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SLOWLY shaking her head with disgust, Birhan Woldu is seething that her beloved Band Aid has come under attack. “That song helped keep me and thousands of others alive,” said the mother of two, with the grace and poise of an Ethiopian princess. Speaking to me at her rented apartment in the highlands of Tigray, Birhan is naturally protective over the 40-year-old pop song that has proved a constant milestone in her life. And the 43-year-old is also quick to defend the 1970s punk rocker whose sense of injustice created a social movement that defined a generation. Sir Bob Geldof calls Birhan “the daughter of Band Aid”. She considers him a second father. READ MORE ON BAND AID As a starving child, her image in a TV report helped alert the world to the tragedy unfolding in Africa . Today — 40 years after she almost perished in Ethiopia’s biblical famine — she has a heartfelt message for the Boomtown Rats frontman. Speaking down the lens of Sun man Louis Wood’s video camera, she told Geldof: “Hello my dad, how are you? I’d like to meet you again. “I need to introduce my husband and kiddies to you one day. Most read in The Sun “I hope we will meet again. I love you. Thank you, Bob.” As for the notion that the re-released Do They Know It’s Christmas? is tarnishing Africa’s image, she says of critics: “They are very wrong. “It’s a misunderstanding, misconception, a misrepresentation of Bob Geldof’s work. It’s not true. “I know the truth. Band Aid’s money has helped fund schools and hospitals. It’s very important for Tigray, Ethiopia and Africa.” ‘Hard nuts were crying’ Shortly after meeting Birhan on the day the new Band Aid single was released, my phone rings with an unmistakable Dublin accent on the other end. Some 3,700 miles away, Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof, 73, is about to go on BBC’s The One Show to push the latest remixed incarnation of Do They Know It’s Christmas? “Birhan is what Band Aid’s all about,” he told me. Hello my dad, how are you? I’d like to meet you again. I need to introduce my husband and kiddies to you one day. I hope we will meet again. I love you. Thank you, Bob The first time Geldof met Birhan was in a meeting engineered by The Sun in Ethiopia in 2004. Recalling our suggestion that Do They Know It’s Christmas? should be re-released that year, he said now: “I was tired. I told you, ‘If you f***ing organise it, I’ll do’.” So The Sun’s then-editor Dominic Mohan got Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Fran Healy from Travis on board and it was a goer. The 2024 version is a mash-up of the four previous incarnations of the song — including 2004’s rendition — remixed by producer Trevor Horn. As Geldof enthused when he told Live Aid viewers to “give us your f***in’ money” in 1985, he tells me: “The new version is really fantastic, absolutely beautiful. “ Zoe Ball was sobbing when she played it on Radio 2. She had to stop and put on another track. “All the f***ing hard nuts in the control room, I swear to you, they were crying. Trevor Horn has made this scrap of a song a work of art.” Not everyone agrees. Ed Sheeran said he would not have allowed his vocals from the 2014 version to be used had permission been sought. Geldof’s 1984 lyrics have come under intense scrutiny. It’s a f***ing pop song, not a doctoral thesis Sheeran endorsed a statement by British-Ghanaian rapper Fuse ODG who blamed Band Aid for “perpetuating damaging stereotypes” of Africa and “destroying” the continent’s “dignity, pride and identity”. But Geldof’s having none of it, telling me: “It’s a f***ing pop song, not a doctoral thesis.” Meanwhile, in her neat living room, Birhan performs Ethiopia’s coffee ceremony for us with daughters Claire, 13, and ten-year-old Ariam handing out popcorn. Her dad Woldu, 73, and husband Birhane, 43, proudly look on from the sofa. Incense is burned, mingling with the aroma of the roasting coffee beans. Dressed in a traditional white embroidered dress and shawl, Birhan looks back on an astonishing life. Born into this world on a dried ox skin splayed across the earthen floor of a mud-walled hut, she would go on to greet Madonna on the Live 8 stage in 2005 watched by billions around the world. Along the way she has met Brad Pitt , the Beckhams and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Both her and Geldof’s lives are inextricably entangled with Band Aid. Bob was determined to do something after seeing BBC correspondent Michael Buerk’s harrowing 1984 reports from Ethiopia of thousands starving in a “hell on Earth”. Among the suffering masses, Birhan — stick-thin with her forlorn milky eyes rolling back into her head — was filmed apparently dying by a Canadian CBC film crew led by Brian Stewart. Her dad Woldu remembers: “Birhan was dying in my hands. I didn’t notice people were filming me.” A ragged funeral shroud had been laid out for three-year-old Birhan and her grave had already been dug at a clinic run by nuns on the outskirts of Tigrayan capital Mekele. Yet, by some miracle, her pulse returned and she survived. The CBC crew later returned to the clinic and to their amazement found Birhan alive. Today, she has little memory of famine times, saying: “Just to see my picture from then is upsetting.” Her mother Alemetsehay and big sister Azmera perished in the famine. Back in Britain, Geldof had rallied 80s pop and rock royalty — including Bono , Sting and Boy George — to sing his lyrics which Ultravox’s Midge Ure had put to music. The catchy pop record captured a public mood. Some bought boxes of the single to send as Christmas cards. Others bought 50 copies, kept one and put the others back. Geldof told me on Monday: “The bloke driving me around to all the studios today is a Serbian called Vlad. “He was watching Live Aid as a 21-year-old and thought Britain was so amazing, so exciting, that he just left his home and came here.” ‘Happy and healthy’ At the Wembley Stadium Live Aid concert the following summer in 1985, CBC’s desolate footage of starving Birhan was played on the big screens with The Cars’ haunting track Drive. The camera lingered on Birhan’s apparent final moments on Earth. It was the centrepiece of the gig watched on 85 per cent of the world’s TVs. After her unwitting brush with fame, Birhan carried on with her life, herding the family’s goats in the parched mountains of Tigray. Appearing on documentaries by CBC and the BBC , she studied plant science at college. Then in 2004, I travelled to Tigray and interviewed Birhan for a Band Aid anniversary piece. Geldof and Sir Tony Blair were in Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa for a conference at the same time. What would happen if The Sun arranged for the father of Band Aid to meet its daughter for the first time? When Bob and the then Prime Minister clapped eyes on her, they both appeared close to tears. Birhan presented Blair with a cross from Lalibela, Ethiopia’s holiest Christian site. Today she recalls: “He was very happy. He said he’d keep it at home. “Bob hugged me and called me his daughter.” Sun Editor Dominic had called me moments before the meeting with the idea to ask Bob if he would re-record the Band Aid song. Geldof gave his expletive-laden affirmative without missing a beat. The Sun then flew Birhan over for the London recording and then for the massive Live 8 concert. Backstage a host of celebrities queued up to meet her. Brad Pitt quietly introduced himself, as did a chatty David and Victoria Beckham. Then the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, said hello. At the time she did not realise who most of the famous faces were. But when Jeremy Clarkson ambled past at the Hyde Park, London, supergig she shrieked with recognition. Top Gear was hugely popular in Ethiopia. Back in Ethiopia, she married and had her two daughters. Her marriage would break down, while she had to put up with assumptions from some in her community that fame had brought her wealth. Then, in 2020, a civil war broke out in Tigray with widespread atrocities, including massacres of civilians and rape, in the following two years. It resulted in famine and starvation again stalking the land. Birhan recalled: “Artillery was often passing over our heads.” To support her family, Birhan sold coffee beans on the street. Some three years ago she met new husband Birhane while working for the World Food programme where he was a supervisor. Today Birhan says she’s “happy and healthy”. Now the woman who has been an inspiration to so many wants to start her own charity to help children with disabilities. To date, Band Aid Charitable Trust has raised almost £150million, with Geldof adding: “The song’s vigour after 40 years is astonishing. “An American newspaper said recently it’s probably the most powerful song ever written in rock and roll.” Birhan now hopes Do They Know It’s Christmas? will be a huge hit once more and that another Live 8-style concert will follow. “I want my daughters to come and see me take part,” the daughter of Band Aid says. READ MORE SUN STORIES “It would make me so proud.” In tomorrow’s paper: how band aid’s cash is still changing lives.PURCHASE, N.Y., Nov. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Townsquare Media, Inc. (NYSE: TSQ) (“Townsquare,” or the “Company”) announced today that Bill Wilson, Chief Executive Officer, Stuart Rosenstein, Chief Financial Officer, and Claire Yenicay, Executive Vice President, Investor Relations, will participate in upcoming investor conferences. BofA Securities Leveraged Finance Conference Bill Wilson, Stuart Rosenstein, and Claire Yenicay will present at BofA Securities’ Leveraged Finance Conference at The Boca Raton Hotel in Boca Raton, FL. on Tuesday, December 3, 2024 at 9:30 AM Eastern Time. Management will also be available for one-on-one and group meetings with investors. The presentation will be webcast live on the investor relations section of Townsquare’s website at www.townsquaremedia.com/equity-investors/events . Noble Investment Conference Stuart Rosenstein and Claire Yenicay will present at NobleCon20 - Noble Capital Markets’ Twentieth Annual Emerging Growth Equity Conference at Florida Atlantic University, Executive Education Complex, in Boca Raton, FL., on Wednesday, December 4, 2024 at 10:30 AM Eastern Time. Management will also be available for one-on-one and group meetings with investors. A high-definition video webcast of the presentation will be available the following day on the Company's website www.townsquaremedia.com/equity-investors/events , and as part of a complete catalog of presentations available at Noble Capital Markets’ Conference website: www.nobleconference.com and on Channelchek, www.channelchek.com , the investor portal created by Noble. The webcast will be archived on the Company's website, the NobleCon website, and on Channelchek.com for 90 days following the event. About Townsquare Media, Inc. 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The Friday, December 6 episode of AEW Rampage averaged 177,000 viewers on TNT, up 40.5 percent from the previous week (when the show aired on Saturday afternoon against WWE Survivor Series). It’s the second-lowest viewership total the show has ever done in its regular time slot. Rampage finished 25th on the prime time cable charts with a 0.04 rating in the 18-49 demo. That’s up 33.3 percent from last Saturday’s record low rating but is the lowest the show has ever done on a Friday night. The show went head-to-head with two conference championship college football games as well as an NBA game and two separate college basketball games. As compared to the same week in 2023, Rampage’s overall viewership was down 48.1 percent while its 18-49 rating was down 66.7 percent. Listed below are the last 11 weeks of overall viewership numbers and 18-49 demo ratings for Rampage, along with the 10-week average in both categories. This week’s show was down 19.2 percent in overall viewers and 42.9 percent in 18-49 as compared to the recent averages.Premier League managers slam the PGMOL amid David Coote scandal as Russell Martin demands ‘honesty’

By ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday reached a required agreement with President Joe Biden’s White House to allow his transition staff to coordinate with the existing federal workforce before taking office on Jan. 20. The congressionally mandated agreement allows transition aides to work with federal agencies and access non-public information and gives a green light to government workers to talk to the transition team. But Trump has declined to sign a separate agreement with the General Services Administration that would have given his team access to secure government offices and email accounts, in part because it would require that the president-elect limit contributions to $5,000 and reveal who is donating to his transition effort. The White House agreement was supposed to have been signed by Oct. 1, according to the Presidential Transition Act, and the Biden White House had issued both public and private appeals for Trump’s team to sign on. The agreement is a critical step in ensuring an orderly transfer of power at noon on Inauguration Day, and lays the groundwork for the White House and government agencies to begin to share details on ongoing programs, operations and threats. It limits the risk that the Trump team could find itself taking control of the massive federal government without briefings and documents from the outgoing administration. As part of the agreement with the White House, Trump’s team will have to publicly disclose its ethics plan for the transition operation and make a commitment to uphold it, the White House said. Transition aides must sign statements that they have no financial positions that could pose a conflict of interest before they receive access to non-public federal information. Biden himself raised the agreement with Trump when they met in the Oval Office on Nov. 13, according to the White House, and Trump indicated that his team was working to get it signed. Trump chief of staff-designate Susie Wiles met with Biden’s chief of staff Jeff Zients at the White House on Nov. 19 and other senior officials in part to discuss remaining holdups, while lawyers for the two sides have spoken more than a half-dozen times in recent days to finalize the agreement. “Like President Biden said to the American people from the Rose Garden and directly to President-elect Trump, he is committed to an orderly transition,” said White House spokesperson Saloni Sharma. “President-elect Trump and his team will be in seat on January 20 at 12 pm – and they will immediately be responsible for a range of domestic and global challenges, foreseen and unforeseen. A smooth transition is critical to the safety and security of the American people who are counting on their leaders to be responsible and prepared.” Without the signed agreement, Biden administration officials were restricted in what they could share with the incoming team. Trump national security adviser-designate Rep. Mike Waltz met recently with Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan, but the outgoing team was limited in what it could discuss. “We are doing everything that we can to effect a professional and an orderly transition,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday. “And we continue to urge the incoming team to take the steps that are necessary to be able to facilitate that on their end as well.” “This engagement allows our intended Cabinet nominees to begin critical preparations, including the deployment of landing teams to every department and agency, and complete the orderly transition of power,” said Wiles in a statement. The Trump transition team says it would disclose its donors to the public and would not take foreign donations. A separate agreement with the Department of Justice to coordinate background checks for vetting and security clearances is still being actively worked on and could be signed quickly now that the White House agreement is signed. The agency has teams of investigators standing by to process clearances for Trump aides and advisers once that document is signed. That would clear the way for transition aides and future administration appointees and nominees to begin accessing classified information before Trump takes office. Some Trump aides may hold active clearances from his first term in office or other government roles, but others will need new clearances to access classified data. Trump’s team on Friday formally told the GSA that they would not utilize the government office space blocks from the White House reserved for their use, or government email accounts, phones and computers during the transition. The White House said it does not agree with Trump’s decision to forgo support from the GSA, but is working on alternate ways to get Trump appointees the information they need without jeopardizing national security. Federal agencies are receiving guidance on Tuesday on how to share sensitive information with the Trump team without jeopardizing national security or non-public information. For instance, agencies may require in-person meetings and document reviews since the Trump team has declined to shift to using secure phones and computers. For unclassified information, agencies may ask Trump transition staff to attest that they are taking basic safeguards, like using two-factor authentication on their accounts. “The signing of this agreement is good news, and a positive step toward an effective transfer of power,” said Max Stier, the president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service. “This agreement unlocks direct access to information from federal agencies, which is vital for the incoming administration to be ready to govern on Day One and critical to the transition’s success.”How Trump’s bet on voters electing him managed to silence some of his legal woes

LOS ANGELES — Northern California is being drenched by the first major atmospheric river storm of the season, with rain totals reaching well over 7 inches in many areas, and continued rain on Thursday stretching the threat for flooding and mudslides. The slow-moving storm was strengthened by a so-called bomb cyclone, which describes how rapidly the system intensified in the Pacific before it moved ashore. By Friday, the rain will begin moving southward, and while forecasters are saying some rain is likely to hit Southern California by the weekend, it will be dramatically less than than what's been seen north of the Bay Area this week. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. Get the latest news, sports, weather and more delivered right to your inbox.

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