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Upholding democratic traditionsThe British Institute of Management and Technology (BIMT Campus), a leading private education institute, secured two prestigious awards at the Entrepreneur Awards – Western Province 2024, organised by the Ministry of Industries, the National Chamber of Commerce, and the National Enterprise Development Authority. The award ceremony was held at the BMICH in Colombo, and it celebrated entrepreneurship across multiple sectors. The awards were received by BIMT’s Chief Executive Officer Farshath Jamal, Finance Manager Afzan Nazar, and Student Recruitment Manager Gugan Santhirasekaram.Harris scores 16 as South Carolina Upstate beats Western Carolina 74-68Jaylen Blakes, Maxime Raynaud and Oziyah Sellers combined for 35 points in a 47-point, first half explosion Saturday afternoon and Stanford ran away from California for an 89-81 Atlantic Coast Conference road win in Berkeley, Calif. Raynaud and Blakes finished with 20 points apiece for the Cardinal (8-2, 1-0 ACC), who won their first ever game in ACC competition. Andrej Stojakovic had a game-high 25 points and Jovan Blacksher Jr. added 14 for the Golden Bears (6-3, 0-1), who dropped their second in a row after a 6-1 start. Playing just its second true road game of the season, Stanford scored 14 of the game's first 18 points and never looked back. Raynaud and Ryan Agarwal hit 3-pointers in the run. Blakes had 14 points, Raynaud 11 and Sellers 10 in the first half, which ended with Stanford in front 47-31. Cal was still down 81-65, after two free throws by Stanford's Chisom Okpara with 3:58 remaining before making a little run. Mady Sissoko converted a three-point play and Rytis Petraitis and Joshua Ola-Joseph connected on consecutive 3-pointers in a 9-0 flurry that made it a seven-point game with still 2:13 to go. It got as close as six when Stojakovic drilled a 3-pointer with 1:21 left, but Okpara and Blakes dropped in late layups to keep the hosts at arm's length. Seven of the nine Cardinal who saw action hit at least half his field goal attempts, led by Raynaud's 8-for-15 and Blakes' 7-for-13. Stanford finished 52.6 percent as a team. Both were deadly from the 3-point line as well, with Raynaud going 4-for-6 and Blakes 2-for-4. With Sellers adding 3-for-6, the Cardinal made 11 of their 23 attempts (47.8 percent) from beyond the arc. Raynaud also found time for five blocks, while Agarwal and Aidan Cammann shared Stanford rebound honors with seven. Blakes complemented his 20 points with a team-high six assists and two blocks. The Cardinal registered 19 assists on 30 baskets, while Cal had just five on its 30 hoops. Agarwal and Okpara each also scored in double figures with 11 points. Facing his old team for the first time after transferring to Cal over the summer, Stojakovic shot 11-for-25. The Golden Bears finished at 42.3 percent overall and 38.1 percent (8 of 21) on 3-pointers. Ola-Joseph and Sissoko, who had 11 points, were the game's leading rebounders with eight apiece. -Field Level Media
In the dynamic world of Italian football, there is always a sense of aspiration and ambition among players to achieve greatness and lead their team to glory. For young talent Gabia, the dream of becoming the captain of AC Milan and guiding the team to success burns brightly in his heart. However, he also emphasizes the importance of respecting the current captain and working together as a cohesive unit to improve the team's performance on the Serie A standings.
