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Eight people died after fans surged toward the stage during the opening night of Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival in Houston, triggering a panic-induced stampede that left hundreds more injured.
An estimated 50,000 people turned out for the Houston-born rapper's weekend event on Friday to see Scott perform at NRG Park, as well as other acts set to appear during the two-day fest including SZA, Bad Bunny, Master P, Roddy Rich, Lil Baby and Earth, Wind & Fire.
One 14-year-old, one 16-year-old, two 21-year-olds, two 23-year-olds and one 27-year-old died, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said Saturday afternoon. Investigators were still working to determine the age of the eighth person.
The chaos unfolded around 9 p.m., not long after Scott took the stage with surprise guest Drake, according to Houston Fire Chief Sam Peña.
"The crowd began to compress toward the front of the stage, and that caused some panic and started causing some injuries," he told reporters during a late-night news conference Friday.
"People began to fall out and become unconscious, and that created additional panic."
In addition to the eight people killed, 17 others were hospitalized, according to Turner. Four people were released by Saturday afternoon, but 13 people remained hospitalized.
Peña added that it's still unclear what sparked the incident, but that it was enough to overwhelm security and medical staff at the sold-out event.
Police Chief Tony Finner said more than 500 Houston Police Department officers were on the scene Friday night and that concert-planner LiveNation had hired more than 750 private security officers.
"It seems like it happened just over the course of a few minutes. Suddenly we had people on the ground experiencing some type of cardiac arrest or some type of medical episode," said Houston Police Executive Assistant Chief Larry Satterwhite, who was near the front of the concert when the situation unfolded.
In a later news conference, Finner added that there were "a lot of rumors going around," including "people injecting people with drugs."
Finner said one private security officer felt a prick in his neck before passing out. Emergency responders administered Narcan, which is used to stop narcotics overdoses, and the officer woke up, according to Finner.
Turner called for a detailed briefing from all stakeholders, including Live Nation and NRG Park, to find out how the festival "got out of control."
Investigators said 911 calls first went out at 9:30 p.m. and the concert was stopped by 10:10 p.m. However, the crowd remained after the music ended as emergency personnel attempted to clear the venue.
More than 300 people were treated at a field hospital set up near the festival.
The patients included a 10-year-old child, who was in critical condition Saturday morning, CNN reported. Authorities did not confirm the ages of the people who remained hospitalized in the afternoon.
"I'm absolutely devastated by what took place last night. My prayers go out to the families and all those impacted by what happened at Astroworld Festival," said Scott, who also promised to cooperate with an investigation into the matter, and thanked the Houston police and fire departments for their response.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott described the deadly crush as "terrifying" and "tragic" in a statement on Saturday, while offering his condolences to those who were impacted.
"Thank you to the first responders and good Samaritans who were on site and immediately tended to those who were injured in the crowd," he said.
"The state of Texas is ready assist in the response, and I have directed the Texas Department of Public Safety to make state resources available to support the investigation."
Concert-goer Alleighya Odom, who has attended the annual festival since its start in 2018, said the dense crowd suddenly felt like "this force on my back, a continuous force."
"I started looking around and there's people on the ground, there's people looking at me like scared, eyes wild, like 'please help me,' " she told NBC News.
"There's people behind me crying because they're being stepped on."
Odom was ultimately able to escape the crush. She said she moved to a less-crowded area because she had a broken ankle and was worried about exacerbating the injury.
Clips shared on social media show Scott, 29, performing while emergency vehicles cut through the crowd. The chart-topping rapper can also be seen stopping the show on several occasions to request assistance for fans, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Back in May 2017, Scott, whose real name is Jacques Webster, was arrested after a concert in Arkansas because he "encouraged people to rush the stage," police said at the time. He was charged with inciting a riot, disorderly conduct and endangering the welfare of a minor, though the misdemeanor charges were later dismissed.
The Grammy-nominated rapper pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with incident a few months later. A 2019 crowd rush at the Astroworld festival led to three people being hospitalized.
Scott has a 3-year-old daughter with Kylie Jenner, who is pregnant with the pair's second child.
He launched Astroworld in 2018, the same year his hit "Sicko Mode" reached no. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100. Officials said that Saturday's lineup has been canceled due to the deadly crush.
"Our hearts are with the Astroworld Festival Family tonight — especially those we lost and their loved ones," the event organizers wrote in a statement.
Event organizers also asked that anyone with information on how the tragedy came about reach out to the Houston Police Department.
©2021 New York Daily News.
Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.


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IMAIL-Intelligent e-services for eGovernment
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Coordinator | Stockholms universitet - Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap |
Funding from Vinnova | SEK 4 646 065 |
Project duration | October 2008 - June 2011 |
Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
IMAIL-Intelligent e-services for eGovernment
The project vision is to design and develop eGovernment services based on human language technology tools that facilitate efficient communication between government agencies and citizens and companies, which will lead to a transformed and improved government. The overall goal of the demonstrator is to show how further development of today´s tools and technologies can improve the communication between large organizations and people. The demonstrator will run on Försäkringskassan (Swedish Social Insurance Agency) and help to automate the communication between these organizations and the people by processing text-based inquiries, primarily e-mail based queries.
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Our tools and technologies will: 1. automate answering of a large part of the incoming e-mail flow, 2. improve right-on-time answers to inquiries asked through electronic devices. 3. change the workload for the administrators at Försäkringskassan and use their skills in a better way.
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The university partners will carry out a number of meetings and workshops with Försäkringskassan, to find out the need but also to model the requirements on the system and also to obtain data. From this information will the university partners construct the demonstrator.


