Ms. Cat posted: " The Fed Announces Plans to Permanently Backstop Wall Street with a Standing Repo Loan Facility of $500 Billion…Starting Tomorrow It's like they know something else is coming, not unlike they did right before the pandemic. "
Conan Altatis posted: " Kris Wu (吴亦凡) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and model of Chinese descent. He is 6'1" tall. Wu was born Li Jiaheng (李嘉恒) in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. His name was later legally changed to Wu Yi Fan (吴亦凡). Aside from "
Kris Wu (吴亦凡) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and model of Chinese descent. He is 6'1" tall.
Wu was born Li Jiaheng (李嘉恒) in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. His name was later legally changed to Wu Yi Fan (吴亦凡).
Aside from English, Wu also speaks Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese and Korean. Here are 13 more things about him:
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In 2000, he and his mother moved from Guangzhou to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
In 2004, he and his mother went back to China. He attended Guangzhou No. 7 Middle School but shortly after, they moved back to Vancouver where he attended Point Grey Secondary School and Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School.
In 2008, he auditioned for the SM Entertainment in Vancouver. He passed the auditions and became a trainee for the company.
On February 17, 2012, SM Entertainment introduced him as the 11th member of its K-pop boy band EXO. The group's debut album "XOXO" was released on June 3, 2013.
In 2013, he appeared in several television series including "Da Pai Jia Dao (Bigshot)," "After School Club," "Hello, Counselor," "Weekly Idol," "Running Man," "Showtime" and "Let's Go Dream Team."
In 2014, he left EXO. That year, he had three singles a solo artist namely "Say Yes," "Time Boils the Rain" and "There is a Place." On May 15, 2014, he filed a lawsuit against SM Entertainment to terminate his contract. In June 2014, he joined Heart Ali, a charity project started by Fan Bingbing and Chen Lizhi that helps children with congenital heart defects in Ngari, Tibet.
He was 25 years old when he became the youngest celebrity to have a wax figure at Madame Tussauds Shanghai on the 10th floor of the New World Department Store in Shanghai, China in 2015. In the same year, he released two singles namely "Bad Girl" and "Greenhouse Girl." He played Peng Zeyang in "Somewhere Only We Know," which was released on February 14, 2015. It marked his debut as a film actor. On July 30, 2015, SM Entertainment filed a lawsuit against him and the Chinese companies working with him at the court in Beijing, China. They reached a settlement, which allowed him to be under the company's management only in South Korea and Japan. He played Xiao Fei in "Mr. Six," which was screened at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy on September 12, 2015.
On January 21, 2016, he launched his own charity project called Extraordinary Honorary Court (不凡荣誉球场) in collaboration with Sina, Weibo Sports and Weibo Charity. In 2016, he starred in four films namely "The Mermaid," "So Young 2: Never Gone," "Sweet Sixteen" and "L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties" and released four singles namely "From Now On," "July," "Sword like Dream" and "Good Kid." For his "Sweet Sixteen" role, he won Best Actor at the 29th Tokyo International Film Festival.
In 2017, he starred in three films namely "xXx: Return of Xander Cage," "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" and "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" and five singles namely "6," "I Choose the Road," "Deserve," "Miss You" and "B.M." In the same year, he made his international debut as the Bulgari brand ambassador at the BaselWorld.
He played Rocky in "Europe Raiders," which was released on August 17, 2018. His debut studio album "Antares" was released on November 2, 2018.
In 2019, he released two singles namely "Big Bowl, Thick Noodle" and "Eternal Love."
His extended play "Testing" was released on April 22, 2020. He reprised his role as Yin Chen in "L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties 2," which was released on December 4, 2020.
On July 8, 2021, Chinese college student Du Meizhu, then 19, took to Weibo to publicly accuse him of a pattern of sexual assault involving several women, including underage girls, while they were intoxicated and unconscious. He denied the accusations. On July 31, 2021, he was arrested in Beijing on suspicion of rape.
Uchenna Mbam posted: " Former Nigeria Senate President, Bukola Saraki has dismissed reports of his arrest by the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). He made this known in a statement shared by his media office on his Facebook page. PRESS STATEMENT The"
Former Nigeria Senate President, Bukola Saraki has dismissed reports of his arrest by the Economic And Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
He made this known in a statement shared by his media office on his Facebook page.
PRESS STATEMENT
The Media Office of Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki would like to confirm that this afternoon, on his own volition, Dr. Saraki visited the office of the EFCC to clarify any issue that the commission may have wanted to raise with him.
It will be recalled that following the order of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on the Fundamental Human Rights case filed by Dr. Saraki during the period of the former Chairman of the EFCC which precluded the commission from investigating him until the matter is dispensed with, the commission at the last hearing on July 14, 2021, pleaded with the judge that the order was preventing them from doing their job.