What restaurants are open on Christmas 2024? Store hours for fast food places & restaurants on Dec. 25Lisa Simpson once said during an episode of “The Simpsons:” What could be more exciting than the savage ballet that is pro football? On Monday night, the entire Simpsons universe gets to experience it in a way not many could have imagined. The prime-time matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys will also take place at Springfield’s Atoms Stadium as part of “The Simpsons Funday Football” alternate broadcast. The altcast will be streamed on ESPN+, Disney+, and NFL+ (on mobile devices). ESPN and ABC have the main broadcast, while ESPN2 will carry the final “ManningCast” of the regular season. The replay will be available on Disney+ for 30 days. Globally, more than 145 countries will have access to either live or on replay. “We’re such huge football fans, and the Simpsons audience and the football audience, I feel, are like the same audience of just American families and football. And the Simpsons are so much a part of the DNA of the American family and culture that for us to, like, mush them together in this crazy video game, it’s so fun,” said Matt Selman, executive producer of “The Simpsons.” While the game is the focal point, the alternate broadcast, in some ways, will resemble a three-hour episode of “The Simpsons.” It starts with Homer eating too many hot dogs and having a dream while watching football. Homer joins the Cowboys in the dream while Bart teams up with the Bengals. Lisa and Marge will be sideline reporters. “That’s the beginning of the story, and the story continues through the entire game until Homer wakes up from his dream at the end of the game. It is like a complete story, and the NFL game will happen in between. It’s just going to be an amazing presentation with tons of surprises,” said Michael “Spike” Szykowny, ESPN’s VP of edit and animation. This is the second year ESPN has done an alternate broadcast for an NFL game. It used the characters from “Toy Story” for last year’s Sunday morning game from London between the Atlanta Falcons and Jacksonville Jaguars. “The Simpsons” has featured many sports-themed episodes during its 35 seasons. Even though “Homer at the Bat” remains the consensus favorite sports episode for many Simpsons fans, there have been football ones such as “Bart Star” and “Lisa The Greek.” There also was a Super Bowl-themed one after Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl 33 between Denver and Atlanta in 1999. Even though “The Simpsons” remains a staple on Fox’s prime-time schedule, it is part of the Disney family after their acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019. All 35 seasons are on Disney+. The show’s creators have worked with ESPN and the NFL to make sure the look and sound is definitely Simpsonsesque. The theme song is a mash-up of “The Simpsons” opening and “Monday Night Football’s” iconic “Heavy Action.” There have also been pre-recorded skits and bits to use during the broadcast featuring Simpson’s legendary voices Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, and Yeardley Smith. The telecast will be entirely animated, with the players’ movements in sync with what is happening in real-time on the field. That is done through player-tracking data enabled by the NFL’s Next Gen Stats system and Sony’s Beyond Sports Technology. While Next Gen Stats tracks where players are on the field with a tracking chip in the shoulder pads, there is skeletal data tracking and limb tracking data — which uses 29 points per player — to get closer to the player’s movements. The other data tracking will allow Beyond Sports and Disney to add special characters to the game. For example, there might be a play where Lisa catches the ball and goes 30 yards instead of Cincinnati’s Tee Higgins. “Lisa is much smaller than the rest of the players. So, in real life, the ball would go over her head, but now, with data processing, we can take the ball and make it go exactly into her hands. So for the viewer, it still looks believable, and it all makes sense,” said Beyond Sports co-founder Nicolaas Westerhof. The other major challenge is making “The Simpsons” two-dimensional cartoon characters into 3-D simulations. Szykowny and his team worked to make that a reality over the past couple of months. “That’s a big leap of faith for them to say, hey, we trust you to make our characters 3-D and work with it. Our ESPN creative studio team has done a wonderful job,” Szykowny said. Lisa, Krusty, Nelson, Milhouse and Ralph will be with Bart and the Bengals; while Carl, Barney, Lenny and Moe join up with with Homer and the Cowboys. The broadcast will also feature ESPN personalities Stephen A. Smith, Peyton Manning and Eli Manning. ESPN’s Drew Carter, Mina Kimes and Dan Orlovsky will call the game from Bristol, Connecticut, and also be animated. They will wear Meta Quest Pro headsets to experience the game from Springfield using VR technology. For Kimes, being part of the broadcast and being an animated Simpsons character is a dream come true. She is a massive fan of the show and has a framed photo of Lisa Simpson — who she said is a personal hero and icon — as part of her backdrop when she makes appearances on ESPN NFL shows from her home in Los Angeles. “I