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Ole Miss was supposed to benefit from expanded CFP, but Florida loss is an all too familiar shortcoming - CBS SportsATLANTA — On Jan. 18 and 19 the AT&T Playoff Playlist Live! will be held at State Farm Arena in advance of the College Football Playoff national championship on Jan. 20. The star-studded lineup was announced Thursday at a news conference at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Performances will include Lil Wayne and GloRilla on Saturday; and Camila Cabello, Myles Smith and Knox on Sunday. On game day, the Allstate Championship Tailgate, taking place just outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium in the Home Depot Backyard, will feature country acts on the Capital One Music Stage, including global superstar Kane Brown and iHeartCountry “On The Verge” artist Ashley Cooke. The concerts are just two of the festivities visiting fans can enjoy in the days leading up to the big game. The fan experience for both ticket holders and the general public has been a focus for event planners. All weekend long, an estimated 100,000 people from across the country are expected to attend fan events preceding kickoff. “It will be an opportunity for fans of all ages to come together to sample what college football is all about, and you don’t have to have a ticket to the game to be a part of it,” said Bill Hancock, executive director of the CFP in a press release. “We’ve worked closely with the Atlanta Football Host Committee to develop fan-friendly events that thousands will enjoy come January.” On Saturday, Jan. 18, Playoff Fan Central will open at the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. The free, family-friendly experience will include games, clinics, pep rallies, special guest appearances, autograph signings and exhibits celebrating college football and its history. That day, fans can also attend Media Day, presented by Great Clips, which will feature one-hour sessions with student-athletes and coaches from each of the College Football Playoff national championship participating teams. ESPN and social media giants X, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok will be taping live broadcasts from the event. On Sunday, Jan. 19, the Trophy Trot, both a 5K and 10K race, will wind its way through the streets of downtown Atlanta. Each Trophy Trot participant will receive a T-shirt and finisher’s medal. Participants can register at atlantatrackclub.org . On Sunday evening, the Georgia Aquarium will host the Taste of the Championship dining event, which offers attendees the opportunity to indulge in food and drink prepared by local Atlanta chefs. This premium experience serves as an elevated exploration of local cuisine on the eve of the national championship. Tickets to the Taste of the Championship event are available on etix.com . Atlanta is the first city ever to repeat as host for the CFP national championship. The playoff was previously held in Atlanta in 2018. “We are honored to be the first city to repeat as host for the CFP national championship and look forward to welcoming college football fans from around the country in January,” said Dan Corso, president of the Atlanta Sports Council and Atlanta Football Host Committee. “This event gives us another opportunity to showcase our incredible city.” The College Football Playoff is the event that crowns the national champion in college football. The quarterfinals and semifinals rotate annually among six bowl games — the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Vrbo Fiesta Bowl, Capital One Orange Bowl, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential and the Allstate Sugar Bowl. This year’s quarterfinals will take place on Dec. 31, 2024 and Jan. 1, 2025, while the semifinals will be Jan. 9-10, 2025. The CFP national championship will be Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. For additional information on the College Football Playoff, visit CollegeFootballPlayoff.com . Get local news delivered to your inbox!Tradies find alleged pipe bomb in home of public servant who issued explosives threats
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Qatar tribune BerlincTypeface:> Germany has halted decisions on asylum applications from Syrian citizens following the ouster of former Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad, a spokesman for the Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) told DPA on Monday. The halt applies to more than 47,000 asylum applications from Syrians in Germany in which the civil war and current political situation in Syria would be major factors in deciding whether the applicants should receive asylum or not, the BAMF spokesman said. “The BAMF takes a very close look at the individual cases, including an assessment of the situation on the ground in the country of origin,” an Interior Ministry spokesman told journalists in Berlin. The agency has the option of deferring decisions on asylum cases if the situation in an applicant’s home country is unclear, and that currently is the case in Syria, the ministry spokesman said. (DPA) Copy 10/12/2024 10At the start of finals week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, trumpet players and vocalists waited to give their final performances of the semester in the only space available. The cold, cramped hallways of the Westbrook Music Building. The three-story building near the southwest corner of City Campus has been the headquarters of numerous choirs, dozens of instrumental ensembles and thousands of music majors since it opened nearly seven decades ago. But in recent years, as UNL opened new buildings for business and engineering students and overhauled other learning spaces on campus, the creativity and passion emerging from its outdated rehearsal halls and practice rooms was often in spite of Westbrook Music Building — not inspired by it. That will soon change. Next spring, UNL will open a modern music building at the corner of 10th and Q streets teeming with natural light, ample space for collaboration and innovation among artistic disciplines, and interwoven with cutting-edge technology unlike any other on a college campus. The music building is among the projects benefiting from a 2021 law LB 384 enacted by the Legislature to increase state and university funds for deferred maintenance projects. That summer, NU secured $400 million in municipal bonds — the largest in university history — to address an $800 million backlog of construction and renovation projects at its campuses in Lincoln, Omaha and Kearney. The NU Board of Regents later approved a plan to use $78 million in bond financing and $3 million in private funds to replace the existing building, which was built, furnished and equipped in 1967 for $1.5 million in state tax dollars. Felix Olschofka, the director of UNL's Glenn Korff School of Music, said the facility built with support from state lawmakers and private donors "will inspire students and faculty to push the boundaries of music expression and creativity like never before." The design of the new building, developed by Lincoln-based architecture firm Sinclair Hille in partnership with BNIM of Kansas City, seeks to push the boundaries on what musical education looks like in higher education. Eighty percent of the spaces inside the new facility will be exposed to natural