Following this complaint, Dr. Saraki, as a responsible citizen, on his own volition approached the commission that at the earliest convenient date, he was willing to visit the commission's office and clarify all issues they might want to raise with him.
He, therefore, visited the commission's office this afternoon and answered some questions. He is back home. He was not arrested. Dr. Saraki also assured the commission that he has nothing to hide and will always make himself available to clear all issues that may require his attention.
thejohnfleming posted: " WEDNESDAY 21st JULYSo I had blood tests last Friday. The Calcium Man phoned me up at teatime yesterday, sounding slightly rattled. He said I should come into hospital, either last night or this morning. I said this morning would be easier. It's "
The Calcium Man phoned me up at teatime yesterday, sounding slightly rattled. He said I should come into hospital, either last night or this morning. I said this morning would be easier.
It's the same problem as last year - a high calcium level and very low kidney function. Dangerously low. They never knew and still don't know the cause of last year's problem. Or my ongoing problems.
I was in hospital for a week last year until they could sort out the calcium/kidney levels.
This year, when I checked in to the hospital this morning, I was told it will probably be a shorter stay this year, because they had tested EVERYTHING last year and in the year in between... because cancer had been a possibility. This had never been mentioned to me before.
One of the advantages of being in hospital for a Scot is that you get free food and, despite the reputation of UK hospital food, I found out last year that it is very good.
I am told they will sort out the calcium level with a drip - like last year. And that should sort out the kidney function. And maybe they will do a brain scan, as they've scanned pretty much everything else.
I think the nurses are mostly trainees in my ward. Certainly the woman in charge is and at least one other nurse is.
It is a ward of five beds.
The trainee in charge has maybe two nurses under her plus there's a bloke sitting at a computer in mid-ward who I presume is doing admin stuff but who acts as a general nurse if no-one else is about or they're busy. It's difficult to tell.
Not unusually, all the female nurses are black. The bloke in the middle at the computer is, I guess, Eastern Europe somewhere.
The supervising nurse has a lovely sense of humour and seems very efficient. It helps that she is something like 12 feet tall. I exaggerate. But it feels like that.
A nurse is currently checking a patient:
"Do you know where you are?"
"Dominique."
"What is your name?"
There is a long pause and eventually no answer.
"Do you know what month it is?"
"No."
A little later, more dialogue with a different patient:
"Here are your tablets…"
"Why?"
"They are your medication."
"I don't need them!"
"They are to help your problem."
"I've never had so many tablets in my life."
"You are in hospital."
"No I'm not!"
This is not a mental ward. This is an ordinary NHS ward.
I could never be a nurse.
All the nurses in the ward wear masks, although we are now mostly out of Covid restrictions. The patients do not wear masks and, when the Calcium Man comes to see me, he wears no mask - nor do the two trainee junior doctors who come with him.
The Calcium Man says I will be linked up to three consecutive bags of saline drip, from noon to 8.00pm
BBC Newsflash re NHS pay rise
In mid-afternoon, the government announces there will be a 3% pay rise for many NHS workers. The initial offer had been for 1%. Two nurses were discussing it and one said her salary was £10,000pa. They worked it out - the increase would mean an extra £300 per year for her - roughly £5.76p extra per week.
Later in the day, there is heavy verbal abuse from the man who thinks he is not in hospital about how the nurses are liars and that he doesn't need to be in hospital.
"You know it," he says. "You know it's true."
This patient's name is Michael. (Well, not really, All names in this blog have been changed to protect people's privacy.)
Michael is like a human goldfish. He is a small white man with long white hair. His memory is very short indeed. His conversations are circular, because he does not remember what he said or what he was told ten minutes ago.
In the bed next to Michael and in the opposite corner from me is a tall man from a small African country. He doesn't say much. He only has one arm.
A hospital security man is called up to the ward because of Michael.
The security man says Michael is no real threat and the security man goes away again.
In the corner bed, the quiet tall man from a small African country tries to persuade various nurses to get him 12 packs of cigarettes.
The nurse sitting in the middle of the ward at the computer mentions to someone that, a while ago, in another ward, the quiet tall man from a small African country who only has one arm hit him.
Michael is obsessed about wanting to leave the ward and, occasionally, he and the tall man from a small African country who only has one arm start shouting at each other.
At 3.00am in the morning, Michael is determined to go out shopping for clothes and food and has to be restrained.
The shouting continues and, I think, the tall man from a small African country must have been given a knock-out injection because he went quiet.
I get little sleep.
TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW... WITH A MURDER IN THE WARD...
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So I had blood tests last Friday.