didn’t have any input, and I didn’t see anything beforehand, so I wasn’t sure if it would look like me, but it kind of does, which is very funny,” said Kimes, who drew Simpsons characters when she was a kid. “To see the actual staff turn me into one was a dream.” Even though the Bengals (4-8) and Cowboys (5-7) have struggled this season, Selman thinks both teams have personalities that appeal to “The Simpsons” universe. “We were just so lucky also that the Cowboys are sort of like a Homer Simpson-type team, American team, and Mike McCarthy might be a Homer-type guy, one might imagine,” he said. ”And then you have Joe Burrow on the other side who is a cool young, spiky-haired, blonde bad boy -- he’s like Bart. And that fits our character archetypes so perfectly. “If Homer is mad at Bart and has a hot dog dream while watching ’Monday Night Football’, and then it’s basically McCarthy versus Burrow, Homer versus Bart, and that’s the simple father versus son strangling — Homer strangling Bart dynamic that has been part of the show for 35 years. I don’t know if that would have worked as well if it was like Titans versus Jacksonville. We would have found something. We would have made it work.” AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl
Udinese's recent form had been a cause for concern for their fans and management alike, as they had struggled to find their rhythm and secure positive results. However, in a dramatic turn of events, Udinese managed to turn their fortunes around in their latest match, showcasing a determined and resilient performance that saw them secure a vital victory.We have seen it for four years: President Joe Biden’s administration exists for the sole purpose of hurting ordinary Americans. On Monday, the Biden White House commutations for 37 of the 40 criminals who faced the death penalty following federal convictions, including Brandon Council, a career criminal who murdered two bank tellers, 59-year-old Donna Major and 36-year-old Kathryn Skeen, during a 2017 robbery in South Carolina. Tuesday on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” Danny Jenkins, Major’s husband, characterized Biden’s decision as “absolutely disgusting.” Jenkins appeared via video conferencing, along with Major’s daughters, Heather Turner and Katie Jenkins. With a Christmas tree in the background, Major’s three grieving family members spoke with host Todd Piro. “I am upset that this is even happening,” Turner said, “that one man can make this decision without even talking to the victims, without any regard for what we’ve been through, what we’re going through.” “I’m completely hurt, frustrated and angry,” she added. Danny Jenkins noted that his late wife did not receive the same consideration gave to her killer. “She was shown no mercy at all,” the grieving husband said. “This man [Council] walked into the bank, never said two words to her, shot her three times in total, went and shot her co-worker, Katie Skeen, as well, who was totally defenseless and unaware that anything was happening.” “It’s just beyond me that, that, it’s — I can’t even believe that this is actually happening,” he added. Danny Jenkins then rightly accused Biden of carrying out a “political scheme.” Donna Major was gunned down along with Kathryn Skeen in 2017 by Brandon Council during a bank robbery. Joe Biden just commuted Council’s sentence for political reasons. Council’s victims never got mercy. And Biden never discussed his pardon with the families of the victims. — Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) In fact, the president made no secret of the commutations’ political aspect. On Tuesday, Democratic Rep. of Massachusetts congratulated Biden for taking a principled stand against capital punishment. As Danny Jenkins noted, however, Biden chose not to commute death sentences for three of the 40 convicted criminals. Those three had all engaged in either terrorism or what the White House statement called “hate-motivated mass murder.” By “hate-motivated mass murder,” the White House meant murderers who target victims based on skin color or another group characteristic. In other words, Biden unilaterally decided which murderers deserved mercy and which did not, and he did so by using the only criterion that matters to race-obsessed leftists. Moreover, every reasonable person must conclude that the president lacks the capacity to make such decisions. “Joe Biden certainly has no convictions,” Danny Jenkins said. “He’s a senile old man. He can’t tie his shoes, I wouldn’t think, if you could see him in person.” Biden, of course, has done this sort of thing in the past. For instance, he insulted the families of the 13 service members killed during his administration’s botched 2021 withdrawal. He also showed far more concern for the who murder American women and girls than he did for the families of those victims. No one should think of these things as accidents. In fact, Biden only occupies the presidency because his toward ordinary Americans reflects that of the broader ruling class. Thus, no one should be surprised that Biden — or more likely, those who have made decisions in Biden’s name for the last four years — would pour salt in grieving family members’ wounds. We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. .
