for them to get those life-saving MRI scans.
Under Labor, we'll invest in the roads that they use and we'll ensure they've got a high-quality National Broadband Network.
Australia will be a fairer country under Labor, but we'll also be a more productive nation.
I know, as somebody who is the top couple of per cent of the income distribution, that the benefits for all Australians flow right through.
I am very fortunate where I am in the Australian population. I believe I can afford to pay a little bit more tax in order to get those services we need, in order to make sure we have great teachers in every school.
SABRA LANE: So your message to those earning $120,000 is: buck up?
ANDREW LEIGH: Those earning a couple of hundred thousand dollars would be paying a marginal tax rate that is the same that Tony Abbott put in place, when our debt was lower than it is now.
Don't forget, net debt has doubled under the Coalition.
SABRA LANE: We'll get to that in a minute.
ANDREW LEIGH: Well, the only people who have gotten a tax cut under the Liberals have been those at the very top.
SABRA LANE: This plan will cost $19.2 billion over the four-year forward cycle. How much will it cost over 10?
SABRA LANE: So you don't have those numbers just yet?
ANDREW LEIGH: Over the course of the four-year forwards, the cost is $5.7 billion and obviously we'll release those 10-year costings.
But you'd understand, Sabra: this is quite an unusual situation, as the budget reply comes down a mere two days after the budget.
SABRA LANE: How much does it leave in your election war chest?
ANDREW LEIGH: We will have the opportunities to make further promises but we'll do those in a fiscally responsible way; and that's because we've made these tough decisions around negative gearing, trusts, closing multinational tax loopholes.
We're not giving $80 billion to the big end of town. We're not giving $17 billion to the banks.
SABRA LANE: Mr Shorten says that debt will be paid off faster. When will the debt be paid off under Labor?
SABRA LANE: Yeah, just to that point: so when, then? By asserting that you'll pay it off faster, you need to give voters an idea of when you'll do it?
ANDREW LEIGH: Obviously these very long-term projections depend on forecasts going well outside the medium term, but what you've got under Labor is a set of decisions that build over time.
And so our negative gearing decisions, our family trust decisions, our multinational tax decisions: they increase revenue to the budget. They allow us to pay down debt faster.
But conversely, the Coalition's decisions around company taxes, around their regressive tax plan: they cost the budget more over time.
So the relative position of the two parties widens substantially, as you go further out.
SABRA LANE: Mr Shorten has been very critical of the Government's plan to get rid of the 37 per cent tax bracket but he hasn't explicitly ruled it out.
What's Labor's position on this?
ANDREW LEIGH: We need to see the costings. We haven't seen from the Government the breakdown of their step one, step two, step three tax changes.
We've asked in Question Time. They've been very cagey about it.
You wouldn't expect us, Sabra, to make a decision on a plan whose numbers haven't even been broken out for us by the Government.
SABRA LANE: But still, that's an asterisk. Labor could still pass this package.
By hinting last night that you won't see other taxpayers held hostage, Labor could still let this pass through Parliament?

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