Month: March 2024

Man charged with making death threat during blackjack game

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Post date March 22, 2024
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IS-affiliated woman guilty of 5-Year-old Yazidi girl’s death receives 14-year sentence

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Post date March 22, 2024
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A German Federal Court on Wednesday struck down an appeal lodged by a 32-year-old German woman who, in 2015, while married to an Islamic State fighter, allowed an enslaved 5-year-old Yazidi girl to die of thirst.

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Known publicly as Jessica W., the defendant was sentenced to 14 years in 2021 after being deported back to Germany from Turkey following the nominal defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

The defendant and her husband, Taha Al-J., an Iraqi national, were both found liable for the girl’s death when evidence showed that the girl had been chained to a tree by the husband and left to die in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.

Jessica W. was convicted in the original Frankfurt-based trial of having had the ability to prevent the death while actively deciding to do nothing. She was found guilty of two counts of crimes against humanity through enslavement and one count of having joined a terrorist organization abroad.

Jessica W.’s appeal was denied

Reading the ruling on Wednesday, the court found that the woman’s appeal was “manifestly unfounded” but did not clarify on what grounds the defendant had appealed the sentence.Displaced Yazidi women protest outside the headquarters of the UN Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), north of Baghdad, in 2015. (credit: AZAD LASHKARI/REUTERS)

In the original 2021 trial, Jessica W. had first been given a 10-year sentence, but given the severity of the crimes against humanity, that sentence was increased.

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Nanticoke

HS ROUNDUP: Nanticoke Area volleyball opens with win

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Post date March 21, 2024
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Steelman Partners Creates Mohegan’s Inaugural Asian Resort

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Post date March 21, 2024
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Inspire Korea brings Las Vegas’s influence to the global market

LAS VEGAS, March 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Local architect agency Steelman Partners, who designed both Circa and Resorts World and was led by Paul Steelman, celebrated the opening of Inspire Korea on March 5. Steelman Partners was contracted in 2018 to be the resort’s Design Architect. Inspire Korea is the largest privately funded construction project in Korea.

Steelman Partners Creates Mohegan’s Inaugural Asian Resort – Celebrated Grand Opening March 5 Steelman Partners Creates Mohegan’s Inaugural Asian Resort – Celebrated Grand Opening March 5

“Creating Mohegan’s inaugural Asian Resort, Inspire, was a delight, drawing upon the design ethos of Mohegan Sun, a prominent figure in Integrated Entertainment Resort development. Embracing this opportunity, our team focused on blending cultural authenticity with luxurious amenities,” says Steelman. “We aimed to transport guests into an immersive Asian experience featuring opulent accommodations, exquisite dining options, and captivating entertainment. Meticulously creating spaces and cutting-edge technology further elevated the guest experience. This endeavor marked a milestone for Mohegan and represented a commitment to innovation and cultural appreciation in resort development.”

Paul explained, “The resort’s development has been collaborative, with Steelman Partners (from Las Vegas) handling the conceptual architecture and our team serving as the interior designers for critical areas such as Aurora and Splash Bay. Additionally, Jeffrey Beers from New York contributed his expertise as an interior designer for another portion of the interiors. It’s been an incredible journey working alongside a diverse group of architects, designers, and engineers from Korea who have brought their unique perspectives and talents to the project.”

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Lenni Lenape

Letter That Recorded ‘Sale’ of Manhattan for $24  on View at New-York Historical Society

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Post date March 21, 2024
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A nearly 400-year-old letter that documents the mythologized ‘purchase’ of the island of Manhattan from the Indigenous peoples who inhabited it is on view now through July 14, at the New-York Historical Society.

Written by Dutch government official Pieter Schagen, the letter notes “our people…have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders.” A 19th century historian converted the 60 guilders into dollars, which gave rise to the popular belief that the Dutch bought Manhattan for $24. The letter, on loan from the Dutch National Archives in the Hague, where it is not on public display, is the only record that exists of that ‘purchase’ which was later followed by similar transactions by which Europeans took control of the continent of North America from its Native inhabitants.

In response to the display of the letter, leaders of the Lenape people have issued a public reflection on the land transfer including this excerpt:

THIS DAY, we look at that historical letter with no wampum or treaty attached, saying the island of Manahahtáanung was purchased for 60 guilders. Ancestor, who could have known that a Dutch colonizer’s written words and 60 guilders would bring 400 years of devastation, disease, war, forced removal, oppression, murder, division, suicide, and generational trauma for your Lenape people?

Russell Shorto, an expert on Dutch New York and author of the book The Island at the Center of the World, has brought the letter to New York as part of a special exhibit he has curated – New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam – on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the Dutch founding of a colony that would give rise to New York City.

“Assembling the artifacts from four centuries ago was a delight, but working with the Lenape chiefs…

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Munsee

Bard College Presents Returning Home: A Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition, on View April 6–12 at Montgomery Place Mansion

Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck and Montgomery Place Mansion at Bard College proudly hosts Returning Home, an exhibition curated by Rethinking Place Post-Baccalaureate Fellow Olivia Tencer ’22 and Rethinking Place Administrative Coordinator Melina Roise ’21, open from April 6 to 12, 2024. This groundbreaking exhibition features works by four contemporary Indigenous photographers, Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena/Jewish), Dana Claxton (Wood Mountain Lakota First Nations), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi Indian Tribe), and Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke (Crow)), along with a written commission by Bonney Hartley (Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican) and archival records of local land transfers and the United States’ Indian boarding school history. The exhibition, centered around narratives of Indigenous families, particularly women and children, will delve into the experiences of Native peoples facing settler colonialism, focusing specifically on Indigenous child removal practices and policies.