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Background Epidemiological data on myeloid malignancies are very rare in the literature due to a lack of registration by cancer registries until 2000. The Registry of Hematologic Malignancies of the Côte d'Or Department in France has, however, steadfastly registered data on cases occurring in the Department since 1980, resulting, to date, in a database of over 5,000 cases classified according to the ICD-O-3 classification, following the most recent World Health Organization classification criteria.Design and Methods Twenty-five years of data on myeloid malignancies, including acute myeloid leukemia, myeloproliferative neoplasms, myelodysplastic syndromes and myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative syndromes were analyzed. World population standardized incidence rates were calculated as were as observed and relative survival.Results Incidence rates per 100,000 inhabitants/year were 2.5 for acute myeloid leukemia, 1.3 for myelodysplastic syndromes, 3.2 for myeloproliferative neoplasms and 0.6 for myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative syndromes. It was found that the incidence rate of myelodysplastic syndromes increased significantly over the period. The median overall survival is 8.9 months for patients with acute myeloid leukemia, 33.8 months for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes, 91.7 months for those with myeloproliferative neoplasms and 26.6 months for patients with myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative syndromes. Observed and relative 20-year survival rates are, respectively, 12% and 13% in acute myeloid leukemia, 2% and 6% in myelodysplastic syndromes and 20% and 34% in myeloproliferative neoplasms.Conclusions These population-based data on myeloid malignancies are the first data collected over such a long period and provide interesting information for clinicians and public health authorities, particularly given the paucity of other long-term, population-based data from cancer registries.Introduction
Around 200 general cancer registries, currently active in the world, are used to collect new cases of hematologic malignancies according to the International Classification of Diseases - Oncology (ICD-O) criteria. Nevertheless, knowledge on these diseases is relatively recent, and is evolving quickly. Classifications have, therefore, been regularly modified, not always with unanimous acceptance. This has created difficulties for epidemiologists wishing to register data on different entities, and hematologic malignancies have usually been analyzed as broad categories such as "myeloid leukemia" or "unspecified leukemia" mixing both acute leukemia and other myeloid malignancies.1 Furthermore, because in the ICD-O-2 version, used until 1999, polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, and all myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) were not considered to be malignant, no data were recorded about these disorders in general cancer registries. As the ICD-O-3 version was developed, these diseases were recognized to be malignant and data for the 1998–2002 period, published in CIVC IX, distinguished myeloid leukemia, myeloproliferative disorders, now called myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), and MDS.2 The World Health Organization (WHO) classification of hematologic malignancies published in 2001 incorporated clinical, biological, pathological and prognostic aspects of the diseases and has been adopted worldwide.3 Furthermore, it was drawn up to show correspondence with the ICD-O-3 version, thus enabling the quality of data recorded about these diseases to be improved.
One of the major purposes of a specialized registry is to collect as detailed information as possible and to provide epidemiological data on well-defined subtypes of diseases. In hematology, they are very few such registries. The first specialized registry of hematologic malignancies in the world was established in 1980 in the Côte d'Or area, in the French region of Burgundy.4 The registration of cases has been uninterrupted since then, and thus over 25 years of epidemiological data concerning a population of around 500,000 inhabitants, which has been relatively stable over time, have been collected. Since the beginning, all subtypes of hematologic malignancies have been registered and classification modifications were implemented for each case. This allows the registry to provide detailed and accurate information on the incidence and survival of subjects with the major hematologic malignancies over an extended period of time.
Design and Methods
Population and cases
The Côte d'Or Department is a French administrative area of the Burgundy Region. The total population was 467,998 inhabitants in 1980 and 512,272 inhabitants in 2004 (+9.5%). All patients residing in the Department for more than 6 months in whom a new myeloid hematologic malignancy was diagnosed between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 2004 were registered after validation by a hematologist. In total, 5,086 cases were registered during this period. The ICD-O-3 version codes have been used since 2001. The various entities of MPN and MDS have consistently been registered since 1980. The ICD-O-2 codes for all cases diagnosed before 2001 were converted into their corresponding ICD-O-3 codes. Refractory anemia with an excess of blasts in transformation was reclassified as acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with multilineage dysplasia (9895/3).3 Therapy-related MDS (9987/3) and MDS/MPN were included in the therapy-related myeloid malignancies (9920/3) subgroup.5 Acute leukemias of ambiguous lineage were clustered within AML not otherwise specified (nos). Chronic myeloid leukemia, nos (CML) (9863/3) and CML, BCR-ABL-positive (9865/3) cases were clustered. Cases of acute leukemia arising after a MPN or MDS were excluded as they were not incident cases.
Items including administrative data, clinical and biological imaging at diagnosis and follow-up were registered. Registration rules of the International Association of Cancer Registries were followed. A dedicated computerized database approved by the French "Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés" was used. The quality of the registry has been checked and validated through regular auditing by INSERM, the French Institute of Health Care Surveillance, the National Committee of Registries and the French National Cancer Institute, since 1989.
Age- and sex-specific incidence rate calculations were performed using dataset estimates of the Côte d'Or population, supplied by the French National Institute of Statistics (INSEE). Rates were age-adjusted according to the world standard population as a standardization process. Incidence rates were calculated for each entity, per year and by 5-year periods of time. The date of diagnosis and vital status on 12/31/2008 were used to calculate observed survival by the Kaplan-Meier method. Relative survival was defined as the ratio of the observed survival to the expected survival. Survival data were analyzed by entity and by group of diseases using Stata 9 software. Comparisons between groups were performed using the log-rank test and two-sided P values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant.
Myeloid malignancies accounted for 30.5% (1549/5086) of all hematologic malignancies diagnosed in the Côte d'Or Department between 1980 and 2004. Of these myeloid malignancies, 30% (468/1549) were AML, 38% were (584/1549) MPN, 22% (345/1549) were MDS and 9.8% (152/1549) were MDS/MPN.
Analysis of the four major AML WHO categories showed that 48% were 'not otherwise categorized' (noc) while 25% were AML with multilineage dysplasia (Table 1). Within AML with recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities, the most frequent entity was AML with t(15;17) and within AML-noc, the majority of cases were AML with maturation and AML involving the monocytic lineage. The world standard population incidence rate of AML was not significantly different according to gender, being 2.8/100,000 inhabitants/year in men and 2.2/100,000 inhabitants/year in women although the sex ratio was biased at 1.3 (P<0.001). A reverse sex ratio was observed in therapy-related myeloid malignancies (0.7, P=0.02) and in AML with recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities (0.95), particularly in AML with t(15;17) (0.7). The median age of AML patients was 69.7 years while their mean age was 62 years (range, 0.2–98 years), being significantly lower in AML with recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities (44 years, P<0.001). The incidence of AML increased with age in all AML subgroups, particularly after the 55–59 years old age range. The incidence of overall AML was relatively stable over time, being 2.5/100 000 inhabitants/year in the period from 1980–1984 and 2.35/100,000 inhabitants/year 20 years later in the period from 2000–2004. The mean annual rate of variation was positive in men while it was negative in women (P=ns) (Online Supplementary Table S1). This trend was the same for all four subgroups of AML.