light, including individual practice rooms where students spend hours and hours each school year. "We really wanted to expose as many of the practice rooms as possible to natural light," said Kjersten Tucker, a senior associate at Sinclair Hille, "which has a big impact on people's mental health, physical health and just overall well-being." Similar to other newer buildings on UNL's campus, such as Hawks Hall for the College of Business and Kiewit Hall for the College of Engineering, the new music building has large windows and glass doors that allow daylight in while also giving passersby a peek at the activity inside. In the new music building, a vestibule on the northeast side will open from campus into a new student lounge area — something Westbrook Music Building doesn't have — while windows on the southwest corner of the building look out onto a "porch" with views of downtown and the Haymarket. Windows, both internal and external, also allow light into various levels of the three-story building, and ceilings with "butterfly folds" help amplify the brightness, the architects said. While music buildings used to avoid windows in order to prevent sound from bleeding from one space to another, or from the outside into performance areas, modern construction has helped solve those issues, said David Quade, a principal at Sinclair Hille. The external walls of the new building are 3 feet thick, bolstered with concrete and a sound shield meant to tamp down the noise from the on-ramp to Interstate 180 just a few feet away. Inside, acoustic glass and special frame assemblies also help prevent outside sounds from coming in and inside sides from going out. The building's HVAC system was also specially designed to prevent sounds from bouncing through the air vents into rooms where they're not wanted. "All of those details are part of making sure that those acoustics stay within the space where they're intended," Quade said. That won't mean that the facility will be devoid of any sounds, Tucker added. The building was designed to let some music escape from practice and performance rooms into common areas; just not between those spaces. Three stories of practice rooms opening up onto a hallway are meant to evoke an alley in a European city, she said, where music may be spilling out of homes into a public thoroughfares. "It's not like you're going to walk through the space and not be able to hear any music," Tucker said. The music building also features three rehearsal spaces — one for large instrumental ensembles, one for choral ensembles, and a percussion/jazz space — as well as a state-of-the-art recital hall and a recording studio connected to each. Quade said each of the spaces is "tunable," that is, able to be adjusted to better reflect or absorb sound based on the needs of the performers. In the largest rehearsal space, for example, a 50foot tall room meant to accommodate the Cornhusker Marching Band, acoustic "clouds" suspended from the ceiling help absorb sound along with banners mounted to the wall that can be adjusted with the push of a button. Quade said each of the rooms also has features like custom-designed panels and walls slightly angled away from 90 degrees help reflect sound to fill the space. Get local news delivered to your inbox!
Hold your horses everyone as two new bills due to be passed in the Senate have now been blocked. Both the bill for the Golden Visa ban and a bill for fast-track squatter trials have encountered resistance in the Senate, having recently been approved by Congress. This 180-degree turnaround has come as a surprise, especially amid so much talk around how to manage the Golden Visa scheme after a ban is implemented. Now, the Senate – where Spain’s Popular Party (PP) holds an absolute majority – has approved a veto that sends the Bill on Judicial Efficiency tumbling back down to the lower house (Congress). This Judicial Efficiency Bill includes measures to enforce fast-track trials for squatter cases and the abolition of ‘Golden visas’, which has encountered resistance in the Senate, mainly due to incompetent management and organisation in the hands of the government. Most Read on Euro Weekly News Spanish banks will be forced to report every penny Southern Spain braces for Arctic front: Snow in some areas. Freezing temperatures for Spain as winter storm blasts Europe Squatter laws and Golden visa ban approved by Congress in November On November 14, the first stage of approving the two new measures seemed to be going in the right direction. It was approved by the Congress of Deputies, yet took a fatal blow when following a proposal by the PP (Partido Popular), the bill was vetoed by the Senate. According to the Spanish parliament’s Official Gazette dated December 2, this means the bill will return to Congress and they have the power to overturn the veto. Within the judicial bill, was the famous discontinuation of golden visas for investors purchasing properties worth over €500,000. Golden visas originally started under Mariano Rajoy’s leadership and their removal was planned for 2025. They have certainly materialised into a huge investment boom for the country, especially more recently. Between January and October this year, a mind-blowing 780 Golden visas were granted, with an average investment of €657,204. Since Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the termination of these visas in April, 573 permits have been issued. Amid pressures surrounding housing prices and availability, among other issues, a ban for Golden visas has been firmly on the political agenda. Regarding squatting – a huge and well-documented social problem in Spanish society recently – the legislation approved by Congress proposes handling offences of home invasion and unlawful occupation of property through a fast-track judicial procedure. This means that cases should be resolved within approximately 15 days, unlike current procedures which can be extremely lengthy and complex. Squatting law, if approved, would see illegal squatting as minor offence Plans included some tweaks to Article 795 of the Criminal Procedure Act, wherevy cases of illegal squatting would be added to the list of minor offences, rubbing shoulders with similar crimes including theft and burglary. Some have praised the move as a step forward in tackling squatting whereas others have condemned the lack of legal impetus to deal with “tenant squatting” (inquiokupación). As in the case of any situation where a rival party vetoes a leader’s proposals, some may say that this is a chance for PP to expose leading political party, PSOE for its ‘incompetence.’ After all, PP did make a song and dance about the government failing to employ “proper legislative drafting techniques” and a lack of “planning and organisation.” PP also claims that trying to approve two legislative projects surrounding the same laws and themes simultaneously, is simply haphazard. It could create “confusion, chaos, and a serious attack on legal certainty.” It has advocated for citizens’ rights, purporting that the government’s rather clumsy execution of such legislation could leave citizens disadvantaged by what it has termed a “hodgepodge of uncoordinated legislative amendments.” Read more about SpainVikings waive former starting cornerback Akayleb Evans in another blow to 2022 draft classNone
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