Returning Home aims to highlight Indigenous representation, narrative, survivance, futurism, and resilience through contemporary Native art. The show will include pieces from the Forge Project’s collection, as well as a written commission from Bonney Hartley, who is an MFA candidate at Institute of American Indian Arts. An accompanying publication will provide in-depth contextualization of land dispossession in the United States, forced removal of Native peoples in New York State, and the impact of Indian boarding schools.

The exhibition will fill various rooms within the historic Montgomery Place mansion, situated on Bard College’s 380-acre estate. While the estate is renowned for its ties to the Livingston family, Montgomery Place is committed to exploring marginalized histories, including the forced removal of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community and the estate’s use of enslaved African American labor.

On the exhibition, Tencer writes: “This will be the first exhibition in the mansion, and the first…

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Nanticoke

Downtown Nanticoke getting new light poles when $2.5M streetscape project resumes in April

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Post date March 20, 2024
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Mohegan Inspire to reach profitability in three years, analysts say

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Post date March 20, 2024
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Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort could outpace rivals, according to CBRE.

South Korea.- CBRE Capital Advisors has forecast that the Mohegan INSPIRE Entertainment Resort, the recently launched casino complex in South Korea, will achieve positive cash flow within its first three years of operation. The resort had a soft opening in November and launched gaming on February 3. It was the first time in almost two decades that a new foreigner-only casino has opened in South Korea.

CBRE analysts Colin Mansfield and Connor Parks foresee a mature annual EBITDA of approximately US$150m with robust margins and debt service coverage in its ramp-up phase. They said the project has access to an estimated US$179m in cash as of December 31, 2023, earmarked for construction payables and preopening expenses.

The report says the casino could have a faster ramp-up than its competitor, Paradise City, due to a less phased opening and a wide range of non-gaming amenities. Analysts believe that Mohegan Inspire can outperform Paradise City because of its greater focus on slots and larger room base. The report expects the average win-per-unit-per-day to be in line with the average in Asia, except for Macau and Singapore, which far exceed casinos in South Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, and Cambodia.

The casino has over 150 table games, 390 slot machines, and 160 electronic table games (ETG). It has a floor for VIP guests featuring a Guandong-style restaurant. Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment (MGE) posted net revenue of US$425.2m for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2023-2024, up 4.6 per cent compared to the previous quarter.

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Unami Skincare launches new products

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Post date March 20, 2024
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Press Releases of Tuesday, 19 March 2024

Source: Unami Skincare

2024-03-19

Unami Skincare has officially launched a new line of all-natural skincare products

Unami Skincare, formerly known as Nutty Cosmetics, has officially launched a new line of all-natural skincare products.

The company was founded by a US based Ghanaian entrepreneur whose grandmother used to sell shea butter for a living.

Through her grandmother’s shea butter business, her mother, siblings, and herself had the privilege of traveling to America and becoming citizens of America.

Her mother’s story about how her grandmother was able to sell tubs of shea butter, coconut milk, and Kente (an expensive and traditional Ghanaian cloth) to pay for their education inspired her to start her own shea butter business.

With the introduction of her entirely new line of natural skincare products, namely:

– Nutty Peach

– Masked Up

– Lemongrass + Lavender Body Oil

– Sweet Nilla

– Tropical Mango

BODY SCRUBS

– Soft Nyash

– I’m That Girl

– It’s Giving

– No Wahala

Josephine Cerwaa Bonsu, CEO of Unami Skincare and a Rutgers University graduate, is also involved in building infrastructure for women who manufacture shea and black soap in Ghana, which has served as a source of motivation for her success in business. She believes that this has helped her grow professionally and personally because giving up would imply giving up on them.

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Lenni Lenape

Heart of New York/ Did Manhattan really sell for just $24?

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Post date March 20, 2024
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History is full of reckless sales and sensational deals. According to legend, one of the most famous took place in Manhattan, when the natives of the island sold it to the Dutch for a handful of beads and the equivalent of $24 in dry money.

But did that really happen? Maybe no. When European settlers arrived in the Hudson River region, the area was long inhabited by the indigenous Lenape people, who called the green island along the Hudson River Manahatta, or “hill island.”

The Lenape, who spoke an Algonquian language and traded with a variety of other Native American peoples, lived at a certain season of the year on this resource-rich, animal-rich island. And it was the animals, especially beavers, that attracted the attention of the first Europeans who encountered the Lenape people in Manhattan beginning in the 1500s.

In fact, the biggest attraction to North America for the first Europeans had to do with the skins of these animals, which were used to produce the most fashionable hats and many luxury items for European consumers. This is also because the Europeans had hunted so many animals on their continent that their numbers had reached the point of extermination.

Attracted by the abundant beaver furs, Dutch traders began trading with the Lenape people, and soon claimed control of lands stretching from present-day Delaware to Rhode Island on behalf of the Dutch West India Company, which established monopoly on transatlantic trade.

The company established “New Netherland” in 1621, extending Dutch rule to the Hudson River region. In 1624, the Dutch had begun to live in Manhatta, later called Manhattan, in a settlement called New Amsterdam.

The charter of the Dutch West India Company allowed its members to enter into contracts with the “princes and natives” of the region, exchanging…

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