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Miami Herald
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- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Stray dog lived off scraps from grocery store workers. Now sweet pup needs home
A stray dog once lived off food scraps — and now, the 'silly' pup needs a home. 'Adonis (aka Doni) is the definition of a gentle soul with a goofy streak,' a Florida animal rescue wrote June 7 in a Facebook post. 'Picked up as a stray in a rural area of Northwest Florida, this handsome boy had been fending for himself and relying on kind Piggly Wiggly grocery store employees for scraps.' Eventually, Doni went to a shelter but was never claimed. He was in rough shape when he was transferred to Northwest Florida Great Dane Rescue in April, the animal organization wrote on social media and in an email to McClatchy News. 'When Doni came to us, he was severely underweight, covered in fleas and ticks, and sadly, heartworm positive,' rescuers wrote. 'He's now safe, receiving treatment, and thriving in his foster home — and we're ready to find the loving forever family he was always meant for.' Doni is described as a roughly 1- or 2-year-old pup who 'doesn't quite understand his size,' bumping into people as he seeks affection. He's known for being 'sweet and sometimes clumsy,' so he may do best in a home with older kids who are accustomed to living with dogs. 'Doni is discovering the magic of the couch, and he's definitely a 'Velcro Dane' — he wants to be right where the love is,' rescuers wrote. 'He's a messy eater and drinks like a horse, so be ready for splashes and crumbs. A slow feeder bowl is non-negotiable — this guy inhales his food!' As of June 10, Doni was up for adoption, Katie King, vice president of the rescue, wrote in the email. While the pup waits for a new owner, he's living with a foster family in Panama City, in the Florida Panhandle. 'Doni is looking for a forever home with patience, love, and preferably another dog to keep him company and help him burn off his energy,' the animal organization wrote. 'He's a diamond in the rough who will shine bright with the right family.' Details about the rescue's adoption process can be found at
Hamilton Spectator
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
Beach party: Psych-rock band had its beginnings in McMaster University basement
The year is 2011. Tuesday nights were the best times for Tony Doni and his school friend Gabriel Bitti to go into the basement of McMaster University's Togo Salmon Hall to make music. 'The next room over would be someone actually practising something and we'd be playing as loud as possible, essentially like drum-and-bass, hard-style electronic music,' said Doni. 'It makes for an interesting environment.' More than a decade later, the two play in the three-person band, The Beach Bats. When Doni and Bitti met, they had a mutual connection — both were in the university's music program, with Doni in classical music and Bitti in percussion. With Doni on the bass and Bitti on the drums, the two would spend hours in the empty school's practice area, showing up in the late hours of the night. 'We'd emerge from the basement having just played for hours and it's like, 'Oh, now it's four in the morning' without realizing that that much time had gone by,' he said. The jam sessions were defined by their playful and experimental nature, the two bouncing ideas off each other. Despite their long-standing friendship and musical alignment, the pair didn't join forces in The Beach Bats until 2018, when Bitti joined the duet. The same goes for Doni and Chelsea White, who played together for about six years before forming the band after meeting through White's brother. Doni went to St. John Henry Newman Catholic Secondary School in Stoney Creek and White went to Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School in the east end. 'I brought a lot of musicians that I knew from high school into a band and (White) into that group of friends as well,' said Doni. 'These are still the people I play with.' While the band's music can be described as alternative psychedelic rock, the experimental essence of making music in university remains. You can hear their most recent project, 'Limbo,' at The Bright Room in The Staircase Theatre and Lounge on Saturday, May 17, starting at 8 p.m. Here are some other events happening in Hamilton in the next week: On Saturday, May 17, The Bright Room will host a show with a variety of musical acts, from the prog, surf psych The Beach Bats, rock band The Rooster, jazz, alternative psychedelic rock Junestone and indie punk Evening Stock. It's on the second floor of The Staircase Theatre ( 27 Dundurn St. N., Hamilton ), with doors opening at 7:30 p.m. and the show starting at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 or pay what you can. Enter The Bright Room through the back of the building. For more details, go to . The Kevin Breit Trio will perform its jazz and funk at The Capitol Bar ( 973 King St. E. ) for the first time on Friday, May 17 from 1 to 4 p.m. Doors open at noon. Tickets are $22.63 on . The Resignators will play Vertagogo ( 1385 Main St. E, Hamilton ), alongside other bands from 2 to 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 17. Tickets are $15 or pay what you can. For more information, go to . Later in the day, The Braindead Tour will hit the stage with several bands at the venue, starting at 8 p.m. The Jackson Square bar will host its next karaoke night on Wednesday, May 21 from 6 to 10 p.m., covering their 5-8 p.m. happy hour. Enjoy half-priced appetizers while singing your heart out. The 120 King St. W. venue hosts karaoke nights every Wednesday. Jamaican dance hall artist Armanii will be at the Zen Lounge on Sunday, May 18 from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Tickets are $40 on . The lounge is located at 69 John St. S., Hamilton . Music bingo will run on Wednesday, May 21 from 7 to 9 p.m. The event happens every Wednesday and admission is free. Cheyenne Bholla is a reporter at The Hamilton Spectator. cbholla@
Arab News
09-03-2025
- Business
- Arab News
Women investors await Pakistan-IMF talk results to decide on stock investments