Following the introduction of the WHO classification, MDS became less frequent than MPN (1.35/100,000 inhabitants/year versus 3.2/100,000 inhabitants/year). The most frequent entity was refractory anemia with blasts, with an incidence rate of 0.55/100,000 inhabitants/year, followed by refractory anemia with ring sideroblasts with an incidence rate of 0.4/100,000 inhabitants/year. The male predominance was statistically significant for all entities except the 5q- syndrome which was more frequent in women (Table 2). MDS began to appear in people in their forties and the incidence rate increased markedly in subgroups older than 65–69 years, reaching 54/100,000 inhabitants/year for people older than 84. The incidence of MDS increased significantly throughout the period with a 2.4% mean annual increment rate (P<0.01) significantly partitioned as 2% in men (P<0.01) and 2.9% in women (P<0.01) (Online Supplementary Table S1).
Within MPN, essential thrombocythemia was the most frequent entity with an incidence rate 1.2/100,000 inhabitants/year, followed by CML (0.9/100,000 inhabitants/year) and polycythemia vera (0.6/100,000 inhabitants/year) (Table 2). Essential thrombocythemia was also characterized by a reversed sex ratio (0.9), contrasting with other MPN in which the male predominance was marked. This gender-related difference was statistically significant for CML and chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis. The mean age of occurrence of CML was approximately 10 years lower than that for other MPN. With regard to age, incidence rates of MPN increased from 25–29 years onwards, although a slight decrease was observed after 80 years old. An increase in incidence throughout the period studied was noted in women with an annual rate of 2.3% per year (P<0.001), while there was a slight decrease in men (Online Supplementary Table S1).
By far the most common MDS/MPN was chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (96% of the cases). The incidence rate of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia was 0.52/100,000 inhabitants/year with a markedly significant predominance in males. The mean age at diagnosis was 78.5 years old and was higher in women than in men (Table 2). An increasing incidence rate was found in both sexes throughout the observation period, although this increase was not statistically significant.
In this large cohort, the median observed survival was 91.7 months for patients with MPN, 33.8 months for those with MDS, 26.6 months for patients with MDS/MPN and 8.9 months for those with AML (Online Supplementary Table S2). There were, however, considerable differences between subgroups and entities.
Within patients with AML, the significantly best median observed survival was in those with AML with recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities (126 months). For all entities, relative survival was quite similar to observed survival (Table 3). Analyzed according to subgroups, the best 20-year relative survival was observed in patients with AML with recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities (Figure 1) especially those with t(15;17) (63%). With regards to gender, there was no difference in AML, but the relative survival of patients with AML with recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities was better in men than in women (20-year relative survival: 64% in men and 45% in women; P=ns). Analysis by age showed that the 15-year relative survival was 32% in patients younger than 63 years old (median age) but only 1% in patients over 63 years old (P<0.001). Over the 25 years of data registration analyzed, relative survival increased significantly in AML but surprisingly a decrease was observed in the 2000–2004 period (Figure 2).
Among patients with MDS, the median observed survival of those with refractory anemia with ring sideroblasts was 54.8 months whereas that of patients with refractory anemia was 30 months. In MDS, there was a slight difference with a 10-year relative survival of 19%, a 15-year relative survival of 10% and a 20-year relative survival of 6% compared with observed survival rates of 11%, 6% and 2%, respectively. With regard to gender, the 20-year relative survival of patients with MDS was significantly better in women (11%) than in men (3%) (P<0.008). This held true for cases of refractory anemia (33% versus 4%) and refractory anemia with ring sideroblasts (15-year relative survival: 20% versus 1%). No increase of relative survival was observed along the registration period (Figure 3).
Among MPN, the median observed survival of patients with polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia was 141 months and 129 months, respectively. In MPN, the relative survival was 15% higher than the observed survival with relative survival rates of 60% at 10 years, 46% at 15 years and 34% at 20 years. In MPN, the 20-year relative survival was better for women (39%) than for men (30%) (P<0.001), this being true only for CML (25% versus 11%). The 20-year relative survival decreased significantly with age (41% before 64 years old versus 11% after 64 years old, P<0.008). An increase of relative survival was observed in MPN across all 5-year periods, with this being particularly marked in patients with CML (Online Supplementary Figure S1). The survival rate of patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia was quite low with a 15-year observed survival rate of 0.5% and a relative survival of 1% (Table 3). No difference was found according to gender and relative survival did not change across the 25-year period studied.
Limited data are available on the epidemiological characteristics of hematologic disorders of the myeloid lineage. The registry we report upon here is the oldest of its kind in the world. It allows us to provide epidemiological data for one of the longest registration periods reported so far in hematology (1980–2004).
The incidence rate of AML observed was similar to the rates reported in South-East England and Sardinia.6,7 Differences from American Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) data could be due to the reference population used for the standardization process: we used the world population while SEER used the US population.8 A higher incidence of AML cases recently reported in Sweden was due to the inclusion in their series of secondary cases occurring after previous MDS or other hematologic malignancies.9 As such cases are not incident AML cases, they were not included in our analyses. The higher incidence of AML in men is widely shared, but surprisingly the rate in our women was higher than that in other countries.2,6,7 The proportion of AML with recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities in our series was slightly lower (11.9%) than in larger series from Germany or England, probably because karyotypic information was not always available for older cases. Nevertheless our data are similar to those from Denmark.9–11 In all of the above series, except that from Germany, the most frequent disease was AML with t(15;17), partially because of cases secondary to mitoxantrone treatment of breast cancer or linked to the body-mass index increase in western populations.12,13 Since 1980, we have observed a non-significant trend towards an increase in the incidence of AML in men.7,14,15
There are three potential reasons why the incidence rates of MDS from the USA and the South Thames area (UK) are higher than those in the Côte d'Or.6,16,17 First, we used positive criteria, such as karyotypic abnormality, abnormal progenitor in vitro culture or evolution to a more aggressive entity,18 to register cases of refractory anemia in the database in order to avoid over-inclusion of false cases. Secondly, the changes in classification led to a partition of around 30% of cases (refractory anemia with excess of blast in transformation became included in AML, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia as MDS/MPN diseases). In our series, this partition was applied to cases since 1980 which is frequently not the case in other series.6 The third possible explanation was the reference population used for the standardization process as mentioned for AML. A marked increase in incidence was found despite temporal variations,19 probably because of population aging and a higher number of diagnostic procedures now performed for MDS.
