Neele Eckhardt-Noack narrowly missed a medal in the triple jump. The 30-year-old jumps 14.43 m in the Olympic Stadium and finishes fourth – two centimeters more would have been enough for bronze. Maryna Bech-Romantschuk secures gold with a European annual best of 15.02 m. Finland’s Kristiina Mäkelä wins silver with a new national record (14.64), Hanna Minenko from Israel wins bronze with 14.45 m.
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August 19, 2022
“I put classical music on it…”: María Luisa Godoy’s emotional story about the “dignified” death of her father
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
María Luisa Godoy was the guest for the chapter of from you to you (Channel 13), while he is getting ready to have his fifth bus and for what will be the Festival de Viña 2023.
In this episode, he talked regarding different passages in his life, including when he got married at the age of 26, a union that only lasted a few months. “My first marriage was my first big failure,” she recounted. “It felt like something very painful and it took me many years to get over it.”
However, that milestone allowed her to invite her father, former deputy Domingo Godoy, who had suffered a stroke fifteen years earlier, to live with her. “My dad was the age of my friends’ grandparents,” she said. “I was very shocked to live that last time with him”, because “he was already bedridden and might not walk”
There, he confessed, “for the first time I felt afraid of something, and it was disability.”
The “worthy” end
After eight years living under the same roof, at 91, he decided that his goodbye would be at home, not in a clinic. “I said goodbye to my dad in a very nice way,” she recalled.
“It began to turn off, I called the geriatrician, and he told me that he had 24 hours left,” he explained. “Then we might take him to the clinic or let him die at home.” However, “my dad hated hospitals”, so he “always told me that all he wanted was to die at home, in peace”.
Faced with the imminent outcome, which occurred in December 2013, “I called all his children to say goodbye,” he said. “He loved classical music, so I put on classical music, we brought him a priest who gave him extreme unction, surrounded by his children and he left super peacefully.”
“He never complained, he never asked me for anything,” she had told in Your time has come (TVN). “She taught me to die like this, with dignity and with a very happy life, very peaceful and honest.” In short, even “to die” was a “simple” type, he even told his offspring: “I’m at your house, I’m paid.”
the liquidity deficit widens to more than 94 billion dirhams
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The bank liquidity deficit increased last July to 94.2 billion dirhams (MMDH), a widening of 13.2 billion dirhams compared to the same period in 2021, according to Attijari Global Research (AGR).
In its recent note “Weekly Hebdo Rates -Fixed Income”, relating to the week running from August 12 to 18, the subsidiary of Attijariwafa Bank underlines that the Treasury has slightly raised the level of average investments of its cash surpluses on the money market of regarding 1 billion dirhams in one week.
Indeed, investments with repurchase agreement and blank reached 6.4 billion dirhams once morest 5.6 billion dirhams a week earlier, specifies the same source.
At the end of this week, the interbank market remains balanced with interbank rates in line with the Key Rate, AGR said, adding that the MONIA index recorded, however, a decline of 2 basis points (Pbs) in one week at 1.42%. This reached its lowest level for 6 months at 1.40%.
In addition, AGR points out that BAM, playing its role as regulator, slightly reduced its interventions this week through its main operations from 190 million dirhams (MDH) to 39.5 billion dirhams.
Moreover, its long-term interventions, in the form of guaranteed loans and delivered repos, stabilized at the same level as last week.
SL (with MAP)
The Islamic State Organization: Life imprisonment for a member of the “Beetles” cell, the patron saint of Sheikh
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
4 hours ago
photo released, US Department of Justice
A US court has sentenced a British Islamic State fighter to life imprisonment for his involvement in a terrorist cell.
Shafee Elsheikh, 34, was convicted in April of kidnapping hostages, conspiring to kill US citizens, and supporting a terrorist organization.
The judge described the actions of the Sudanese-born sheikh as “horrific, barbaric, brutal and criminal.”
The sheikh was one of the most prominent ISIS fighters on trial in the United States. The judge said that what the accused had done led to the killing of four American hostages.
The cell kidnapped and killed journalists James Foley and Stephen Sotloff, and aid workers Kayla Mueller and Peter Kassig.
The families of the hostages expressed a mixture of gratitude and disappointment with the outcome. James Foley’s mother, who was standing outside the courtroom on Friday, called the ruling a “hollow victory”, but it showed that “American justice will find you wherever you are”.
“Our country has lost four of its best citizens,” she said. “The families of their loved ones have lost forever.”
The verdict came on the eighth anniversary of Foley’s death. Foley’s mother told the BBC that when she first heard of her son’s death she thought it was a “cruel joke”.
Former hostages of the cell said that the sheikh was a member of a cell called “The Beatles” or “Beetles”, following the name of the famous singing group, because of their British accents.
The three members of the cell, Sheikh, Alexanda Kotey and Mohamed Emwazi, J. grew up in west London and volunteered to fight for the Islamic State in Syria, ending up guarding Western hostages.
US authorities say the group beheaded 27 hostages.
Sheikh was the only one of the three gunmen to stand trial in the United States, following Kotey pleaded guilty to the charges last September, and Emwazi was killed in a 2015 drone attack in Syria.
In April, a 12-person jury deliberated for less than six hours over two days before the sheikh was found guilty.
The grueling 11-day trial included the testimonies of former hostages and their family members. Previous hostages described the cell as brutal.
Eyewitnesses recounted that they were randomly beaten, given names of dogs, and forced to sing a parody of the Eagles’ “Hotel California” following they changed its name to “Hotel Osama.”
Al-Sheikh was sentenced to eight life sentences with no option of parole.
The sheikh has appealed the verdict and his lawyer has been disqualified, which means that he claims that he did not get a fair trial.