KARACHI: Woman investors in Pakistan are 'cautiously' looking at the country's ongoing talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and will buy more shares in companies listed on the bourse, if the negotiations succeed. Woman investors in Pakistan's commercial capital of Karachi hope that Islamabad's negotiations with the global lender for a review of its $7 billion program would end on a positive note, thus allowing the market sentiments to boost. The Washington-based lender has sent a team of experts, led by Nathan Porter, to see if the South Asian nation is complying with the conditions it has set under its reforms-oriented extended fund facility (EFF). A successful review would not only lead to the release of about $1 billion to cash-strapped Pakistan, but also open new avenues for investors who have been buying and selling company shares at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). 'I will be putting more money into the stock market for sure and I would be advising my clients to do the same,' said Saniya Bilal Doni, a 33-year-old CFA charter holder who has been actively investing in Pakistan's stocks, real estate and gold markets for the last four years. The mother of two holds a finance degree from the University of Toronto and prefers to make long-term, dividend-based investments in what she called 'well performing' banking, real estate, fertilizers and technology stocks that make her portfolio keep growing. Doni though did not quote any numbers to show how big her investment portfolio is. Having worked for various asset management funds in Canada and Abu Dhabi after completing her graduation in 2013, Doni now is managing her family's portfolio as well as advising high net-worth individuals on how they should manage their investment portfolios. She expects more money to come into Pakistan's economy as a result of a successful IMF review that would help the stocks market increase more. 'All the stocks should technically go up. Yes, that has an impact because as an economy we are unfortunately dependent on IMF's funding,' she said. 'I am paying attention to all of that, especially as I, you know, make changes to the portfolio, if any, and also if I advise clients.' Inflation-hit Pakistan has about 350,000 registered individuals who invest in stocks, according to Najeeb Ahmed Khan Warsi, head of online trading at Foundation Securities Ltd. This number looks dismal given the fact that Pakistan is the world's fifth most populous nation, with more than 240 million people. The number of woman investors at 5 percent is even negligible. Like others, these woman investors are also concerned about the outcome of Pakistan's talks with the IMF, which usually take a couple of weeks to conclude. 'As an investor I am very cautious at the moment. I am holding on to my stocks. I am holding on to my investments. I am very careful with that,' said Isra Ghous Rasool, a 22-year-old business management student who bought some Shariah-complaint stocks a year and half ago to prove that women too can invest in stocks. Pakistan's central bank has almost halved the interest rates to 12 percent since June last year and made the booming stocks market an attractive place for investors like Doni and Rasool. The stock gauge KSE-100 Index almost doubled last year and gained 87 percent in US dollars terms to make Pakistan one of the world's best performing markets. Women like Doni and Rasool think that being investors makes them financially independent and empowered enough to have more control over their finances and choices without depending on their male relatives. 'I have a better relationship with money. I am able to dictate what I want in life and be able to actually pay for it,' said Doni, who sees another rate cut coming on March 10 when Pakistan's central bank is scheduled to revise the borrowing rate. 'I am definitely looking for more opportunities in the stock market.' Doni thinks investments help people hedge inflation which though now has eased to a single digit, but was seen peaking to 38 percent in May 2023. Despite such good examples, Pakistan remains a male-dominated society where women tend to stay away from financial markets and use traditional saving methods like running committees. Maham Alavi, a 40-year-old Pakistani brand manager, is running an all-women group of investors on Facebook from the Saudi capital Riyadh for the past decade. Her Facebook group, Women Investment Forum, has now expanded to 15,000 members, about half of them being confident investors or analysts working in different fields in and outside Pakistan. Alavi herself vets all the Facebook profiles to avoid an online scam. 'I started this group in Sep 2016 with the intent to learn myself and gather as many women as I could because the PSX had always been a male-dominated field in Pakistan,' she told Arab News from Riyadh. Women Investment Forum is an educational group and does not tell its members where to invest or what to buy. 'That is their decision to make. We try to empower them so they can make decisions themselves,' said Alavi, a mother of two. Pakistan's stock exchange also organizes workshops and awareness sessions to promote financial literacy among women that makes them financially independent. One such event is being organized by the PSX on March 10 in Karachi to celebrate the International Women's Day. Both Doni and Rasool are equally critical of the prevailing political uncertainty in the country that by and large keeps investor sentiments dampened in Pakistan. Pakistan is facing a political crisis since April 2022, when prime minister Imran Khan was ousted from power through a parliamentary no-trust vote. Khan remains in jail and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party keeps agitating on roads across Pakistan demanding the release of its political prisoners, including Khan. 'Political noise does play a huge role and whenever I'm trying to, you know, encourage, overseas Pakistanis to invest into Pakistani stock market or, you know, real estate, this is their number one concern,' said Doni, while sitting in her home office in Karachi's Clifton area. Rasool said political uncertainty has a huge impact on stock fundamentals. Recalling how the stock market had reacted to the arrest of Khan, she said a lot of stocks were oversold and a lot of investors had opted for selling their holdings in panic. In their Women's Day message, Alavi, Doni and Rasool said women, who make up half of Pakistan's total population, should at least start learning about making investments in stocks for long-term gains. 'The IMF guys are right now in the country, so things are on the upward trajectory. If you're still on the fence, on the sidelines, at least equip yourself with the right knowledge,' Doni urged.