MPN appears to be the most prominent group of myeloid diseases.6,17 The incidence rate of polycythemia vera varies from 1.97/100,00 inhabitants/year in the Göteborg area, 1.1/100,00 inhabitants/year in the SEER population, 0.74/100,00 inhabitants/year in the South Thames area, to 0.61/100,00 inhabitants/year in our region. By contrast, the incidence of essential thrombocythemia is higher in the Côte d'Or, England and Sweden (incidence rates per 100,00 inhabitants/year: 1.2, 1.1 and 1.55, respectively) than in the USA (0.5/100,00 inhabitants/year) and Denmark (0.6/100,00 inhabitants/year).20 Detection of the JAK2 mutation and new diagnostic criteria from the WHO will probably cause changes in these rates.5,21 A significant increase in incidence was observed in women in our series, confirming results of the Copenhagen district series, but contrasting with those from Göteborg for the period from 1983–1999.20,22 The mean age at diagnosis in our series was close to that in both the Swedish and Danish populations but approximately 5 to 10 years younger than in patients from the South Thames area.6,22
Data on long-term survival, such as over 15 or 20 years, are quite rare in the literature, especially from population-based studies. In AML, the most remarkable finding of our series was the tapering of the survival increase observed in the 2000–2004 period. This observation had been hinted at on a European level by data from the EUROCARE database: increases in 5-year relative survival rates in AML had been reported for cases diagnosed in 1985–1989 and in 1995–1999, but a decrease was reported for cases diagnosed in 2000–2002.23–25 This scenario is difficult to explain as the quality of care probably improved and should have led to an increase in survival. Population aging might be responsible, since the incidence of AML increases with age, particularly for poor prognosis entities such as AML with multilineage dysplasia and therapy-related cases. Among MPN, the 5-year relative survival of patients with CML was much higher in our series than in the EURO-CARE 4 cohort. This was probably due to the inclusion of different types of chronic leukemia of myeloid tissue such as chronic myelomonocytic leukemia in the EUROCARE 4 series. Furthermore, the use of anti-tyrosine kinase-targeted therapy specific for BCR-ABL rearrangement in our area since the early 2000s could largely explain the observed increase in survival. The difference between long-term observed survival and relative survival reported here for cases of polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia indicates that patients more frequently die from another cause than from their hematologic myeloid disease, confirming the good prognosis of these disorders. Data on survival of MDS patients from population-based series are very rare. We report a 5-year observed survival of 32% and a relative survival of 45%, confirming the limited data from the USA and the South Thames area.6,16,17 The forms of MDS associated with best relative survival are refractory anemia with ring sideroblasts and refractory anemia, as reported in the South Thames series6 and in clinical series classified according to the International Prognostic Scoring System.26 Relative survival did not increase along the observation period, probably because of the lack of a specific therapeutic regimen available over that time period. This might very well change with the emergence of specific therapeutic approaches and the development of new drugs such as hypomethylating agents (azacitidine and decitabine) to tackle the observed increase in the incidence of these diseases due to the worldwide aging of the population.
Our population-based data highlight some useful points for clinicians and public health authorities such as the surprising decrease of the relative survival of AML in the most recent period and the increasing incidence of MDS concomitant with a lack of increase in relative survival in these disorders.
- ↵* MM and FG contributed equally to this study.
- Funding: the Registry of Hematologic Malignancies of Côte d'Or was funded by the Institut de Veille Sanitaire (InVS) and by INSERM.
- The online version of this article has a Supplementary Appendix.
- Authorship and Disclosures The information provided by the authors about contributions from persons listed as authors and in acknowledgments is available with the full text of this paper at www.haematologica.org.
- Financial and other disclosures provided by the authors using the ICMJE (www.icmje.org) Uniform Format for Disclosure of Competing Interests are also available at www.haematologica.org.
- Received April 19, 2010.
- Revision received September 28, 2010.
- Accepted September 28, 2010.
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PALIKIR, Pohnpei—On August 29th, 2022, His Excellency David W. Panuelo—President of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)—appointed Jane Chigiyal to become his new Chief of Staff. Formerly the FSM's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from late 2011 to late 2021, where she served under President Manny Mori, President Peter M. Christian, and President David W. Panuelo, Chief of Staff Chigiyal has a distinguished career in the FSM Government as a competent and capable diplomat and manager, with previous positions in the Department of Foreign Affairs including Deputy Secretary.
"It is an honor and privilege to be selected as President David W. Panuelo's Chief of Staff for the remainder of this administration," Chief of Staff Chigiyal said. "Given the many ongoing and forthcoming events and items of critical interest to the Nation and its citizens—including the forthcoming election of a new Vice President; the upcoming referendum on proposed amendments to the Constitution as a result of the FSM's Fourth Constitutional Convention; and proposed legislation of significant interest to the Executive Branch for the Congress' consideration, including legislation on developing a national marine spatial plan, permanently funding the Cyber-Security & Intelligence Bureau, and the Freedom of Information Act—there is a lot of work to be done, and my assurance to the Nation's citizenry is that I will do my very best to ensure that the administration accomplishes as much as it can in the interest of our country and its people."
The FSM National Government extends its appreciation to Chief of Staff Jane Chigiyal for her historical and contemporaneous service to the Nation and its citizens. The Government further extends its appreciation to Lorin S. Robert (the President's Special Advisor on Foreign & Political Affairs) and Richard A. Clark (the President's Press Secretary & Special Assistant), who both served as Acting Chief of Staff in the period between Chief of Staff Chigiyal's appointment and the departure of the former Chief of Staff, Leo A. Falcam Jr., who serves as the FSM's Chief Negotiator for the current round of negotiations regarding the Compact of Free Association, as Amended.


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An old home
Helen pulled on her blouse and tried to fan herself a bit. As soon as the airport's doors opened, the heat choked her and sweat appeared on her temples. She looked around and found the taxi line. Thank goodness her mother had insisted she learn how to speak, read and write in Greek as a teenager. She got in line and waited until the next available taxi pulled up. She walked up to it, as the driver lowered the passenger window to speak to her.
''Where are you going?''
He talked in a very broken English. She handed him the paper with the address on it. He nodded and stepped out of the taxi. He was in his late fifties, sweating profusely, with a round belly and an even bigger Greek nose. He seemed like a sweet man despite his appearance. She had found that almost every Greek person she had met since her trip began was very polite and sociable. He started bombarding her with questions as soon as she sat down in the passenger seat. He had insisted she sit beside him because the back windows did not open all the way and the heat was sure to kill her. She never would have agreed in any other place, but her senses were telling her that he was a good person and she concluded that she was right during the ride. They were after all going to be spending a little over three hours together. Might as well talk a little bit.
''My wife Voula is the perfect chef. Yesterday she make best pasticcio I ever tasted. Nobody make food like my wife. You should come one day to try. I invite you.''
Helen smiled and nodded. Clearly people here were very friendly, yet she somehow felt like it was genuine, not just words. It made her feel good, like she was part of an enormous family. They spoke during the rest of the trip, mostly about why she was there and where she should visit in the town she was going. She made a list and promised to do the things that were on it. When they arrived at Kalimera Notaries, she handed Antonios some money and he gasped.
''This is three times the price, you make mistake.''
Helen smiled and shook her head.
''No mistake. Buy Voula that bread machine she has been talking about.''
She gave him her hand to shake, but he pulled her into a close hug and thanked her profusely.
''I hope you find what you look for here in Greece.''
She nodded, thanked him and entered the notary office with her bags.
''A house?!''
She yelled so loud; she was sure the whole town had heard her. Amalia, the notary in charge of all the legal documents, seemed blasé about it.
''I haven't spoken to the man in ten years and he leaves me a house!?''
Amalia looked at her again with what seemed to be very little interest.
''Yes, it happens sometimes.''
She handed Helen a pen and told her where to sign if she wanted to accept it. She signed and was suddenly struck with amazement. A house, a freaking house. Something she never would have been able to afford back home even if she saved up her entire life. What on earth had made her father leave it to her? He had not been much of one to show his emotions, except for the violent ones, so she could have never known this would happen. Maybe he had finally changed by coming back to Greece? She had not heard of him in all these years and suddenly she had something that had belonged to him. Something she could touch and see. She felt strange about the whole thing. She would have preferred he leave her something smaller, something she could sell quickly and move on. However, with the house, it would just remind her of him, and she didn't really want that at the moment. She gathered her things, took the legal papers with the address on them and went back out to see for a taxi. While she walked, she wondered if life was going to throw her any more curve balls. She felt as though her entire life was beginning again, what other new thing was going to happen?
As soon as Helen arrived in the little town, she asked the taxi driver to drop her off where she could get a bite to eat. She was starving and in need of a good bath. The bath would have to wait. She didn't know what kind of condition the house was in, maybe she would need to stay at a hotel until she figured things out. She took a deep breath and sighed. She felt like the house would be an even bigger headache than she anticipated, she just didn't know why yet. As she entered the restaurant the driver suggested, she passed by a few people who were staring at her very intently. She waited at the entrance sign to be seated. She had to admit it, the interior was quaint and cozy, it felt like someone's home. An older man greeted her and sat her down near the kitchen door. The smells were heavenly. She took a big sniff and the man laughed.
''My wife is the best cook. Everything she makes is delicious. What will you have?''
She smiled and looked down at the menu.
''Can you choose something for me please. I have no idea; it all seems perfect right now.''
He nodded and disappeared behind the kitchen door, only to reappear a moment later with a beverage.
''This is the freshest lemonade you will ever have.''
Helen smiled and thanked him. Truth be told, she hated the blasted beverage. She didn't like the aftertaste, so she just avoided it altogether. However, as with everything else in this country, she had been pleasantly surprised so far. She brought it up to her mouth and took a small sip. All the bad memories of lemonade before this one had vanished. It was as though she was drinking a sweet lemon, if such a thing was possible. She took a few big gulps, caught his attention as he was passing and asked for another one.
''I knew you would like it. I usually am not wrong with these things.''
She smiled and thanked him again for the discovery.
''I don't mean to be rude, but who are you?''
She explained who she was as simply as she could. She knew other people in the restaurant were probably listening and she didn't like gossip feeders. It was a small town after all and with small towns everyone knew everyone else's business. She wanted to keep some privacy if possible. The man welcomed her officially to the town and disappeared once more behind the door. What happened next, she didn't see. The man walked up behind Ash, one of his cooks and slapped him hard against the back of the head.
She wiped the sweat off her forehead and looked in dismay at the house she saw. It was sort of like she remembered her father, old, weathered and in good need of some repairs. She laughed when she thought about it now. Did she really expect anything different? It was almost in ruins and the more she looked at it, the more it seemed like it was about to all come crashing down. She stepped carefully across knee length grass and pushed on the front door cautiously. To her surprise, the inside wasn't as bad as she would have imagined. It was a small house, but the floor plan was open, so it felt bigger than it was. The style was typically Greek, something she had always liked surprisingly. She set her stuff down in the bedroom and found the bathroom to freshen up a bit. She took off her shirt, splashed some water on it and used it as a washcloth to pat some water on her face and neck. She felt refreshed instantly. As she was walking back to the room for a new shirt, the front door opened, and she yelled. She quickly ducked behind the bedroom door. ''Whoever you are, you are trespassing. Leave now or I will have to use force.'' And she meant it. She had a black belt in karate, something else her mother had talked her into doing when she was younger. She had found a passion for it and she still practiced as much as she could. The stranger laughed. She heard footsteps coming towards her.


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A black man was shot in the back of the head by a police officer in Michigan at the end of a traffic stop, a brief foot chase and struggle over a stun gun, according to videos of the April 4 incident released Wednesday.
The man was killed when officers fired shots at him from behind after he refused orders to get on the ground. The shooting, caught on body camera video, has prompted outrage over how police treated the unarmed man and questions about whether the shooting was justified.
Patrick Lyoyo, age 26, was killed outside a house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Lyoya was repeatedly ordered by the officer to "let go" of the Taser. He didn't. And at one point he demanded: "Drop the Taser!"
The city's new police chief, Eric Winstrom, released four videos including critical footage of the shooting recorded by a passenger in the car on the rainy morning.
I view it as a tragedy. It was a progression of sadness for me, said Winstrom, a former high ranking Chicago police commander who became Grand Rapids chief in March. The city of about 200, 000 people is about 150 miles (240 kilometres) northwest of Detroit.
In the video, Lyoya drives away from the officer who had stopped him for driving with an out-of-state license plate. They had struggled in front of several homes while his passenger watched.
According to Winstrom, the fight over the stun gun lasted about 90 seconds. In the final moments, the officer was kneeling on the back Lyoya, trying to subdue the man.
From my view of the video, Taser was deployed twice. Taser did not make contact, Winstrom told reporters. And Mr. Lyoya was shot in the head. However, that's the only information that I have.
This is a tragedy. The police are now investigating the shooting. The County Medical Examiner has been notified. Stephen Cohle, said he completed the autopsy but toxicology tests haven't been finished yet.
After the officer got out of his car, the situation escalated quickly. The video shows Lyoya getting out of the car, before the officer even approached. He ordered Lyoya to get back in the vehicle but the man declined.
The officer asked him if he spoke English and demanded his driver's license. The foot chase began soon after, video shows.
Winstrom didn't identify the officer, a seven year veteran who is on paid leave during the investigation.
Me being from Chicago for the last 20 years, I've handled many police shootings myself, so I do have a lot of experience in this, the chief said. I was hoping to never have to utilise that experience here.
City Manager Mark Washington warned that the videos would lead to expressions of shock, of anger and of pain. Some downtown businesses boarded up their storefronts, and concrete barricades surrounded police headquarters.
Lyoya had two young daughters and five siblings, said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who spoke to his family.
Video was collected from Lyoya's passenger, the officer's body worn camera, the officer's patrol car and a doorbell camera. Prosecutor Chris Becker, who will decide whether any charges are warranted, objected to the release but said Winstrom could act on his own.
Becker said the public shouldn't expect a quick decision.
While the videos released today are an important piece of evidence, they are not all of the evidence, he said.
He arrived in the United States as a refugee with his family fleeing violence. He had his whole life ahead of him, Whitmer, a Democrat, said.
Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump, speaking on behalf of Lyoya's family, on Wednesday called for the officer in the shooting to be fired and prosecuted.
The video clearly shows that this was an unnecessary, excessive, and fatal use of force against an unarmed Black man who was confused by the encounter and terrified for his life, Crump said in a release.
Crump and Lyoya's family are expected to hold a news conference Thursday afternoon.
Hundreds of demonstrators marched to Grand Rapids city hall before a city commission meeting Tuesday night to protest racial injustice in the US, with some chanting "Black lives matter" and "No justice, no peace.
We DEMAND that the officer who killed Patrick not only be terminated for his excessive and fatal force, but be arrested and prosecuted for his violent, reckless, and unjustified killing of this Black man during a misdemeanor traffic stop!
— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) April 13, 2022
Protesters gathered outside the Grand Rapids Police Department Wednesday to voice their concerns after police released the videos of the the incident.
The group demanded that officers make the name of the officer who shot her public.
Some businesses cut their hours short Wednesday, closing early. Some boarded up windows. But the demonstration remained non violent with protesters demanding justice for Lyoya and other Black lives lost in shootings involving police.
I get it as a father. . It's just heart wrenching, the chief told WOOD TV.
As in many American cities, Grand Rapids police have been occasionally criticised over the use of force, particularly against Black people, who make up 18% of the population.
In November, the Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit over the practice of photographing and fingerprinting people who were never charged with a crime. Grand Rapids said the policy changed in 2015.
A downtown street has been designated Breonna Taylor Way, named for the Black woman and Grand Rapids native who was killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky, during a botched drug raid in 2020.


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Gaming is a popular hobby enjoyed by millions of people worldwide. However, playing video games for extended periods on a console or PC can negatively affect your physical and mental well-being.
Overview Gaming Safely
When engaging in video game play, it is imperative to prioritize taking regular breaks, especially during extended periods of gameplay. Lengthy durations of this activity can lead to ocular strain, fatigue, and headaches. To mitigate such effects, it is recommended that a 15-minute break be taken every hour or two. During these intervals, it is paramount to engage in physical movement, such as stretching one's legs, to enhance blood circulation and eliminate stiffness.
2. Posture
3. Screen Height
When you're gaming, it's essential to consider the height of your screen. Poor positioning can cause eye fatigue and neck strain. For optimal comfort, position your monitor at eye level. If you're using a laptop, a stand can help raise it to the correct height. This will keep your neck in a neutral position, reducing the risk of neck pain or related issues.
Also, ensure your monitor is set at eye level, and your keyboard and mouse are at a comfortable distance from your body. These adjustments will alleviate neck and back pain, creating a more enjoyable and pain-free gaming experience.
4. Wrist Protection
Gamers who engage in prolonged and frequent gaming sessions, particularly with a controller or keyboard and mouse, may experience wrist pain. This can be a significant source of discomfort for avid gamers who devote a considerable amount of time to their craft. To avoid this, it is recommended that gamers maintain a neutral wrist position while gaming.
This means that their wrist should be in a straight line with their forearm, with no upward or downward bending. One effective way to achieve this is by using a wrist rest. This accessory keeps the wrist in a comfortable and neutral position, thereby reducing strain on the wrist muscles. However, it is essential to note that using a wrist rest should not cause the wrist to bend upwards or downwards, as this can still result in pain and discomfort.
Meanwhile, taking regular breaks while gaming is highly recommended. These breaks could only be a few minutes every hour, during which gamers can stretch their hands and fingers. Such stretching exercises improve blood flow to the wrist and fingers, effectively reducing stiffness. By following these simple tips, gamers can prevent wrist pain and enjoy their gaming experience without discomfort.
5. Gaming Environment
When you engage in gaming, you may need to realize that the environment in which you do so can have a significant impact on your health.
To avoid experiencing eye strain and fatigue, it is crucial that you ensure your gaming area is well-lit. Avoid playing in a dark room or under bright lights, as these can both be detrimental to your eyesight.
Additionally, you should ensure that your gaming area is well-ventilated to prevent discomfort and fatigue caused by heat buildup. Taking these simple steps will help you enjoy your gaming experience to the fullest without compromising your health.
6. Breaks
Taking breaks is crucial when gaming for extended periods. It's important to step away from the screen and give your eyes and body a chance to rest. During breaks, stretch your legs, move around, and engage in physical activity. All these will help improve blood flow, reduce stiffness, and prevent musculoskeletal disorders. Additionally, taking breaks can help you maintain focus and avoid fatigue, which can negatively impact your gaming performance.
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If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle. – I Corinthians 14:8
First Corinthians is a book in the New Testament of the Christian bible, written by Saint Paul while he was in Ephesus to the church in Corinth he had founded. First Corinthians is generally thought to have been written sometime between 53 and 57 AD and is one of 13 epistles credited to Paul in the New Testament, and one of seven of these to be considered by most biblical scholars to be of unquestioned authenticity.
Today's Thought comes in the context of Paul encouraging his church's members to speak in tongues and to prophesize, but to do so in a manner that is easy to understand, because if they don't who will hear the message?
Today's Thought is relevant in our lives, even for those of us for whom the bible holds little influence and who do not speak in tongues.