In Georgia Tech's final nonconference contest, the Yellow Jackets host Alabama A&M in Atlanta on Saturday afternoon. Georgia Tech (5-7) has yet to beat a power conference team this season, earning wins over West Georgia, Texas Southern, Charleston Southern, Central Arkansas and UMBC. Losers in four of their last five games, the Yellow Jackets were stomped at home last time out by then-No. 5 Duke, extending a concerning trend against high-major opponents this season. In its six meetings with power conference teams, Georgia Tech has been outscored by an average of 14.3 points per game. Making matters worse for head coach Damon Stoudamire's team has been the absences of Kowacie Reeves Jr. (ankle) and Luke O'Brien (foot). Reeves, who is averaging 9.3 points in six games, hasn't played since Nov. 27, while O'Brien (6.4 ppg, 4.4 rebounds per game) didn't play in the loss to Duke. "Kowacie and Luke are both seniors, they've both got experience, but you can't really dwell on it," Stoudamire said. "They're injured but I'm not going to allow that to be an excuse. I'm not going to go down that path. They're missed, obviously, but you have be a next-man-up team at times." Lance Terry leads the team with 14.8 points per game, followed by Baye Ndongo's 13.0 and Naithan George's 10.4. Saturday marks Alabama A&M's last nonconference game before SWAC play begins Jan. 4 against Arkansas-Pine Bluff. The Bulldogs (4-8) have dropped their last five games since a Nov. 23 win over Coastal Carolina. Led by AC Bryant's 13.1 points per game and Chad Moodie's 12.6, Alabama A&M is vying for what would be a monumental victory. "We're doing some things now that are going to make the other team prepare," Bulldogs coach Otis Hughley Jr. said. "And you know that you're coming out of a contest when you play us." Georgia Tech is 6-0 all-time against the Bulldogs, including a 70-49 win on Dec. 9, 2023. --Field Level MediaCreating a stunning New Year’s table setting doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. With a little creativity and these DIY tips, you can transform your table into the centerpiece of your celebration. The New Year is the perfect occasion to gather loved ones around the table and celebrate new beginnings. To make your feast truly unforgettable, a beautifully set table is essential. Here’s how you can create stunning DIY table settings that will impress your guests and set the tone for the festivities. 1. Choose a Theme Begin by deciding on a theme that complements the mood of your New Year’s celebration. Some popular themes include: Golden Glam: Think metallics, glitter, and sparkle. Winter Wonderland: Soft whites, icy blues, and frosted accents. Rustic Elegance: Natural elements like wood, burlap, and greenery. 2. Layer Your Tableware Create visual depth by layering your tableware. Here's how: Base Layer: Start with a stylish tablecloth or runner. For a chic look, use a solid color that contrasts with your tableware. Placemats and Chargers: Add texture with woven placemats or metallic chargers. Dinnerware: Stack plates of different sizes, starting with a dinner plate, followed by a salad plate, and ending with a small bowl. 3. Napkins with a Twist Napkins can be both functional and decorative. Fold them into elegant shapes or wrap them with a ribbon. Add a sprig of rosemary or a festive ornament for a personalized touch. 4. Statement Centerpiece A centerpiece can set the mood for your table. Consider these DIY options: Floral Arrangement: Combine seasonal flowers with pinecones and candles. Candle Display: Use varying heights of candlesticks and tea lights for a warm glow. Fruit Bowl: Arrange fresh fruits like pomegranates and oranges with a sprinkle of glitter. 5. Personalized Place Cards Create simple yet classy place cards for your guests. Use card stock and metallic pens to write their names. Attach the cards to mini pinecones, or place them in small decorative holders. 6. Add Festive Accents Incorporate small details to tie the look together: Fairy Lights: Drape them across the table for a magical ambiance. Confetti: Scatter metallic confetti or sequins for a celebratory vibe. Miniature Clocks: Add tiny clocks set to midnight for a whimsical New Year’s touch. 7. Incorporate Colors Wisely Stick to a cohesive color palette of 2–3 colors to avoid a cluttered look. Metallics like gold and silver pair well with almost any theme. 8. Serveware that Shines Use elegant glassware and serving dishes. Mix and match patterns for an eclectic look, or stick to a uniform style for a more polished appearance. 9. DIY Party Favors Place small party favors at each setting. These could be mini champagne bottles, sparklers, or a handwritten note wishing them a Happy New Year. 10. Final Touches Before guests arrive, ensure the table is tidy and everything is in place. Dim the lights slightly to enhance the ambiance created by your candles and fairy lights. Start the year off in style by wowing your guests with a feast that’s as beautiful as it is delicious! Stay informed on all the latest news , real-time breaking news updates, and follow all the important headlines in india news and world News on Zee News.
Shares of Kovitz Core Equity ETF ( NYSEARCA:EQTY – Get Free Report ) saw unusually-strong trading volume on Friday . Approximately 79,605 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 62% from the previous session’s volume of 49,051 shares.The stock last traded at $23.99 and had previously closed at $24.26. Kovitz Core Equity ETF Stock Down 1.2 % The stock’s fifty day moving average is $24.10 and its 200-day moving average is $22.91. The stock has a market cap of $1.18 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 26.36 and a beta of 1.00. Kovitz Core Equity ETF Company Profile ( Get Free Report ) The Kovitz Core Equity ETF (EQTY) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in total market equity. The fund is a narrow, core equity portfolio of companies believed by the adviser to be high quality and undervalued. The actively managed fund invests in large- and mid-cap companies around the globe. Featured Articles Receive News & Ratings for Kovitz Core Equity ETF Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Kovitz Core Equity ETF and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .