Camila Rojas, Author at No cure Magazine

Prosecutors Say Shohei Ohtani’s Interpreter Stole Million From Star

23 May

Prosecutors Say Shohei Ohtani’s Interpreter Stole $16 Million From Star

Camila RojasCiencia y Tecnología

Associated media - Related media The case is a very public example of the fine line sports leagues are walking in regard to sports gambling. Professional leagues resisted any association with gambling for decades, but that has changed since a Supreme Court ruling six years ago led to 38 states now allowing legalized gambling on sports. (California is not one of them.) Now leagues are taking millions of dollars from casinos and sports books, and advertisements from sports gambling companies are ubiquitous in stadiums and on game broadcasts. Still, the leagues worry about protecting the integrity of their games, and…

22 May

Trump Calls ‘Apprentice’ Biopic at Cannes ‘Garbage’ and Plans to Sue

Camila RojasInversiones y negocios

Linked media - Associated media The day after the Cannes Film Festival premiered “The Apprentice,” a biopic of Donald J. Trump, the former president hit back at the movie, calling it “malicious defamation” and threatening legal action. “This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked,” said Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the Trump campaign. Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by the author Gabriel Sherman, “The Apprentice” follows Trump (Sebastian Stan) as an ambitious young man seeking to establish himself as a real estate magnate. He finds a mentor in the wily lawyer Roy Cohn…

22 May

Lead in Beethoven’s Hair Offers New Clues to Mystery of His Deafness

Camila RojasSalud

Connected media - Associated media As he lay on his deathbed, his publisher gave him a gift of 12 bottles of wine. By then Beethoven knew he could never drink them. He whispered his last recorded words: “Pity, pity — too late!” For a composer, deafness had been perhaps the worst affliction. At age 30, 26 years before his death, Beethoven wrote: “For almost 2 years I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people: I am deaf. If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with…

22 May

As the U.K. Tries Moving Asylum Seekers Offshore, Ireland Pushes Back

Camila RojasInversiones y negocios

Connected media - Associated media After years of friction, Mr. Sunak last year struck a deal with the European Union, known as the Windsor Framework, which finally seemed to defuse the issue. But Britain’s abrupt cancellation on Sunday of a meeting between its home secretary, James Cleverly, and Ireland’s minister for justice, Helen McEntee, added to the sense of a fresh diplomatic crisis. A meeting of lower-level British and Irish officials produced only a vague agreement to “monitor this issue closely.” “It’s something that needs to be solved, and I don’t see any easy solution,” said Bobby McDonagh, a former…

22 May

Former N.H.L. Player Faces Sexual Assault Charges in Canada

Camila RojasInversiones y negocios

Linked media - Related media The allegation of a sexual assault was reported to the police in 2018, when the players were members of Canada’s national junior team, and it has created an enormous firestorm over the years, even in a sport with a long history of similar accusations. It led to a clean sweep of the board and leadership of Hockey Canada, the sport’s national governing body, provoked an exodus of sponsors, cut off government funding for the sport, spurred a parliamentary inquiry and prompted scathing rebukes from the public and from political figures, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.…