We must be confident in this life. We must be confident in ourselves. We must be confident that the path we are on is the life we were meant to be living. There is no substitute for this because only when we are living the lives we were meant to live are we doing ourselves or anyone else any good.
No one will believe in us like we believe in ourselves. It's not possible. Sure, your mother will come pretty close. A good spouse will try. But that's really it because nobody has the breadth or depth of vision for our lives that we do. It's not possible nor, frankly, is it particularly desirable because why should somebody believe in ourselves more than we do?
Our trumpet must not give off an uncertain sound. No matter what we do – build a chair, teach a class, serve a customer – our trumpet must ring with certainty because only with the certainty of being true to ourselves will our lives resonate with others.
The Thought for the Day runs regularly. Quotes are from Gaylon's personal quotebook, begun in a motel room in Berkeley, California in 1988.


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Celebrate outstanding contributions to sustainability at McGill at the 2022 Catalyst Awards Gala, hosted by the McGill Office of Sustainability, as we gather over food and drinks to toast the McGillians who have made our University a more sustainable place to work and study.
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Venue is wheelchair accessible through the entrance at 2175 Victoria Street (West side of the Museum). Limited seating will be available. The McCord Museum is accessible via McGill metro station (green line) or the 24 bus on Sherbrooke Street.
About McGill Office of Sustainability
Established in 2010, the McGill Office of Sustainability embeds climate action and sustainability into all of the University's activities. It engages, supports, and connects students, staff, and faculty by providing strategic guidance and resources to foster a sustainable community.
The Office of Sustainability stewards McGill's flagship Sustainability Projects Fund, oversees the implementation of the McGill University Climate & Sustainability Strategy 2020-2025, and offers sustainability programming for students, staff, and faculty members.


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How to Start Ginger Business : Here is a detailed explanation on how to start ginger business.
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Setting Out On a Dried Split Ginger
Found in all the nearby markets the nation over, the plant, regularly utilized as flavor, is additionally being devoured for recuperating and alleviation impact.
The list of ginger uses is practically perpetual, being an impactful zesty herb and one of the more prevalent food flavors.
They extend from prepared products like gingerbread, ginger scones, ginger treats to beverages like ginger tea, ginger lager, ginger beer, and so forth.
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The Opportunities in Ginger Business
While various Nigerians have confined its uses to these two angles, some others have gone into its development and procurement with the end goal of export.
Nigeria creates a normal of 40,000 metric huge amounts of crisp weight ginger per annum.
Out of this production, a normal of 10 per cent is privately expended as crisp ginger.
While 90 per cent is dried and 20 per cent of this is consumed locally for different uses while the remaining is sent out.
As indicated by the World Trade Promotion Export/Import Limited.
Nigerian ginger is profoundly esteemed in universal markets for its fragrance.
Sharpness and high oil and oleoresin content.
Ginger has different utilizations relying upon the condition of processing and reason.
Ginger oil and oleoresin are extricated from dried ginger.
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Health Benefits of Ginger
Ginger contains around two for two per cent fundamental oil.
The oil is removed and refined from rhizomes for different uses in ice cream parlor, perfumery, drinks and pharmaceuticals.
Dried ginger is utilized mainly for flavor coffee particularly in the Middle East.
It contains medicinal qualities and it is also used to calm nausea and aids digestion.
Dried ginger is utilized as a part of various cooking techniques.
It is an important flavor in Asia, the Caribbean and African cooking.
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Ginger Market
The aggregate world market estimate for dried ginger where Nigeria is a part of the main three supplier is $15m with a yearly development rate of three per cent.
The world market share Nigeria of dried split ginger is put at an average of 20 per cent exporting ginger to various countries in the world.
Traditional export markets include the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, France, United States of America, Russia, Saudi Arabia among others.
In 2010, it was estimated that around 10,000 to 12,000 metric tonnes of dried split ginger was exported from Nigerian to various destinations.
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Ginger, an exported crop
Ginger is an important Nigerian export crop, which is quoted in the acclaimed trade journal.
The Public Ledger, published in London and circulated worldwide since 1760.
Brokers portray the market for gingers as steady and calm.
There are some foundation developments obvious in the import insights.
Yet this is a mind boggling market with end clients reacting to various drives.
On the up side, an expansion in demand is guaranteed in the food readiness area.
As the purchaser turns out to be more bold in looking for new flavors.
How to Start Ginger Business :
Set Out the Business
For as meager as amongst N200,000 and N230,000.
An individual can obtain one ton of powdered ginger for fare.
Including that amongst N160,000 and N180,000, one can likewise secure comparative tonnage of dry ginger.
In the country, collecting begins from October and typically proceeds until April/May.
This to a great extent relies on upon the market circumstance as ginger can be left on the ground (not collected) for a long time.
A large portion of the dried ginger that are accessible for universal exchange.
Are just sun dried over a couple days.
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However simulated drying is additionally utilized as a part of regions without a characterized dry season to harmonize with the gather.
The rhizome is dried to in the vicinity of 10 and 12 for each penny dampness content.
Dried ginger is typically displayed in a part or cut frame.
Part is said to be liked to cutting, as cutting loses more flavor.
Yet the cut are less demanding to granulate.
And this is the overwhelming type of dried ginger as of now in the market.
How to Start Ginger Business :
Ginger Processing and Packaging
Entire dried ginger are likewise exchanged, yet the drying is wasteful and costly.
And there is the danger of spoilage amid the long drying time.
Now and again, ginger is peeled, yet this is costly in the process of giving birth.
In spite of the fact that it gives a fine appearance to the rhizome, the flavor and the weight are decreased.
In Nigeria, there are just two known industrial facilities in which just a single is at present working at a low limit.
including that ginger can be handled as ginger oil, oleo resin, powder and different concentrates for different purposes.
Note that "New exporters to the market must go for giving quality service that will recognize them from the current players so as to contend effectively.
Great quality, aggressive valuing and dependability of supply are essential for market achievement.
Ginger is exchanged three fundamental structures.
Which incorporate green, salted or safeguarded and dried.
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Export Potentials of Ginger
"Dried ginger is standardized at 50kg for export.
Nigerian ginger is exceedingly esteemed in the universal markets for its smell.
Sharpness and high oil and oleoresin substance.
The dried ginger is normally sold in part shape.
No blanching is completed and the shading is yellow.
The Nigerian flavor is more impactful and has lemony tone than ginger from spots like China and India.
"A portion of the importing nations are the United Kingdom.
