All posts tagged: gold

The Dirty Gold Rush | Vanessa Ogle

The Dirty Gold Rush | Vanessa Ogle

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Gold just ended a banner year. Its price rose 27 percent in 2024, closing at $2,617 per ounce. Only the Nasdaq Composite index, fueled by reliably strong performances from the so-called Magnificent Seven tech giants, did better, at 31 percent. (The S&P 500 improved 25 percent.) This was gold’s best showing since 2010, when prices increased 29 percent, though over the last twenty-five years gains have been nearly unrelenting. According to analysts at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup, the rally won’t end here. They project gold to reach a historic $3,000 per troy ounce in 2025. All this has baffled market observers. Unlike other investments, gold does not yield interest but rather only accrues price-related gains. This is why investors hold the metal when other choices stand to deliver little profit, like in a low-interest environment. But rates have been anything but low in recent years. So what is driving these increases? Part of the answer is that central banks across the world have been on a buying spree. According to The Economist, gold now comprises 11 percent …

Mama Tried | Hannah Gold

Mama Tried | Hannah Gold

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Every Kenneth Lonergan production is, at its center, a story of nihilism resisted or indulged. Usually the characters engaged in these struggles haven’t yet made it out of their twenties. In his breakout play, This Is Our Youth (1996), about newly minted high school graduates wallowing around the Upper West Side, nineteen-year-old Jessica Goldman flirts at once with her crush and with the void. The fact that people change, sometimes dramatically, as they age distresses her to no end. “It just basically invalidates whoever you are right now,” she tells her love interest, local fuckup Warren Straub. “It just makes your whole self at any given point in your life seem so completely dismissable. So it’s like, what’s the point?” Lonergan gave himself a bit part in his first feature film, You Can Count on Me (2000), as a chill small-town priest named Ron who makes house calls in a plaid shirt. Dropping in one day on aimless, troublemaking Terry (Mark Ruffalo), at the behest of his concerned older sister (Laura Linney), Ron urges the faithless young man not …

2024 Teaching Awards gold winners revealed

2024 Teaching Awards gold winners revealed

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More from this theme Recent articles Sixteen teachers, leaders, schools, and colleges have been honoured for excellence in education at the 2024 Pearson National Teaching Awards. Dubbed “the Oscars of the teaching profession,” eight ‘gold awards’ were announced for the first time on Saturday at a glitzy ceremony in London, with the rest revealed during the week on the BBC’s The One Show and in The Sunday Times. Categories awarded individuals and institutions from early years, primary, secondary and further education that go above and beyond for their learners, having a lasting impact on their lives, on the profession and in their local communities.  Judges selected the winners from thousands of nominations, revealing shortlisted ‘silver award’ winners in June. Education secretary Bridget Phillipson said: “I want to congratulate all the winners – your unwavering support and dedication to children and young people, giving them the chance to achieve their ambitions and thrive in the process, is hugely inspirational and deserves celebration.” Sharon Hague, managing director of school assessment and qualifications at Pearson UK, added: “It is an honour and a privilege to …

Florida Authorities Recover 37 Gold Coins Stolen From 1715 Fleet Shipwrecks

Florida Authorities Recover 37 Gold Coins Stolen From 1715 Fleet Shipwrecks

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Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Florida authorities have recovered 37 gold coins worth more than $1 million that were stolen from the 1715 Fleet shipwrecks, the state’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said on Nov. 26. The FWC said the gold coin recovery marked “a major milestone” in a years-long investigation into the theft and illegal trafficking of historical artifacts. The gold coins were initially found by contracted salvage operators for the 1715 Fleet—comprising Spanish ships that sank in a hurricane off Florida’s coast in 1715—off Florida’s Treasure Coast in 2015. There were 101 gold coins found from the wreckages, but only 51 of them were reported and adjudicated, while the remaining gold coins were not disclosed and were later stolen, the FWC said in a statement. FWC investigators launched a probe with the FBI after new evidence came to light in June this year, leading to the arrest of Eric Schmitt, whose family had been contracted to salvage the centuries-old fleet. Schmitt was connected to the illegal sale of stolen …

What makes an Italian? An olympic gold medal and a vandalised mural reopen debate about race and citizenship

What makes an Italian? An olympic gold medal and a vandalised mural reopen debate about race and citizenship

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When Paola Egonu, born in Italy to Nigerian parents, won a gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympic games volleyball tournament, a dormant discussion in Italian politics was reignited. Egonu only [became an Italian citizen at the age of 14], after her father naturalised as Italian. Now a national hero, many felt her story should have been different and that the pathway to Italian citizenship should be made easier for the children of immigrants. After her win, a mural depicting Egonu performing her signature strike appeared outside the office of the Italian Olympic Committee. The artist gave it the title “Italianness”. Within 24 hours someone had painted over Paola’s skin with pink paint, leaving the title untouched. Such racist abuse hides a much harder question Italians have been grappling with for three decades: what makes someone Italian? The vandalised mural of Egonu. EPA This is not the first time a sports event has forced Italians to confront Italy’s inadequate citizenship law. When, in 2020, 14-year-old Great Nnachi made the highest ever pole-vaulting jump in the …

Paralympics Photo of the Day: Tears of Gold

Paralympics Photo of the Day: Tears of Gold

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Franck Fife / AFP / Getty Gold medalist Nicholas Bennett of Team Canada celebrates during the victory ceremony for the men’s SB14 100-meter breaststroke final event at the Paris La Defense Arena in Nanterre, France, on September 2, 2024. The SB14 classification is for swimmers with an intellectual impairment. Bennett, who is autistic, won his second medal of the games, and Team Canada’s first gold medal of the 2024 Paralympic games. Previously: September 1: The Hazards of Blind Football August 31: A Para-archer Lines Up a Shot August 30: A Long Jumper With Wings August 29: A Perilous Challenge August 28: A Flying Cauldron Source link

Paralympic Games: Three French athletes on their arduous journey to gold

Paralympic Games: Three French athletes on their arduous journey to gold

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The Paralympics kick off this Wednesday in Paris and to mark the opening of the Games, our reporters went to meet the French athletes who have brought home gold medals from previous editions of the event. They tell us about the challenges they faced, the obstacles they overcame and their hopes for the 2024 Paralympics. FRANCE 24’s David Gilberg and Aurore Dupuis report. Source link

Did the Holy Spirit anoint the women’s shot put Gold medal winner at the Paris Olympics? – OpentheWord.org

Did the Holy Spirit anoint the women’s shot put Gold medal winner at the Paris Olympics? – OpentheWord.org

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Yemisi Ogunleye at 2022 shot put eventCredit: Steffen Prößdorf, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Throughout the Old Testament, there were times when people were endued with special Holy Spirit anointing to perform specific tasks. At times, these seemed outside the domain typically associated with the Spirit’s anointing, such as prophecy and leadership. This included Bezalel, who worked on the Tabernacle of Moses, and was filled with “the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all craftsmanship;” (Exodus 35:31). In this instance, he was anointed for a specific task. Samson was also anointed with amazing strength by the Holy Spirit. We read of his encounter with a lion when, “the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, so that he tore it apart as one tears apart a young goat, though he had nothing in his hand; but he did not tell his father or mother what he had done” (Judges 14:6 NASV). In Samson’s case, there were times when this anointing lifted, and he would lose this ability (Judges 16:20), revealing that …

Olympics Photo of the Day: One Step Closer to Gold

Olympics Photo of the Day: One Step Closer to Gold

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Kadir Caliskan / United World Wrestling / Getty Kotaro Kiyooka of Japan celebrates winning against Tulga Tumur Ochir of Mongolia in the Olympic men’s freestyle 65-kg wrestling semifinal on August 10, 2024, in Paris. Kiyooka advances to the gold-medal match on August 11, against Iran’s Rahman Amouzadkhalili. Previously: August 9: Sha’Carri Richardson secures gold for Team USA August 8: British sport climber Molly Thompson-Smith hangs on by her fingertips August 7: Spain’s Maria Perez wins a gold medal August 6: Artistic swimmers from France show their other faces August 5: Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles bow down to Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade Source link

French swimmer Marchand wins gold with Olympic record in men’s 400-metre medley

French swimmer Marchand wins gold with Olympic record in men’s 400-metre medley

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France’s Léon Marchand won a gold medal and set an Olympic record in the men’s 400-metre individual medley at the Paris Games on Sunday, pulling away from his rivals as thousands of fans at La Defense Arena chanted his name. Issued on: 28/07/2024 – 21:47 3 min With a flag-waving crowd cheering his every stroke, Léon Marchand delivered a swimming gold for France with a dominating victory in the men’s 400-meter individual medley Sunday night. Marchand was ahead as soon as his head popped from the water and he steadily pulled away from the field in what was essentially two separate races: Marchand racing the clock and everyone else competing for silver and bronze. He was under world-record pace on the final turn but faded a bit coming home, touching in 4 minutes, 2.95 seconds — an Olympic record, but just shy of his own world mark of 4:02.50. Marchand claimed that mark at last year’s world championships in Fukuoka, Japan, erasing a record held by Michael Phelps for 15 years. Not surprisingly, the young …