The Netherlands and Germany while those in the fare exchange are China, India, Nigeria, Jamaica and Sierra Leone."
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Beginning a Ginger Export Business
To begin a export business, cash is not the most important thing.
You need the learning, the correct thought and the market required.
There is a guarantee to help any country with the correct self-control.
What you have to succeed is Integrity, trustworthiness, and industriousness.
A ton of Nigerians are working a profoundly lucrative locally situated fare company.
Today, they are making a relentless income of between N50 000 and N500 000 month to month.
Regularly with no capital speculation, no hazard at their extra time.
The benefit from the principal exchange can be furrowed back.
And a financial specialist will have the capacity to develop his capital base.
How to Start Ginger Business :
Coordinated Effort with Nigerians
Anybody into the ginger export business can work with a ton of Nigerians living in the UK.
To distinguish the correct product in the Nigerian market since they know the market.
And the landscape and get customary demand from such Nigerians every once in a while.
Send Out Mentoring Services
This is the kind of services given to Nigerians who no beside nothing about export.
And don't have enough cash however with little contract.
You can then become huge to execute greater contracts.
How to Start Ginger Business :
Ginger Export and Value Chain
Ginger Export has an esteem chain; you have to plan your export.
Then you have to get a purchaser who is called contract source.
The following stride is to source for the product taken after.
By the coordination procedure and documentation.
Before you in the end dispatch the products.
Aggregated export services:
The aggregated export service suppliers are proficient investors.
Oil and gas experts and retirees; some of these individuals have assets.
And they need to go into the lucrative export showcase.
If they subscribe to these services.
The bills will go to these class of individuals consistently on the accessible export contract.
They will contribute and they have return, if there is any they are interested in.
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There are employments for this class of individuals particularly the period of exportable products in the Northern parts of the nation.
There is additionally guarantee by the proprietor to pay them up to 150 000 for each trailer.
Are you living in the North? If yes, you can go to Jigawa state.
Go to Babadu or Megatere market.
There is also a market between Bernin Kudu and Gwaram.
Another is in most major commodity markets in the North and in another place.
You can meet any of the sellers of ginger that live in these towns.
And tell them and that you need a large quantity of ginger.
A bag of ginger is about 80kg to 100kg.
All you need to do is to arrange the truck as well as people that will load and negotiate with the driver.
You will need to calculate all the expenses. Get a truck load of 30 metric tones; if a truck will collect N240 000.
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Full time exporter:
These exporters just draw in cargo forwarders negligibly for their port of stacking operations.
The alternative are reasonable for the individuals.
Who are accessible 24 hour and likewise existing business suppliers.
That will get a kick out of the chance to be completely required in their fare operations.
The arrival on Investment on this alternative could run from 30% to 45%. The exporter is included in
1. export planning,
2. send out financing,
3. trade contract sourcing,
4. send out product sourcing,
5. pre-send out documentation,
6. haulage to the warehousing,
7. warehousing and review,
8. cargo sending,
9. haulage to the port of stacking and
10. post trade documentations.
How to Start Ginger Business :
Part Time Exporters
These exporters rely on upon counseling firms and cargo forwarders to do some of their export operations.
This choice is appropriate for people that might want to begin a business.
While still in a paid work and additionally have some an opportunity to save.
Also, a reasonable alternative for existing businesses that need to strip.
The arrival on venture for this alternative could go from 25% to 35%.
The exporter is included in
1. export planning,
2. trade financing,
3. send out product,
4. sourcing,
5. pre-send out documentation,
6. haulage to the product house,
7. haulage to the port of stacking,
8. post send out documentation.
How to Start Ginger Business :
Arm Chair Exporter
These exporters depend on consulting firms.
Local buying agents and freight forwarders to carry out most of their export operation.
This option is suitable for individuals that would like to start a business.
While still in a paid employment but do not have enough time to spare.
The return on investment for this option could range from 10% to 25%.
The exporter is only involved in export planning.
Export financing, pre- export documentation and post export documentation.
Export Brokerage
An export broker is a match maker.
Becoming an export broker is one of the easiest.
And the most rewarding ways any prospecting exporter can raise money to go into full time export business.
Their advantage are enormous starting from little or no capital.
An export broker could earn large "finders fees" with absolutely unlimited income.
There is hardly another business requiring a negligible start-up cost.
That can put you into a six-figure bracket so quickly than an online based export business.
It gives one the power, prestige and high respectability in his community.
How to Start Ginger Business :
Export Business Can Still Accommodate More citizens
The non-oil export business is still at its very primitive stage in the country with a high potential for growth.
The market is thus unlimited [especially for agriculture commodities and other consumables].
Therefore, there is space for anyone that would like to earn foreign exchange via the export business.
If you are interested in export business, you can start as an armchair export.
Or enter the business as a part-time exporter and finally as a full-time exporter.
If you enter as a full-time exporter.
Then you should grow to become a part time exporter.
And finally a full-time exporter depending on your strategy.


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Nov 22, 2019
Colson Hillier is the Chief Marketing Officer at Alorica, based in New Jersey, US.
Alorica is a global CX company with over 100,000 employees - the largest CX specialist based in the US. Colson talked on this podcast episode about the need to manage automation projects and digital transformation.


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Government figures are being manipulated to suggest courts are under less strain than is actually the case, the Criminal Bar Association has claimed.
Chair of the CBA, Caroline Goodwin QC, said there is an increasing trend to list trials as mentions to 'avoid the trap of being a trial which is not reached'. Mentions are short pre-trial court appearances. In her weekly message to members, Goodwin said: 'For those of you in the know, that is a sin. This approach utterly undermines and devalues the purpose of these figures.'
Goodwin also said the word 'median' should be removed from the statistical data reported quarterly by the Ministry of Justice and replaced with 'true and accurate figures as to the timeliness of trials'. She said: 'No wonder the allocation of sitting days has been so farcical if the data relied on is skewed and out of date...Who is sanctioning the manipulation of trial listing so that as if by magic a trial is demoted to a mere mention?'.
A HM Courts & Tribunals Service spokesperson said: 'These claims are completely untrue.'
Last November the government promised that 700 additional Crown court sitting days will be available before the end of the financial year. However, the CBA said this is 'simply not enough', adding that a 'tiny increase in Crown court sitting days is frankly derisory'.
According to the CBA, 700 extra days represents an increase of less than 1% over the course of a year. This follows a '15% cull' last spring when the annual budget was reduced from 97,400 court sitting days to 82,300.


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